Happy Friday!

We have our LOA!!!!!!!!! I cant believe it!! I am in shock right now!!!! We hope to be traveling in 5-8 weeks to get our little girl! I cant believe we are going to have her for her 2nd birthday, Thanksgiving and Christmas!!!!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!

We waited 159 days (but who's counting) and now that it is here i am SO unprepared. There are so many things on my list that i need to do. But right now i am going to CELEBRATE!!!

no news

Still no news on our LOA. We have been waiting a total of 142 days but only 14 days since finding out our dossier was in the wrong department. So we still might have a ways to go.

In other news we received an email from our agency yesterday that Maizie's file is still locked! This is very good news. Our agency said all along that they had no reason to believe that her file would become unlocked but couldn't tell us for sure. I feel like i can sleep a little easier knowing that she is still going to be our little girl...someday.

Another Pity Party

If you don't want to hear about another pity party don't read on.
This week was another really bad week. On Tuesday my mom called to tell me my Uncle Greg had passed away. It happened very suddenly. He was in DC with my Aunt celebrating their anniversary. He leaves behind 2 wonderful children Bertalina 18 and Matty who is 12. My Uncle played a big roll in our decision to adopt. Their 2 children are adopted from Guatemala. Bertalina came home first. She was about 5 or 6. I still remember the first time i met her. She was a little peanut. She had just gotten out of the pool and had a towel wrapped around her. She was the cutest little thing. I instantly fell in love and new at that moment that some day i was going to adopt too. I am so sad that Maizie will never get to meet him. He was always full of life and loved his children more then life. He would sometimes get these crazy ideas. He retired just a few months ago and decided in his retirement he was going to pan for gold! He owns a log cabin in northern New York which has a stream running through the property that he thought would be a good place to start. He will be greatly missed.

I thought with the bad news on my Uncle passing surely that would mean we would get some good news and get our LOA. Well my new agency called on Thursday with even more bad news. When our dossier went over to China our old agency never attached out LOI so China didn't know we already had a referral. So for the past 128 days our dossier has been sitting in the wrong department. That's right I said THE WRONG DEPARTMENT!!!!! Its now in the right department but we are back to being on day 1. 128 days down the drain. 128 days all for nothing. I had asked our old agency several times to check on our LOA to make sure everything was ok. They always came up with some song and dance on why that was a bad idea. As it stands right now we are back to square 1. China does know about our situation and there is a chance that they could take pity on us and give us our LOA very soon but China does what they want when they want so our agency said not to expect that. Most likely we will have to wait the normal 2-3 months to get out LOA. Followed by another 4-6 weeks for our travel approval and now we might not be traveling until the end of the year. I know i can survive the wait...well at least i think i can but it breaks my heart to know that Maizie spent and extra 128 days in an orphanage when she could have spent that time at home with us.

Ok Pity party over...for now at least. It's 4th of July and despite our bad week we are going to have a family cook out (my brother is flying in tonight) and then its off to the fireworks.

Happy 4th of July!!!!