OOT!

We are "Out of Translation!"

One of the interesting things in this world of international adoption is all of the baby steps that you have to successfully make.  We just made another exciting one.  Being out of translation (for all my not-yet adopting friends) means that China has all of our paperwork and some poor person there has had to go through all of it and translate it into Chinese.  Thankfully I didn't have to do that as all my skills right now would allow me to say would be basically "Howdy y'all, would you like some coffee?"  (Nimen hao!  Nimen yao kafei ma?)  and "Wo shi ni de mama" which may or may not be, I am your mama;  I don't believe that would get us too far.  Come to think of it, wouldn't that make adoption simpler?  Hi, I'm Tracy.  Would you like some coffee?  Great, by the way, I'm Jaden's mama.  When should I come get him.

What we are waiting for now is their response that seeks confirmation that we really are ready to bring Jaden home.  Two ladies on facebook  told me that they got their letters 19 days after being OOT (I chose not to notice the one that was OOT for 50 days and still doesn't have hers) and so this step could be soon.  If it did come by mid-October we could travel by Christmas.  Tiny, tiny chance of that as China starts a long holiday today but a girl can dream.  :)

Blessings y'all and if you want some coffee, let me know ;)

DOSSIER TO CHINA!!!

We've finally made one of the bigs steps. We're DTC.   :) :)

Dossier to China

Since our last post things have been a little crazy.  After my sister agreed to make the drive to Jackson to get our authenticated documents, Hurricane Isaac decided that she really shouldn't do that. Jackson was a major evacuation route and so we weren't even sure that FedEx would manage it.  Since they were our only chance of getting it done, we tried anyway.  Luckily, Tim had the foresight to get extra copies and so we sent the extras via FedEx to the MS secretary of state office with a return FedEx airbill.  When tracking didn't show that it had been picked up yet by 4 the next afternoon (the day Isaac hit) I called the office and explained what we were waiting on.  The lady was very hospitable, as most of us Mississippians are, but she didn't give me much hope as her quote was "the lady that normally does this isn't in but I'll try!"   

It was apparently done correctly; woot!  That still left us missing our agency's Friday dossier to China day and so we were looking at losing a full week.  One of the other mothers on BAAS's fb group happened to mention that her docs were being picked up by a courier and sent to BAAS that day.  I hadn't realized that was an option. ;  BAAS needs the originals and a set of plain copies and our plan had been to have the courier send them to us to copy and forward.  We sent XQ (our BAAS agent) an email and she happily agreed to make the copies there as to save a few days.  

We are headed to Fiji to celebrate!  (Ok, not really; we actually already had our 25th wedding anniversary trip planned--6 months early so as not to interfere with Gotcha day).  Hopefully we will be LID when we get back and on our way to a speedy LOA.  😄