Family Dreams

We are keeping this little blog to let our friends and family know of our experiences as we journey towards building our family through adoption. We are hoping to adopt from China, and plan on posting any information we can to keep everyone up to date, as well as any pictures that are important. We welcome any questions or comments, and they can be left by clicking the "comments" link at the end of each post. No question is a dumb question!!! We hope you enjoy our journey as much as we plan to.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Dossier to China!!!









As of Sunday, we are officially Dossier to China. This is the next step in our journey to our Peanut. Our dossier (file) with all of our information goes off to the Chinese Center of Adoption Affairs, and now we wait to be logged into the system. Because our file was hand delivered by our Adoption Facilitator (FOI --Thanks Yulin!!!) we don't really have a know time frame on how long it will take to get into the system. Could be as early as a week, could be as long as 2 months or more. But, whatever it is we will take it!! :)

We are waiting for a package to arrive tomorrow Xpress post from Family Outreach. We were told by another family who has adopted that there will be information in the package about travelling to China, flight information etc.. We will have to wait and see what goodies will be in it, but once we have news, we will pass it on.

In the meantime, we have been quite busy with the new house, and haying. Tis the season. Dan is very excited about the new house, and took a swim in the pool tonight. I have spent the last 4 evenings scrubbing the grout on the tile floor in the kitchen. Germaphobic... well if the shoe fits, I will wear it! The house is various shades of pink (yes through out the whole house... Tom you would love it... ok maybe not). We are looking forward to painting it. It is like deja vu. We did this last year at this time with the addition and the clinic.

It will be nice to have a home for our little peanut, with children next door to play with. We are working on colours at the moment, and once we have some pictures, we will send them off.

Yahoo! DTC and a new house. Great week!