Well, this is my first attempt at writing a blog entry about our adoption journey. Before anyone asks, no, we are not naming our child "Little Maple", it's just a term that my husband and I came up with. We have picked out a name for her but we refer to her as "Little Maple" because in Judaism you're not supposed to talk about a child by name when no child exists (yet), hence the uniqueness of her 'name'.
We started the process of adopting a child from China back in February (on the 1st to be exact). After three interviews with our adoption practioner, filling out forms and being fingerprinted, etc., she completed our home study in May and it was sent in to our agency . They reviewed our homestudy and it was sent on to the Ministry of Child and Youth Services so that we could move forward with the process.
Today we got a phone call from our agency telling us that we got our Ministry approval! We can officially begin assembling our dossier and send it in.
We were approved in nine weeks, which isn't too bad. Right before our homestudy was sent to the Ministry, the Ministry had added more staff and cut down the wait time from 10-12 weeks to 8-10 weeks.
We're going to be feverishly finishing various forms, assembling pictures, and other documents over the weekend so we can hopefully send it in to them on Monday. After that it will get translated and sent over to China. Right now I don't want to estimate when we're going to have our paperwork over there or *gasp* a LID. I'll gladly take this one day at a time for now (famous last words)...
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