Amazing Grace and a Safe Haven: Come Back Tomorrow

Our Adoption Journey

July 2005--We decide to begin an international adoption
September 2005--Choose China for our adoption and begin filing paperwork for our dossier
November 2005--Dossier is sent to China
December 5, 2005--Dossier is logged in to CCAA in China
December 2005 thru November 2007--We wait and wait and wait for our referral to come from China
November 2007--We finally get our referral and see Grace's beautiful face for the first time
December 2007--We travel to China to meet our darling Grace
December 23, 2007--Grace is placed in our arms in the lobby of the Chongqing Hilton
December 24--Christmas Eve--Grace's offical adoption day
January 2008--Grace comes home and becomes a US citizen
March 2008--We celebrate Grace's First Birthday
August 2008--We begin adoption #2 and choose the Democratic Republic of Congo as our next country to pursue
November 2008--Our homestudy is complete and has been sent to DRC. We now wait for our I-171 to come back from the USCIS
Sometime in 2009--We hope to bring home Baby Haven, soon soon soon!!!