The long awaited day has arrived! We received our Letter of Acceptance (LOA) today. We were told that the average wait for LOAs was 120 days, and that the range was anywhere from 70 days to 220! We were only on day 84 - nice surprise :)
Now, for the story behind the LOA. Our agency had told us that in an effort to streamline paperwork, the CCAA (China Center of Adoption Affairs) would only be sending out LOAs with referrals at the beginning of the month. Since we hadn't received ours at the beginning of April, we had pushed everything back a month in our heads. On April 19, I talked to my mom about schedules (she and dad are on the books to be babysitters for our 3 staying behind). She said that their schedule for early to mid June was getting pretty hairy. Was I SURE that we wouldn't be travelling then? She wanted to be sure before commiting to too much. Yup, Mom, you are cleared out for early to mid June. Also on April 19, I went ahead and signed Peter up for gymnastics camp at Ohio State University for the week of June 11-14. Oh boy. The very next morning I got a surprise call from Grace at A Helping Hand - our LOA was in, and they were predicting an early to mid June travel date! Hmmmmm . . .
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