Timeline to Grace · September 22, 2008
Flights are booked!
December 15, 2008
We ARE leaving Dec. 24th!  Praise God, it is our time!  Shuangshuang, we're coming!!!  This will be your last Christmas without your forever family!
TA!!!
December 12, 2008
We received an email from our agency coordinator overnight.  Our TA is on it's way!!!!  She's aiming for a Consulate appointment of Jan. 7th, which works us back to having to be in province on Dec. 28, which means we will have to leave about the 24th!!  That's 12 days!!!

Praise God!!!  We serve an awesome God!
Day 125----LOA!!!!!!!!!!!
November 15, 2008
We received our LOA via DHL this morning!  Praise God!  We signed it, sent it back FedEx overnight, morning delivery to Xaioqing.  She received all 5 of the LOAs back on Monday (11/17/08) so she was able to put them on their way back to China Monday afternoon!  Now we wait again, this time for TA.  This wait is much shorter.  Right now the typical wait is about 3 weeks.  Then you usually travel about 2 weeks after TA.  If you're adding this up, that could put us in China for Christmas!
Day 82
October 02, 2008
and still waiting....
LID
July 16, 2008
We heard from Xiaoqing today.  Our dossier was logged in on July 14, 2008!!  Now we wait for our LOA (letter of acceptance).  This has been taking anywhere from 60-120 days... who knows!?  Although I did hear of a numberof them only taking about 70 days right now.  That would be great!!