Six months later...

Six months ago we oficially began our adoption process with acceptance of our application and orientation with our agency. Six months later our paperwork is complete and made it through a critical review with our agency. We passed with flying colors and according to someone at our agency, she hasn't seen to many dossiers that were done correctly. So maybe all those hours I poured over every little detail paid off! Our dossier is now in Colorado and is being translated by the Colorado office and officially mounted according to China's requirements. That will take between two and three weeks and then it is off to China. I will be notified of our DTC (dossier to china) and then hopefully shortly thereafter we will have an LID (Log In Date) with China Center for Adoption Affairs! Yeah, we will be celebrating that day with some Chinese food! After that, we will settle in for what is to be expected as a very long wait. Currently the wait is fourteen months from your LID to getting your referral. It is expected to go up to eighteen months and honestly, could even go higher. But will will wait because we only want everything to happen in God's timing, not ours.