This is the wonderful news we've been waiting for...LOA (letter of acceptance). It is the final piece of paper sent to our agency from China. We are to sign it with our final **YES** that we want to adopt this child. We will receive it Fed-Ex tomorrow from our agency, sign it, Fed-Ex it right back tomorrow, and the agency sends it DHL to the CCAA (China Center for Adoption Affairs), who should get it by Tuesday. Then within 2-4 weeks, the CCAA issues TA (travel approval). Once they do that, we typically should fly out within 2 weeks. Soooooo, that means we could feasibly be leaving in 5-7 weeks...probably somewhere between July 4th and July 25th. We will be gone approx 15 days or so. I am so thrilled that it will be before school starts. Now, I have SO MUCH to do!! ...make reservations for our hotels, int'l flights, and our in-country travel (we will be flying from Beijing to Nanchang, then from there we'll fly to Guangzhou, then either fly or go by train to Hong Kong, then back to Chicago, and finally home to Charlotte) order our visa's, gather orphanage gifts, packing, exchanging money, ordering NEW U.S. bills (we must pay in brand new bills), converters, check travel restrictions...Oh My! and most importantly arranging who will keep Brianna, Brent, & Lidia. Blake will stay home and hold down the fort, take care of Maggie (our lab) and the fish. And of course, Bayla will be going with us. We are still hoping for an update on Brinley...maybe a new picture, or measurements. The last report I have on her is over a year old.
p.s. Blake safely arrived in Croatia...waiting to hear more from him soon!
The song playing in my car when I got the call today was, "How Great is Our God"... all I can say today is "Amen"
LOA is HERE !!!!!!!!!!
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Woo-hoo, we have our LOA's too! We might meet up in Guangzhou! Your list of things to do is great...I am still on cloud 9 about the LOA's that I can't concentrate on what I need to be doing! I'm so glad your son made it safely on his mission trip. Maybe we will all get some updates on our babies soon. Regardless, we know within the next two months or so, we'll have some "in person" updates!
I'm praising the Lord with you!
Laine
WOW that is great news....I'm so happy for your family
WOW!!!! AWESOME! I am so SOOOOO happy for you. I guess you will be leaving about a week or two after we visit! Great timing. :0) I can help you shop for your sweetheart. YIPPPEEEE! This is so cool. Hugs to you friend. I love you guys. Angel
Hey Lisa,
So great to hear about your LOA. It is so exciting. We are also with Lifeline. Karla is our social worker, and we are one of the 7 families that got their LOA's this week. What a wonderful travel group we are going to have. I saw your post on the yahoo group and wanted to check out your blog. It is great!!! I look forward to following your journey too! I just wanted to say hello and I hope that we all get our TA's soon and yes...that we travel and get back before school starts!! Either way, like Laine says...we'll have that "in person" time soon!! Have a great week! God is so good!!!
Buffi
Lisa, Laine has just given me your blogspot!! I am so excited about our LOA's. There are 7 families that are possibly traveling together!! I would love to get together & meet with you!! Please e-mail me & we can chat!
Kim
www.pintaroadoption.blogspot.com
Lisa, I was going to go up to the top & post another comment ..... but this is the top!! My Lilly is in the same Province as your Brinley!! My e-mail address is....Meohmymommy@aol.com
Blessings!
Kim
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