Well, other than getting our letters for fingerprinting and having done that, there's not much else going on to ease the process along any faster. The good news is that this was all done far sooner than we could have dreamed, and we are thankful for all blessings, great and small.
We have joined an e-group of families with and/or waiting for a child from Zhuhai and we're learning lots and lots. We're making new friends - people who share a common bond - and it's just wonderful. Those who have visited before post photos and we search for glimpses of our daughter. It's always such a magical moment to find her! We are connecting with other families waiting for older children - we are lucky that Ai Li will have friends to chat with on the phone and reconnect with through visits when it's possible. This is so huge. Wish it was tomorrow!
It looks as though we may travel very early in 2008. Smack dab in the middle of winter. Perhaps we won't do the China tour after all - not sure - who wants to climb the Great Wall in those temps? Not me - but we have time to make plans/change plans so it's all rather vague right now. Planning sure is fun - searching the book for cool sites to see, etc.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Wednesday, August 15th 2007
Today is part 3 of 3 for our expedited home study. Steve and I have both had our one-on-one interviews with our absolutely delightful social worker Liz, and tonight she comes to our home to see where we live, how we live, chat in an informal setting with us as a family. Think I'll do housework today!
As each day brings the reality closer and closer, we get more and more excited. Molly and Sue have 'excited jeebers' most of the time and can't help themselves from making a few purchases here and there of 'things for Ai Li', travel doo-dads, etc. As soon as we figure out how to post photos, this page will be more interesting.
Need to get our immunizations handled for travel and look into some language CD's to learn what we can.
As each day brings the reality closer and closer, we get more and more excited. Molly and Sue have 'excited jeebers' most of the time and can't help themselves from making a few purchases here and there of 'things for Ai Li', travel doo-dads, etc. As soon as we figure out how to post photos, this page will be more interesting.
Need to get our immunizations handled for travel and look into some language CD's to learn what we can.
Introduction
We are the 4 Hubers. 2 + 2 = 4. Molly and Sue met Steve and Cody - there was friendship, then love, then marriage, then poof! instant family of 4. Well, 6 years later we 'hear the call' and now we're changing the equation to 4 + 1 = 5. Our +1 is Ai Li, and she's in Zhu Hai City, China and we're doing all we can to speed up paperwork, etc. to bring her home.
2009 was the chosen year to take Molly back to China for her homeland visit when she turned 12. Well - it's happening a bit sooner. What we'll do is tour parts of China before meeting Ai Li - hopefully before her 10th birthday in March.
Most of our documents are completed. Agency has most of what they need from us, our homestudy is almost done and our I-600A has been filed at CIS. It's not so hard when you're doing, doing, doing. It's really hard when you're waiting, waiting, waiting to hear/know something.
2009 was the chosen year to take Molly back to China for her homeland visit when she turned 12. Well - it's happening a bit sooner. What we'll do is tour parts of China before meeting Ai Li - hopefully before her 10th birthday in March.
Most of our documents are completed. Agency has most of what they need from us, our homestudy is almost done and our I-600A has been filed at CIS. It's not so hard when you're doing, doing, doing. It's really hard when you're waiting, waiting, waiting to hear/know something.
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