About One Year: 2009

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Trying for a close up

I want to try to change my RQ avatar so I'm trying this as a test.

At about 2:00 p.m. today we got a call from Mary at our Agency with the news!!!

Here's her info:

Name: Gong Kang Chan
DOB: Feb. 26, 2008 - 17 months old
Currently living at the Children's Welfare Institute of Pingnan
Guangxi Province

We should have pictures soon!

Come on Referral

Today may be the day we get "the call"! Although I think our Agency waits for translations and for every "i" to be dotted and "t" to be crossed, I know from Rumor Queen that referral calls are being made.

Can't wait to share the joy with everyone. FYI, my Rumor Queen name is "Firsttimemom".

WOO-HOO! Come on phone call!!!

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I guess first off I should explain the title "about one year". We started trying to build a family in 2004 and thought that we'd have our first child in "about one year". Things happened, plans changed and we started the process of an adoption from China. When we began, things were moving very quickly and we were told by our agency that if we were diligent about completing our paperwork quickly that we would be home with our newly adopted child in "about one year". Our dossier was logged in to the CCAA (which is China's central adoption authority) on 3/21/06. By then the slowdown had started so we were told that instead of the 6 month wait from log in that we originally were told, that we'd have our child home in "about one year".

Each month that passed with little or no referrals happening made me more convinced that China's adoption program either wasn't going to happen at all, or would take a very long time. But I was consistantly told that this slowdown was an anomoly and that we'd have our child home in "about one year".

So eventually I became convinced that our path must be elsewhere so we looked into switching our plan. We started the process of adopting from Vietnam as a "concurrent adoption" to China. We completed all our paperwork very quickly and got logged in to Vietnam on 3/20/07 ... exactly 1 day short of a year after our dossier was logged in to China.

Thankfully that adoption actually took "about one year"! And in January 2008 we brought home our wonderful son Ben.

Now, 3 years and 4 months to the day of our China LID of 3/21/06, referrals are starting for our date. That was one heck of a long year.

About One Year

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Trying for a close up

Here's our girl!

We have a daughter!!!

Come on Referral

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