I thought I would share a little bit of our story for those of you who have never heard it. It all started in December of 2005 when I felt in my heart to look into the idea of adoption. Before this time I never considered the idea since we had our boys, we were very content and I had many reasons why it wouldn't work for us.......but that's what I thought ("for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord). When I mentioned the idea to Erik, he right away said "let's do it".....for adoption has always been on his heart; before we even knew each other. So, in January of 2006 we began the "boat-load" of paper work and in October we mailed our dossier (papers) to China. I can honestly say that China knows everything about us!! Our dossier was then logged into their system on November 6th! We call this date our LID. China's government assigns us the child and right now that is taking up to 22 months. So...now we just wait.
Well, of course there is so much more to the process, but I think I summed it up in a nut shell. We wanted to start this blog so that friends and family can follow our journey to Claire. But for now, enjoy the pictures and stories of the boys and hopefully soon we'll have news about Claire.
Well, of course there is so much more to the process, but I think I summed it up in a nut shell. We wanted to start this blog so that friends and family can follow our journey to Claire. But for now, enjoy the pictures and stories of the boys and hopefully soon we'll have news about Claire.
Enjoy!
