Welcome!

Welcome! I have been introduced to this awesome manner of communication by a new friend, (I'll explain later). This blog will be John's and my way of communicating to our family and friends, our journey of hope, the journey we are now taking to bring our daughter Renee home from China. It will also be a way to express the happiness, sadness, frustration, joy, gratitude, etc. as this journey progresses.
It began....September 2005, when after much prayer,we both agreed to complete the adoption application and send it off to LaVida. We then began the "let's get our dossier together" hustle.
Our dossier is the packet of information that the Chinese Center For Adoption Affairs (CCAA) uses to assign us a child. It is documents in duplicate, triplicate and sometimes quadruplicate. As you can see above, it is a lot of documents!
Well the good news is, after 6 months of gathering, sending, receiving, and waiting, our dossier was finally complete and sent off to China on 3/06/06.
So that is our official "DTC" (dossier to China) date. Now the real waiting begins