LOA!! LOA!!

After only 39 days, we have our LOA, our Letter of Acceptance! I have been praying that we would be able to travel in July, and it looks like we just might be able to do that! It took us 5 weeks to be logged in when most families are logged in within a week or two, so just this week I was imagining someone looking at our file and saying, well, lets get this LOA moving to make up for lost time!

I was running errands, had just come out of the accountant's office when Tom called me and asked me where I was. Well duh, running the errands you sent me on. He says, well Living Hope is trying to reach you. My heart started pounding, NO WAY, I said, don't mess with me. He said, call them, they want to discuss your LOA! So I called and our rep. confirmed that we indeed have this important step out of our way. I ran into UPS and told Texas, the friendly counter guy that I see at least once a week our news, I know he thinks I'm crazy. Little does he know he's the first person I got to share this big news with!

We are now in the last stretches - we must now submit several more forms to apply for TA, travel approval. This time of waiting can take as long as 2 1/2-3 months but I'm hoping we're on a roll and can get our TA by the first of June so we can book our flights, get our CA or consulate appointment in China and go get our girl.