We are done! Tonight, the last mailer will be sent to Great Wall. Our dossier will be compiled, sent for authentication, and "logged in" with the CCAA in Beijing.

We will soon receive our all important "login date". All dossiers logged in on this date will be treated equally throughout the remainder of the process. The significance of this date is that we will begin a slow bonding process with other families with the same login date. We will meet them, share our excitement as the waiting period inevitably shortens and ends, share the joy when we receive our referrals and child photos together, and in the end will share the trip to China with them as well.

They will all be extended family, in other words.

But first things first. Send in the mailer, get our login date, and wait.

Oh, about the wait. It looks like 2+ years now. I hope we can find a 3 year old to keep us busy during that time. ;)