It's been a while...

Guess it's been a while since I've blogged our progress. I can say things have changed to an extent, we placed our house for sale in April of this year after finding a house we really liked that was only a mile away but on an acre lot. Our house finally sold in August and we moved the first of September. Settling in hasn't been easy, we had some issues with the house the first month or so but most of it seems to be under control now.

We have also changed our route a little with the adoption. As you know, we began this process right about two years ago, submitted our dossier to China and received a log in date of 3/22/07. Therefore, we have been waiting for over a year an a half already and from the looks of it, it doesn't appear as though we are closer to the beginning than we are to the end.

Well, shortly after the move Jason and I decided to begin looking into other alternatives. So we have researched about every country out there that does international adoptions, viewed waiting children's lists that some agencies have list online and even looked into the domestic foster-adopt program. Despite all that's out there we just couldn't find another fit for what we are looking for, program reliability and the length of the process. So back to the Internet I went again in search of waiting children lists. Low and behold I stumbled accross an agency that is here in the Midwest that has a waiting children's list that you can get temporary access to if you contact them, so that is just what I did last Wednesday. By Thursday morning I had the log in info and I jumped on. At the time they had about 90 children on their waiting list, about half of them girls. I read through many of them and was beginning to think we weren't going to find a child with minor, correctable concerns. Finally, half way through the list I saw a gorgeous little girl that is in China (yay), is 18 months old and has a rather large birthmark on her face but appears not to have any other health concerns. I immediately contacted the agency about her to learn more about her and find out how we go about adopting her if she is still available.

On Friday I received an e-mail that she is still available, meaning no one is/was inquiring about her or has sent in a letter of intent to adopt yet. I wish I could say we know more by now but we have yet to hear from the social worker we were told would be back in her office today from some time off. Needless to say I am anxious and eager to hear more. I left a message for the social worker today but of course that was after she had left the office early today - ugh. So I am crossing my fingers that we will hear from her tomorrow.

I think that updates us to the current, I'll update when I know more.

Take care!