Saturday, February 21, 2009

Paper Pregnancy Phase

This is the process where you began to turn your paperwork in. There were fingerprints required. Police clearance needed. Homeland Security approvals. A social worker had to come and complete a home study on our family, insuring that we were loving and capable people. Most of the documentation had to be notarized, certified and authenticated. We started in 2006 and officially our dossier was accepted by Feb. 2007. The Chinese government had every conceivable document on us.

Then we began to wait and wait and wait. While we waited, China received bad publicity on wheat gluten in pet food. Then toys had to be recalled because lead was found that surpassed the safety levels. We continued to wait. We had to renew a certain document. More money. Then a terrible and tragic earthquake occurred in China. Then there was this thing called the "Olympics" that preoccupied the entire nation of China. More waiting. Our home study had to be renewed. Some more money. We were waiting so long, we had forgotten we were waiting.

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