Three Year Anniversary

Today marks the 3 year anniversary of our dossier being "logged in" to the Chinese system.

When we first started this process it was taking 6 months from being logged in until you received news of your child....by the time we sent our dossier that was up to 8-10 months...and now we have hit 3 years.

Happy 3rd anniversary to my darling batch buddies!! We have all been waiting so, so long (P and I are not the only ones in our batch who have been waiting 7 years or more for our children!!).

BRING ON THE BABIES!!!!

Txx

Soon....very soon.....

Rumour has it that referrals have started to arrive...

I am numb..having trouble getting a full lung of air, and my head is spinning. literally.

Our baby's details are on their way to us. They may have even already arrived on Australian soil. A little piece of him/her may be in the same city we are, only 1 hour away.

How on earth are we going to make it through the next 5-10days before we see his/her precious face?

WHEN????

When will we find out who Bug is?

SOON!!!

WE expect that referrals will start to be given to parents in the USA this week sometime - Australians generally get their phone calls telling them who their children are about a week to 10 days after phone calls are made in the States and Europe....

We will get a phone call first - that will tell us Bug's Chinese name, his/her age, the province he/she is living in, and whether he/she is in foster care (fingers crossed) or orphanage care.

Soon after this (depending on the availability of our Adoption Contract Worker) we will meet with our contact worker and go through our child's medical report and other paperwork....only AFTER we go through all of this are we given his/her photo.

Then, we gaze....for days!!

We will probably get 2 or 3 small photos, one of which will be a passport sized photo. We'll do lots of copies 'cause I think we'll wear them our pretty quickly!

T xxxx

The First Last.....

Today was the first of the lasts that I am actually consciously aware of - I am sure there have been many "lasts" recently (as in "This is the last bath I will have uninterrupted - ever!), but this was the first one I was really aware of.

My darling friend Tash came to visit from Perth and as we said goodbye yesterday she said "You know, this is the last time I will see you without having Bug in your life". There was a pause, then we BOTH lost the plot...although I think Tash was trying to pretend she had something in her eye.

The first last.....wow. I wonder what other "lasts" there will be over the next few weeks?

On the Road again.....

Here we go again....another month, another round of referrals from China...but this time WE ARE IN!!!!

Well....we SHOULD be in - given that our LID is the next day they are processing...but you never know I suppose - what if they decide to do HALF a day (she says sarcastically but with a hint of fear because China will do as they like when they like and we don't really know what they feel like doing yet this month!!).

We. Will. Be. In. Repeat after me!!!!

T xxxx