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I'm still here!  The adoption process has been slowly moving forward, though it might be hard to tell from the posting I've been doing lately.  We are now in the 'wait for approval' stage.  Which means we send paperwork to some entity. And wait for them to send us back an approval.  Then we send more paperwork to a different entity. And wait for them to send us back an approval.  From here forward, there is not much more for us to do but wait for permission to fly to China and pick up our new daughter.  That could still be six months out, so in the meantime we wait.

While we wait, we have moved house, leaving California in late April and moving to the beautiful state of Oregon.  We are settling into our new house and already have furnished a bedroom just for Faith.  The move necessitated a home study update and we were fortunate to find an agency nearby that was able to provide the update very quickly for us.  With that and additional clearances from the state of Oregon, we are very close to having our dossier ready to send to China.  Good thing, too, as our six month deadline for getting it there is in June!

Early in the process our agency discouraged us from sending a care package to Faith, and to be honest I don't think she yet knows she's got a family waiting for her.  I am hoping that once the dossier is sent we will get permission to send her at least a letter and photos, so that she has some time to 'get to know us' before we arrive.  At least it would give me something to do!