My mind tends to swirl with life and logistics and dreams. It's my
personality. I have a hard time narrowing down to one thing at a time.
The intensity of my angst and hope for our adoption surfaces
the most right now. It's sort of like the last trimester of pregnancy, when you
know you still have to function like a normal person and do normal
things, but all you feel like doing is dreaming and praying and
protecting - and worrying.
It's consuming.
I'm a person of projects. Sometimes it helps to spill some of it out into the tangible.
So, I spilled a little into a video. It sort of replays pieces of our waiting.
This song brings up images in my mind, so I tried to put them into a project.
(There will be a sequel when the time comes.)
One Step Closer - The First Thousand Years
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
LID - One step closer
Our agency sent our dossier of adoption paperwork Friday, August 5th.
We tracked the package all weekend.
It was delivered at 9:12pm (our time) Sunday night - just as we began our family prayer time. :)
Today, we found out our official Log In Date (LID) with the China Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption is 8/9/16.
That is an important date in this process.
Now, that all of our approved paperwork is logged in, we have completed all the preliminary work we can. The LID is also one of the ways we are "ranked" or "labeled" on the waiting list.
The next step will be a referral - We will get a phone call from our agency. They will call us to discuss a child, and then follow up with an email including all the pics and records they have.
We will then officially request to adopt the child.
At that point, we will complete paperwork to specifically adopt her and prepare to travel.
We will travel 2-3 months after the referral.
The time frame now is very hard to predict. There are so many variables it's difficult to know when we might receive a referral.
Some of the variables:
-Waiting Child Program Acceptance - (ours was 4/1/16)
-LID - (8/9/16)
-Timing and number of children whose files are ready for adoption
-Waiting Child Program - special needs program which means children
are also matched based on severity/type of special needs
Prayer sustains us through the unknown, because God is sovereign. I am so thankful that I can put all the details, the worry, and our sweet girl in His hands.
I am so ready to hold her and protect her. God is holding her now, and He will bring her to our arms.
Trusting Him is my only peace.
Thank you for your prayers!
One step closer.
We tracked the package all weekend.
It was delivered at 9:12pm (our time) Sunday night - just as we began our family prayer time. :)
Today, we found out our official Log In Date (LID) with the China Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption is 8/9/16.
That is an important date in this process.
Now, that all of our approved paperwork is logged in, we have completed all the preliminary work we can. The LID is also one of the ways we are "ranked" or "labeled" on the waiting list.
The next step will be a referral - We will get a phone call from our agency. They will call us to discuss a child, and then follow up with an email including all the pics and records they have.
We will then officially request to adopt the child.
At that point, we will complete paperwork to specifically adopt her and prepare to travel.
We will travel 2-3 months after the referral.
The time frame now is very hard to predict. There are so many variables it's difficult to know when we might receive a referral.
Some of the variables:
-Waiting Child Program Acceptance - (ours was 4/1/16)
-LID - (8/9/16)
-Timing and number of children whose files are ready for adoption
-Waiting Child Program - special needs program which means children
are also matched based on severity/type of special needs
Prayer sustains us through the unknown, because God is sovereign. I am so thankful that I can put all the details, the worry, and our sweet girl in His hands.
I am so ready to hold her and protect her. God is holding her now, and He will bring her to our arms.
Trusting Him is my only peace.
Thank you for your prayers!
One step closer.
Friday, August 5, 2016
DTC!
All of our paperwork is flying to China!!!!
This is amazing news. This is the final step - for the waiting part of the journey.
Dossier to China (DTC)
Our dossier of paperwork will be "logged in" with the China Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption (CCCWA). We will receive an official Log in Date (LID) from them.
NEXT - We wait for a phone call from our agency with a referral. The call could be any day, but we expect it to be within the next several months. It will take about 2-3 months for that next stage of paperwork, and then we will fly to China to bring her home. (I'm excited just typing those words!)
We have her bed ready to go, right next to her big sister.
We want to be ready, plus help prepare our whole family for the many upcoming transitions.
You can also see many of the little items we have been collecting for her over the last few years.
Including the cross we have always held during our family prayer time.
It's been even more special to kneel at her bed as we pray.
"Little Sis"
Please continue to pray for God to take care of all the big and little details of this process.
Even as big as our love for our little girl is, I know God's love is even bigger. He wants her home with us even more than we do. I know He is at work, and we continue to see evidence of His presence.
Please continue to pray for our sweet little girl.
I've tried to put words to this process, but I just don't have adequate words for all I see and feel.
We serve an amazing God.
I don't have words that can adequately thank you. Thank you for reading this. Thank you for the kind words, and thoughtful questions. Thank you for the smiles and "likes". Thank you for the blessing of donations.
Thank you for the prayers!! Nothing compares to the prayers.
This is amazing news. This is the final step - for the waiting part of the journey.
Dossier to China (DTC)
Our dossier of paperwork will be "logged in" with the China Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption (CCCWA). We will receive an official Log in Date (LID) from them.
NEXT - We wait for a phone call from our agency with a referral. The call could be any day, but we expect it to be within the next several months. It will take about 2-3 months for that next stage of paperwork, and then we will fly to China to bring her home. (I'm excited just typing those words!)
We have her bed ready to go, right next to her big sister.
We want to be ready, plus help prepare our whole family for the many upcoming transitions.
You can also see many of the little items we have been collecting for her over the last few years.
Including the cross we have always held during our family prayer time.
It's been even more special to kneel at her bed as we pray.
"Little Sis"
Please continue to pray for God to take care of all the big and little details of this process.
Even as big as our love for our little girl is, I know God's love is even bigger. He wants her home with us even more than we do. I know He is at work, and we continue to see evidence of His presence.
Please continue to pray for our sweet little girl.
I've tried to put words to this process, but I just don't have adequate words for all I see and feel.
We serve an amazing God.
I don't have words that can adequately thank you. Thank you for reading this. Thank you for the kind words, and thoughtful questions. Thank you for the smiles and "likes". Thank you for the blessing of donations.
Thank you for the prayers!! Nothing compares to the prayers.
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