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The final stack of paperwork, copies, certifications, and pictures.<\/p><\/div>\n
Every time we hit a big moment, I expect something akin to the skies parting and the voice of God descending. \u00a0But instead, today I sat in the parking lot whispering fervent prayers of safe keeping and speed over my documents, I mailed my package and posed for this picture\u2026 and then I went to the grocery store. \u00a0The holy and the normal happening all together, which is just as it should be.<\/p>\n
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So what happens now? \u00a0Well, that\u2019s a good question, and one I asked my CCAI group today because I really wasn\u2019t sure. \u00a0I\u2019ve been so focused on getting our dossier done that I haven\u2019t even looked forward to what comes next. \u00a0Tomorrow by noon our package will arrive at CCAI and will be there for 9-11 business days where it will undergo three levels of critical review to check for anything we missed or mistakes. \u00a0They\u2019ll put it in a pretty red folder, mount all of our photos, and then it is sent off to China (eeeekkkk!). \u00a0Then after about a week, we are officially \u201clogged in\u201d and we do a happy, happy dance of joy. \u00a0At that point, we are waiting for our official Letter of Acceptance that indicates that we do, indeed, want to adopt Jia (we do, we do, we do, we do!!!!!!!). \u00a0From what I understand the wait for that is currently running about 2 and a half months so it\u2019s going to be a little while. \u00a0People who have been there, done that have said that this is the time to get in shape so you can lug around a toddler, get your house in order (in our case, getting Jia\u2019s room ready), get your funding in order, and basically to use your waiting time well, so that\u2019s my goal.<\/p>\n
We are one (freaking enormous) step closer to Jia and it feels pretty awesome. \u00a0We have an ending in sight, we have a clear path forward and we are ready, ready, ready.<\/p>\n
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Today was a big, big day because today I sent our dossier to CCAI – the completion of months and months of literal blood, sweat and tears. \u00a0I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s truly sunk in that it\u2019s DONE and there are no more pages in the Dossier Guide to read, no more documents to track down, Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatwalltogreatlakes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}