CHINA:
China is very slow right now. They are currently filling applications with log in dates from Jan '06. Our application was logged in in March '07. They have been working on the Jan '06 applications for the last four months and are only up to Jan 20, '06. Do the math on that--it's scary.
DOMESTIC:
We completed all of our paperwork in May and received an email from our agency at the beginning of June stating that they are now showing our book to birth moms.
As part of the application process we created a book and a DVD that will be shown to birth moms. This is how they determine who they would like to place their child with.
The big difference between the two is that in China we are "in line" and with the domestic adoption we are waiting to be picked.
In the meantime, we are part of a team at our church that is working on creating a no-fee adoption agency. We went to a conference in Seattle a few weeks ago to learn how to get started. Antioch Adoptions has been doing no-fee adoptions for eight years. We are now mulling over what we learned with the rest of our team to determine how we will proceed.
We also spent a few days in Oregon after the conference hiking in rain forests and trying to stay dry.
