* * * We are DTC!!! * * *

It is a banner day at the Altman house!  After almost six months of doing home study, gathering documents from various states and agencies, waiting on government offices to do their jobs, calling said offices many times, calling our agency many, many times, notarizing, certifying, and authenticating many documents, waiting, waiting, and more waiting, our dossier is FINALLY on it's way to China!  We are officially DTC!!

I am so excited to finally have all of that stuff finished and on to the next step.  Now we will wait a couple of weeks for our LID (log-in date) from China, and after that will wait for our dossier to be translated and then approved.  (We had pre-approval waaay back in August, if you remember!)  Please be praying that these things happen without any problems or delays.

Thanks to all who have prayed for us during this long process, and for your many words of encouragement during the most frustrating times!

I have several blogs on the right side bar.  If you are interested in what we will be doing when we go to China in a few months, you should follow along with some other bloggers who are there NOW!  "Surpassing Greatness", "Everything Beautiful", and "There's No Place Like Home" are all in China right now, picking up their new sons and daughters.  You will have to scroll back a week or two to get to the beginning of their stories, but they are all so wonderful.  I can't wait till that is US sending stories and photos back home.  :)