Sunday, August 12, 2007

110th day and STILL WAITING!

I haven't posted for so long and so much has happened.
My friend left on Thursday to bring her little, three year old son home from China.
It is the 110th day since we sent in our letter of intent to adopt Meizi Meilin from China, who was 16 months at the time and is now 20 months old. Our social worker sent us an up-date on our dossier and letter and told us that we made it past the first review and are into the 2nd review now. I found out from another parent who works with waiting children's families that our dossier is in the matching room with the Waiting Child director in China and if he approves our dossier and match of Gao Shao Qiao (Meizi Meilin)then we should receive our Letter Of Acceptance to adopt her in a week or two.
That would add a month to travel approval which would bring us into September and then we would travel 2-4 weeks after our travel approval, which would bring us into October before we would leave for China to bring Meizi Meilin home. The wait has been indescribable and seeing parent's with the same Log in Date as us, getting their LOA and Travel approval, weeks before us is unbelievably hard!

The girl's new window went in yesterday and Scott has been staining the trim to finish the window today. We will have the shades and valance hung back up and I'm painting the shelf with the pocket-rod that goes over their window today. I'm positive all this nesting will bring on our Letter Of Acceptance this week or next. I just have to believe that and have faith that it is going to happen or I don't know how I will deal with news to the contrary.

We have to school shop for the kids supplies and a new outfit or two, back packs and shoes and we don't want to spend a cent until we are finished paying for the adoption, except for our airfare and hotel lodgings in China. Hopefully we will know soon what we will have left to pay and what kind of airfare we are looking at so we will know whether we can take Jade Lin and Kelly. Then theres the decision on what to do with Jesse. Who will he stay with or who will stay with him when he is in school? So much is still up in the air which leaves me with so much anxiety. I just have to believe it will all work out or I wouldn't be able to get up in the morning and function and go to work.
Please pray that all works out the way God has intended and we hear good news soon!

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