One step closer

We are one step closer to traveling to China and bringing Faith FuDi home.  We have finally received the next piece of paperwork in this long adoption journey, our Letter of Acceptance from China, which is the official approval of our application to adopt FuDi.  Next we file more paperwork with USCIS to assure legal immigration status, then another approval from China and then we finally travel to bring her home.  It's usually no more than 3 months for these last steps of the paperwork process, but  I think about the only thing we can say with assurance she'll be home with us before the end of January.  So much longer than we anticipated....last January I thought we'd be traveling in August.  Ha!  I am just thrilled that we are finally at the end of the grueling LOA wait.  We were so sure we'd be on the shorter than average and ended up way beyond an average wait. But now we're onto the next step - more paperwork.  At least from here it's much more predictable.  Or so they say.