Another Approval!

To catch everyone up on what's been happening with our journey.   For the past few months, I have been working on gathering a multitude of paperwork to complete the requirements for our dossier:  which is all the paperwork so we can be registered to adopt in another country.

The last thing I have been waiting for so our dossier can be sent off to China is our next approval called the 1-797 which officially approves our 1800-A application.  Are you confused yet?  (:   

I called to check on our status and after getting a recording most times, TODAY I talked to a real person!   She said that our 1800-A was approved yesterday.  Our official approval letter (needed to complete our dossier), is on it's way to our mailbox.  

Our petition has been accepted by our government, which is awesome news.

What's next?

It's exciting, because now we get ready for our referral.  Once our dossier packet is sent to China and reviewed, we will have a long conference call with the China team to go over our special needs openness form (which goes through all the medical needs and such that our child could potential have) and we have a detailed discussion of what our specific openness is for our child.  It will be a tough phone call, but for us, we totally trust in God to prepare us and prepare our little boy for what is best for everyone.  It may seem odd to some that we are asked to "chose our child's special need", but it's just how it has to be in this situation where the children are in orphanages with many unknowns.   We have to trust what we know we can best provide for and commit ourselves 100% to his needs and care.  

Once we are "matched' with a potential child, we have 24-48 hours in which to access his medical care needs and review it with a our medical team.  

 This is an exciting, but cautious time, as you are making a decision on who will be this child you will call your own.  Can you believe it?  Soon, we could be sharing with you a picture of this precious boy .  Amazing to think about.

We ask our friends and family to PRAY.  Pray for us as we make this decision.  Pray for all the waiting children.  Pray specifically for our little boy, that we will have peace in our hearts and know he is the one meant to be ours.  

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