Hallelujah!! WE ARE DTC APRIL 7th!

We are so happy to annouce that we are DTC on April 7th. I cannot tell you what it feels like to know we are on our way. It has been a long journey. We started this process in late October, knowing that we would have to wait for my birthday on April 8th. The Big 30!! However, we wanted to get started early and be proactive. We always had the goal to be finished & ready to go by my birthday and we just barely made it. This has been the best gift that I could ever receive and it just plain feels kinda weird. We have been working, praying and obsessing over making this goal and now it is done. We have made it, we are going to be parents. Someone pinch me. Is this for real?
I have so many things that I want to do for our daughter(s) over the next year. I have already started on a scrapbook and the closet is getting ridiculous. NO MORE SHOPPING! I think I am going to start a journal for her as to what we are doing pre-parenthood. I know life will change so much after she arrives. It will be a welcome change. We have petitioned for twins but know that it is unlikely to happen. We will be happy either way and our hearts are just set on being parents. People may think that we are helping a child, however she is helping us more than she will ever know.
Our dossier consisted of 12 documents and two photo pages. I took a bunch of pics and hope to recreate our picture page for a scrapbook page. Our dossier arrived at Great Wall China Adoption on Tuesday, April 4th and was mailed to China or DTC on the 7th of April. Now we wait for the infamous Log In Date (LID). This is the date that China logs in our information to their system. From your log in date, referrals of a baby are now currently taking about 10 months. When we started they were taking 6 months. So we still have a long wait. I remember being so down and out after Christmas and complaining that we would never get to April and NEVER be DTC. My wonderful and supportive hubby tried to tell me that it would be just right around the corner and here it is.

WE ARE DTC!!!!!