My womb is in China

We have had an exciting day in our adoption journey! Here are some highlights so far:

February 15, 2007 - Information Seminar with our agency
August 29, 2007 – Agency application approved!
November 10, 2007 – Agency orientation (learn about how to complete our dossier)
November 19, 2007 – 1st meeting with our social worker for our home study
December 13, 2007 – 2nd meeting with our social worker
January 17 & 18, 2008 – got our blood work done
April 10, 2008 – Fingerprints taken with USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services)
August 16, 2008 – Got I-797 (approval to adopt from China) from USCIS!
August 29, 2008 – Dossier sent to main agency office for translation
September 5, 2008 – Dossier mailed to China!
September 8, 2008 – Our agency representative in China hand delivered our dossier to CCAA (the China Center of Adoption Affairs)!!!

YAY!!! It is SO exciting to think that our dossier (all of our family photos & all of the papers I’ve been gathering for the past year, filled with the hopes of our future daughter) is now in China, across the world. It is thrilling. I just told Justin my womb is in China!