DTC & LID ...

We had some big news come on May 30 - DTC!!!

what's DTC?

DTC is an acronym for "dossier to China"!

ok, so what does this mean?

this means that on May 30, 2017 our dossier began it's journey to China!

the dossier is all the documents, all the forms, the home study - everything we've put our heart and soul into these past few months ... it was all for this point when we could send it off to it's destination.  Once there it gets logged into the system, then it gets translated, then it gets reviewed ... and then, THEN we get officially approval to adopt this sweet girl we now call Ruby!

usually people get LID within a few days, but for some reason ours took two entire weeks - 14 agonizing days.  We finally got work on June 13 that we were LID, an acronym for "log in date"!

I tried to be patient, but after a week and a half of not hearing of any progress (many people get updates for the stages of "in translation" and "out of translation, and our agency had said they would keep us up to date on where our dossier was at) I decided to email yesterday.  I was thrilled to read the reply email that said we are now in process of review!!!!

This is the longest stage for the dossier, as all that information has to be read and thoroughly examined!  Never the less, I was pleasantly surprised that translation went faster than I thought and progress always makes me happy.

Every step, no matter how big or how small, is one step closer to her.

One step closer to having her in our arms.

One step closer to bring her home.

One step closer to our forever.