Over the past week, Ben and I have been busy composing our autobiographies. This is a requirement for the home study agency’s application: summarize your life in 3 pages, and please include a family photo. We finished our homework assignment over Memorial Day weekend. With application now completed and in the mail, we await word from [...]

After sending off our application to CCAI and waiting and waiting…  we eventually began to worry. This past weekend, the silence reached critical mass. We began to wonder, how long should it take for approval, did they receive our package, did they even cash our check? The question in the back of our heads – will Ben’s Tourette [...]

Today the application to CCAI was sent. We chose to work with them since they are the most experienced with Chinese adoptions. Also, we did verify that we can bring additional family members with us to China when the time comes. Not all agencies will allow that from what I understand. I also spent a [...]