DOSSIER TO CHINA!!!

Oh My Gosh!!! I can hardly believe this! We just opened our mailbox today to find an envelope from Bethany Grand Rapids. Opening the envelope and expecting nothing but another bill for the latest fees, we were stunned to read the following words: "Your dossier was sent to China on August 29, 2007". I cannot begin to describe the overwhelming joy that went through me and Laura upon receiving this news. This tiny step may mean little-to-nothing to anyone else, but the DTC is incredibly important to us. It means that hopefully within a few weeks, we will have the pinnacle date to this point in our process - wait, can it actually be, yes, it is - our Log-In-Date (LID)! Having begun our official adoption application process with Bethany in January, this little bit of good news has been an extremely long time in coming, and it lets us know that we have not been forgotten on this long road to Raina. We are simply bursting! We want to send a huge "Thank You" to all who have shown such interest and supported us in prayer and friendship up to now. We don't pretend that the waiting will get any easier - in fact, we know that with a projected 2 to 3 years until referral, each month that passes by will become all the more excruciating. Still, this small "next step" means just about the whole world to us right now, and we intend to enjoy the glorious feeling of knowing that we are finally DTC!!! Yeeaaahhhh!