(Im)Patiently waiting

Our dossier is ready to go, except for that one little piece of paper that changes our Hague country to Ch*na.  Our officer said it should take about 10 business days for our paperwork to reach her from the Texas lockbox.  Day 10 is today.  Just in case it was a little early; I e-mailed her a FedEx mailing label for our approval on Tuesday.

The wait has been more brutal the past week because there is more than one little boy our agency currently has posted on their website that we are really interested in learning more about.  However, the agency only has 60 days with each child’s file.  If the agency is not able to find a family for the child after 60 days, the file sent back to Ch*na.  It is then sent by Ch*na to another agency, or posted to the shared list.

Unfortunately, the children we are interested in require that a family has a dossier logged in China. It takes up to 30 days for your dossier to be “logged” in China.  The agency can’t formally accept your intent to adopt a specific child until you have a log in date (LID).  So, our agency won’t share these files with us until they have our dossier, and then they need to check on the timing to see if it is possible for us to make the cut off.  Which makes perfect sense, I couldn’t imagine looking at a file only to miss the cut off, but boy, is it frustrating!!

I have been looking at the waiting children on their website for months, watching kids be matched, or not, and one by one, watched files go away and new pictures posted. Now that we are so close to getting our dossier in, there is a slight possibility that one of these boys could be our son.  Every day I look at who is still waiting, and think to myself, are you my son?