I think I will make a photo album to send to Zoey once we get the referral with pictures of our family, home, puppies, friends and life here so her caregivers can show her as she waits for us to come and get her!!!

Well I was asked by a friend why I have not updated my blog...well there is nothing really to post. Still waiting, and no news from China yet this month. But I have been in contact with our adoption agency and social worker to get information on what things will be like once we get the referral. They sent me the actual letter that they will send with our referral. Needless to say, I was overwhelmed and a bit freaked out. Its been 4 years this month since we made the decision to adopt from China and started the "paper chase". Therefore as you can imagine, I had forgotten ALOT! So in light of this I have a "to do" list started for things I can do before the referral comes. Luckily I was reassured that we will have a travel agent make ALL our travel arrangements from the flight to China to intercountry travel to hotels, train, bus, sight seeing etc. Pretty much all we have to do is show up to the Charleston International Airport with our luggage (guess i need to get some decent luggage now)and they take it from there.
My first task at hand is to get mine and Ray's immunization up to date. I am good except for my Hep A but Ray needs to complete his Hep B and get his Hep A. This should be an easy task...make the appointment and its done!!
Bye for Now...Shannon

1-6-09
Well I ran across this while looking at friend's blog on photography...its been so long I had forgotten I created it. It has been 3 years, 8 months and 5 days since China accepted our request to adopt a baby girl from China. The China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) is very methodical and refers children to families in chronological order as they received them. We were "logged in" (LID) on April 12,2006. Our file has been sitting in China waiting to be touched and ultimately matched with our daughter. The CCAA has referred children to families with LID dates of April 3, 2006. Just 9 days away from us. Lately they have only been referring about 2-3 days a month. At this rate we are still looking at another 3-6 months before our referral.
Over the past 3 years we have had time to complete her room. I will try to post pictures if i can figure out how to do it.
So i guesss just keep checking in on my Blog and I will keep it updated.

Thanks for checking in...Shannon and Ray