China LID - 3 YEARS!

Well today we've been officially logged in to adopt from China for 3 YEARS! Whoa. I'm not really following/posting about referrals anymore because, well, it's a little overwhelming. And of course I am focused right now on our Ethiopia adoption. Three years have seem to have flown by, but at the same time dragged, if that makes any sense. I really don't know what the future of our China adoption is right now. We'll see what happens once we get back from Ethiopia with our first daughter. Ironically, China has currently referred up to LIDs of April 17th, 2006, so only 365 more LIDs to go.. LOL

Speaking of the Ethiopia adoption, we're just waiting for the homestudy agency to mail the homestudy to us so we can send it to CCAI. Not sure how long after that it takes to get on the waiting list but I am getting a little anxious to get on it already! I hope we get the homestudy this week!

Home Study is DONE!

WOOHOO!! I'm just waiting for the HS agency to get it notarized and mail it to me!!! Then I can send our agency the rest of the IAN docs and the home study and that's it!! Soooooo close to getting on the waiting list!!!

I finished another half-finished project from probably a couple years ago.. lol



I'm actually a crocheting fool these days.. lol ... and I started crocheting another one too. And last year I made a wooden dog food holder. Well I actually made 2 back then, the first one was too tall for Dexter (the bigger dog) at the time, so I never stained it and built a smaller one. Well now Dexter is big enough for it, so stained it today and will give Yoshi the smaller one, which I hope isn't too tall for him and Dexter can use the taller one now. Almost finished with that one, have to polyurethane it still. Then another half-finished project finished! This is a picture of it I took last year.


It's so funny because I am on this kick to finish all these projects all of a sudden. Maybe it's kind of a nesting thing or something.. LOL Whatever it is I hope it sticks around because I have a bunch of less fun projects to do too, like patching the holes in the wall a certain puppy put in them last year! I think he's finally done chewing on things inside the house! He's moved on.. now he's into destroying my backyard! But who can get mad at that face???

Dossier Passed!

Got an email from our agency (CCAI) today that our dossier (minus the homestudy) passed critical review!! Our homestudy is still being reviewed by IAN so once we hear back about that the social worker can get all that stuff together and get it to us so we can send it back to CCAI for everything to go off to IAN. Should hear something next week I hope!

Ironically, next Saturday (17th) will be 3 years officially logged in with China. I hope to be celebrating by sending off my final (Ethiopia) homestudy to the agency by then!!!!! LOL

Dossier is in CO!

Yesterday I sent off all our Dossier documents, except for the home study report, including 2 sets of copies to our agency!!! The homestudy report is in final review at the agency. Once that is done and our social worker gets it printed and notarized I can send that back to the agency and hopefully get on the waiting list after they send everything to get authenticated and then off to Ethiopia!!! I had the rest of the dossier docs completed, sitting here since Monday and was just itching to get rid of them! This will also give the agency opportunity to review everything to see if anything needs to be corrected, which I hope nothing will need to be. I had previously sent the agency some of the documents to review as we were going along so I think we should be good.

I'm starting to feel a little anxious now.. haha I want sooooo bad to get on the list and to move on the next stage of waiting, as odd as that sounds. Let's hurry up and get on the list so we can wait some more!!! lol