We received our referral acceptance paperwork from America World and the Chinese Center of Adoption Affairs on Tuesday. We signed them and overnighted them back to America World on Wednesday. We're working on an addendum to our home study concerning special needs children, which An Quin Shu (Mary Elisabeth) has. We'll get that submitted to US Immigration before we travel and we'll be good to go.
Luckily, we've also got our finances set for the adoption, which is a relief in itself!!! So, hopefully, it won't be long until we had to China and bring home our little China doll for everyone to see.
As far as the trip, we've talked to several people about their trips to China. In fact, there is one family in China right now getting their second daughter. We were supposed to travel with them if we had both stayed in the regular program and not gotten into the waiting child program.
Here is their blog
http://emmajune.blogspot.com/
Then another person we know recently returned from China with her baby girl. She was able to give us some good insight on what to expect and what to bring. Here is her blog
http://countingdowntograce.blogspot.com/
We'll be updating the blog some as we get ready to go. And we'll update while we're in China. We've ordered a small laptop computer to take with us and a point and shoot digital camera. But when we get home, I'm going to break out the film camera, which means I've got to buy a film battery for my Canon EOS A2 camera. I want Mary Elisabeth to be able to have negatives and prints for when she gets older. It think it is a nostalgia thing for me. Both of our parents had negatives and prints. And we'll get plenty of prints made from our digital files...I just mainly want the negatives. It's just too bad that the new Wal-Mart in Lonoke doesn't process film on its' 1-hour machines but luckily Cabot still does!!!
Take care
Mark and Linda
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