I knew it...

When I was in Las Vegas, Leonard and I were discussing the Swine Flu...would it affect adoption travel.

Rumor has it. Saw there is a rumor on a yahoo group from an agency they have been hearing rumor that all adoption travel will be haulted due to the flu.

What else could happen?

I guess I should be selfish and state that maybe it will be blown over by the time we would travel anyway...unless it pushes everyone back.

Can you tell I am negative about our chances of traveling even in August?

No news yet...

Other people are getting their LOA's. Not us....

I know it is coming.

I just have to patient.

But that is NOT IN MY BLOOD! Honestly.

I gave my husband a time line to ask me to marry him...I never really told him that but it was there. (I really would have waited longer...but you get the picture. I would have married him after our first date...which was a blind date :)!!!)

I am just not a patient person. God is really trying to teach me something.

As horrible as this sounds, there are some days where I don't even think about the adoption. It was been going on SO long that it is just normal to be waiting.

Is that as profound to others as it is to me? "It is normal to be waiting?" Hhmm...

What to get...

I am looking for something special to give to Noah's foster mom. I can actually meet her when I get Noah.

What do you tell her? What do you ask her? She has been Noah's family for the last at least 2 years (longer than we have had Kaycee.)

I have never put it into that perspective before...Noah is 2 months younger than Kaycee.

Yikes. That is hard to swallow.

Anyway, I am thinking about maybe a locket or something. I don't know.

If you have any suggestions, I am open to whatever!!!

I hope she has email. I would love to keep in touch with her!

Silence is NOT golden!

Nothing so far. Nothing at all. Oh well.....I thought since we are hearing anything about him, maybe I would just post pictures of him. Isn't her cute?

You would think I would be doing my homework...but no...I would rather post pictures of our little boy!

Reworked paperwork at the agency this morning

Due to weather, we didn't have the internet ALL WEEKEND. Guess what I needed ALL WEEKEND? The internet.

Leonard had school, I had school but more importantly, I needed the internet to get our reworked paperwork to our agency. We finally got it late yesterday!!!!

All of the paperwork got there...finally.

Hoping and praying this is it. It is day 61 today!

Another bump??

Yes of course. It think this has to have been one of the bumpest roads ever...

Ugh!

Today, I open my email and there is an email from my agency!! "China Adoption." I think to myself as my heart is racing - our LOA!!! It is here!!

I open it.

Nope, not the LOA. CCAA has asked that we now go to the online system. We are having to move our paperwork online. All of this paperwork has been sent to China, meaning it needs to be recreated here.

Supposedly it will not lengthen anything, however, there have been many families with LOA's already who were logged in at the same time. Will it add time? I guess we will never know, really. Because no matter what, we have to do it and the LOA time is our time.

Ugh!

The LOA watch

I am getting a litte nervous...don't tell my husband!

We are on day 57 of the LOA watch...after reading Lynn's comment to my post earlier, there are now 4 LOA's I have seen that have come in on days 58, 59, 59, and 61. But then there is the one that was blown out of the water and came in at day 107. Who knows?

So the question is, do I get the boys there passports because maybe they will be able to come with me? Good grief...up again, down again.

One thing is for sure, I need to get things going on my side of the ocean.

YIKES!!!!!

It is almost funny

If you go to our other blog for our family, you can go back and see what issues we have had with our paperwork. It has been all along.

Now there is another one. This time it is will the parenting classes. We have one left. It will be on May 16th.

Which means I am now praying that we DON'T get our LOA until May 15th. All of our parenting classes have to be done before our LOA can be sent back to China. Even if we get our LOA back before May 16th, the LOA cannot go back to China until our classes are done.

Can you believe it?

Me either.

Noah

I had a blog dedicated to our journey to Kaycee, so I thought I would do the same for Noah. Noah is our son, who is still waiting in China.

Our journey to Noah began way back in December of 2007. Yes, it really did.

I belong to a China adoption yahoo group, where a mass email was sent out about a little boy, who was not quite 2 that had bilateral microtia. It peeked my interest, as that is the same condition as Kaycee's.

I emailed everyone on the list and told them I would be happy to talk with them about this condition as I had a little experience with it.

No responses.

I emailed the agency and told them the same thing.

They were very thankful.

I waited. No emails.

I prayed for this little boy to find his family.

I emailed the agency again. This time with the question of "Has anyone contacted you yet?"

No, was the answer.

I prayed again for this little boy to find his family.

In February, I emailed again. He was still waiting.

I asked God to open the heart of my husband for this little boy. I believed we were his family.

In March, we sent our LOI - asking China if we could adopt this little boy.

The rest as they say is history. It has been a long battle of getting our paperwork done, all of the approvals done, etc. etc....

But here we are, on day 42 of our wait for LOA.

And here is Noah, on day 1206 of waiting for a forever family.