Sunday, October 5, 2014

Here We Go! We're DTC!

So.... I've been waiting to start this blog until now. This blog is dedicated to our adoption process. We're pursuing the adoption of a special needs little girl from China. We are SO excited!

We've been working on paperwork, governmental approval, etc. for our adoption for several months now. However, on Friday, October 3rd, we were finally DTC -  which means "dossier to China".  The dossier is all of our collected paperwork and approvals. Therefore, all of our paperwork is now in China. Whew!

The next step will be for us to get our LID - "Logged in Date" notice. That will mean our dossier has been entered into the Chinese "system". That will be a HUGE milestone.... because, theorectically, we could be matched with our daughter anytime after that. We still expect it to be at least several months more until that happens - but it can't happen until we get our LID status.

So... I'll be keeping a record here of our process - the journey to our daughter! :)