On Its Way, Almost...

Today was a good day for our adoption journey. We finally got to send in our dossier to our agency!!! If everything goes as scheduled, it should arrive in Utah on Monday morning, they will review, send for translation on Thursday, and then the translator will send to China on Saturday. So hopefully we will be DTC (Dossier to China) on February 10!

I can't explain how nerve wrecking it is to work on gathering documents, sending them to here, there and everywhere for signatures, seals and stamps and then to hand them over to a very young, working part-time, not really interested in the contents of the package employee to toss in a pile of mail! Oh, my aching heart! I seriously got nauseated as I left the FedEx store. At the same time there is a great release that we have taken another step in bringing Anna home.

There is a nervousness about the documents no longer being in my protection, but there is a great sigh of relief knowing that soon, we will have our documents in China, be logged in, and waiting for our Seeking Confirmation Letter, then our Travel Notice...I cannot believe we will soon see the light at the end of this tunnel. I know that the wait is still going to be hard, and I will likely get very tired of waiting for the next step, but for today - WE SENT OUR DOSSIER IN!!! and that is good.

Adoption is filled with tiny steps and huge emotions. To many it is just mailing papers, but for us, it is our daughter coming home. Praying that our dossier arrives safely in Cedar City, Utah and sending love to my Anna.