WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Mike and I are pleased to announce that Christmas came early for us this year. Yesterday we received in the mail our I171-H and today we sent it to our agency via Priority mail (with tracking, OF COURSE!). We are DONE. Now we just wait for CAWLI to review our documents and send them to China. Within about 4 weeks, China should have all of our documents, and we will be able to officially call ourselves “paper pregnant”. On Tuesday, Mike and I will go to the police station to get new letters of good standing (background checks). We’ve already had this done, but they will be close to expiration by the time our stuff goes to China, so we will get new ones just in case we need them. Nothing else is even close to expiration (thank God), so there really is NOTHING left to do except wait, wait and wait. I can’t even tell you how excited and relieved we are to have this paperchase over with and to finally be “in process”!

Hope all of you reading this have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!