All Done!!!

Yup can ya believe it?!?!? Our Dossier is done, completely and totally finished. I can't believe it myself! I picked up the last two documents at the post office this morning. The same ones we sent to Houston when we were in Tallahassee last Monday!! And took the whole kit-n-caboodle to the agency up in Altamonte Springs.. thanks to my wonderful boss I was able to leave early and get to their office before the traffic got bad!!
Actually I discovered yesterday afternoon that the envelope had left Houston on Monday....we never turned on the computer Monday night to check! David worked late and .. dang Dancing with the Stars was on!! So we missed it being delivered here at the house yesterday.. thus me going this morning to the post office to pick it up.

Last night after dinner we went to Office Max to make copies of everything.. We have to give the agency a set...which begs the question.. Why can't they make copies? You'd think it would be part of the fees?? who knows.. anyway it was tedious but easier with the two of us there to keep everything straight. We got the corporate rate of only 4cents a copy and made 111 copies!! not too bad!
Our Agency thinks we should have our critical review done by this Friday and should be Denver next week for Translation & Binding and soon in China.. so mid Oct for LID date. Will definitely let everyone know once we have that MAGIC date! It's all about the LID(Log in Date)..

To see what LIDs the Chinese Goverment are at goto this page.http://www.china-ccaa.org/frames/index_unlogin_en.jsp scroll down a bit and on the right under Documents Processing you see two dates.. first is the LIDs that are under first review(they do a first pass to make sure everything is in order) the second date are the LIDs they are currently matching Children to Families. As of today the date is Nov 25, 2005. So that means those Dossiers that were received in 11/05 are now being matched to a child. You can see that it's gonna be a while before we hear anything. Spoke with the Dossier gal at the agency when I was dropping off our stuff and she said that things should speed up a little bit..Nov '05 was a busy month...and typically Dec-Feb there are less Dossiers to process... then when the Olympics are in Beijing (Summer '08)we may see a slow down again.. but it was her feeling that after that things should really start moving along again. Everyone pray that the Chinese work thru all the Dossiers ahead of ours quickly so we can bring our daughter home soon!

So that's it for now. Will update the blog once it's off to Denver (our agency's main office) and then when it's off to China. Actually our agency sends it to one of their folks in Beijing who will then personally walk it over to the CCAA (China Center of Adoption Affairs) office and turn it in. Which is really cool!

Zai Jian
pronounced “zay je-an” 再见... Goodbye in Chinese.