Finally DTC!! HOORAY!!!

Our dossier was finally shipped to China on April 25, 2006. We have a FedEx tracking number and as I sit here typing this update, our dossier is somewhere over the pacific ocean. It left Anchorage, Alaska this morning at 9:07 AM. In fact it may be on the ground in Beijing by now.
We celebrated last night by going out for Chinese food. Lisa had Beef & Broccoli and I had Chicken & Mushrooms. That is our usuall when have Chinese. We always say that we are going to experiment more but when we get there and it is time to choose we always take the same old thing.
We are expecting to be logged into the CCAA within the next couple of weeks. At that point we are looking at a wait of about 10-12 months. Lets hope and pray that it doesn't go any longer than that. Currently the CCAA is working on placement of children with families that were logged in the second week of June last year. So we basically have 1 year of families ahead of us and will have to work our way to the "top of the pile" so to speak. Last year the CCAA placed over 7,000 children to American families alone. That does not count placements of children to other countries. My best guess is that there are about 12,000 placements before we recieve our referral of Alison Rose. She may or may not even be born at this time. Everything is out of our hands at this point and all we can do is pray that God matches us up with the child of our dreams.





Here is a snapshot of our FedEx tracking information showing our dossier being delivered to the CCAA in Beijing.