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2月9日 LIDToday we are LID for 2 months so hopefully we only have 5 - 7 more months to go....But we will use this time wisely, we have lots of home projects to do, plenty of reading and stax of research to keep us busy.  2月5日 Families with Children from AsiaThis weekend we attended the Families with Children from Asia Chinese New Year Dinner. We had a fabulous time. We met Janet, Kent & Taylor and Bernie, Irwin & Lia both families are in our DTC group. It was wonderful to see all the families and children. We are looking forward to the day that we go to fetch our child.
1月28日 Adoption websiteOur official website is almost ready, just a few more finishing touches and then we will send you the link.  1月21日 Adoption Time Line6 September 2005 - Meeting with contact at the Saskatchwan Community Resources & Employment office to discuss our options for International Adoption.
6 September 2005 - Contact Independent Practitioners to set up an appointment to start home study.
7 September 2005 - Get our first baby gift from my mom, sister, b-in-law and nephew.
 7 September 2005 - Set up appointment with IP and decide on which agency to use.
7 September 2005 - Submit on-line application for information package from FOI.
8 - 11 September 2005 - Approach family, friends & co-workers to be references for home study.
12 September 2005 - Receive information package from FOI in mail.
 12 September 2005 - First meeting with IP, start home study.
13 - 14 September 2005 - Phone immediate family back in South Africa to tell them our exciting news.
 15 September 2005 - Send announcement to family & friends world-wide letting them know that we have decided to start the adoption process.
19 September 2005 - FOI received our registration and first payment.
19 September 2005 - 2nd meeting with IP, home study.
26 September 2005 - 3rd meeting with IP, home study.
29 September 2005 - Health Examination with GP
12 September - 24 October - Collect infomation for home study.
25 October 2005 - 4th and final meeting with IP, finalize home study.
4 October 2005 - Join Saskatchewan Adoption Support Centre.
8 October 2005 - Review draft of homestudy.
27 October 2005 - Hand in dossier to contact at the SK Community Resources and Employment office.
2 November 2005 - Dossier signed by Director at provincial office and couriered to FOI.
5 November 2005 - Dossier received by FOI.
22 November 2005 - Receive notification in mail to pick up package from FOI on November 23rd from local post office.
22 November 2005 - Receive an email from one of the families in our FOI group.
23 November 2005 - Collect package from post office. It is a letter from FOI our dossier was sent to China on November 12, 2005. The letter from FOI has list of families through out Canada whose dossiers went to China with ours.
VERY IMPORTANT TIME LINE DATE: DTC (Dossier to China) 12 November 2005. 23 November 2005 - Email all the families on our list, introducing ourselves.
24 November 2005 - Join Saskatchewan Families with Children from Asia association.
24 November 2005 - present - Emails to other waiting families, updates to families and friend and lots and lots of adoption research.
16 December 2005 - Email from FOI explaining that there is a delay in the referral times for children. Best case scenario 6 -7 months from LID (Log-in-Date) or Worst case scenario 8 - 9 months from LID.
23 December 2005 - Receive a beautiful book on adoption from a friend/co-worker.
1 January 2006 - Open gifts from family and friends in South Africa. Got some lovely baby presents and pieces of fabric for our quilt. We had so much fun opening these presents, we even took photos.
19 January 2006 - 2nd MOST IMPORTANT TIME LINE DATE: LID (Log-In-Date) 9 December 2005. Recevied our email today from the provincial office stating that they got our letter from the CCAA stating that our dossier had been received and our information was logged into their data base as of 9 December.
 20 January 2006 - RSVP to SK FCA to attend our first Chinese New Year Party on February 4, 2006. Very excited to meet families that have already adopted and to meet other waiting parents.
Now the BIG wait for our referral begins.
 100 Good Wishes Quilt100 Good Wishes Quilt Project
To welcome and celebrate a new life, there is a tradition in the northern part of China to make a "Bai Jia Bei", or 100 Good Wishes Quilt. It is a custom to invite family and friends to contribute a patch of cloth with a wish for the new baby. Part of the cloth goes into the quilt, and the other part will go into a creative memory book with the wishes from all the families and friends who contributed a piece of fabric. The quilt is then passed down from generation to generation.
Our nursery is going to be decorated in natural tones (cream/beige/brown) with hints of traditional chinese colours (maroon/burgandy/red/gold) and the theme is going to be Panda's and Ladybugs (both very meaningful to the Chinese adoption process).
So far we have received fabric from family and friends in SA (see attached photo). Our family & friends in SA had a great idea to send us some ethnic fabric to add to the quilt, adding a little bit of Africa to it:) We are hoping that our friends around the world will send us fabric that represents where they live, that way we will have a real "international" quilt.
1月20日 We are AdoptingRowan & I are very happy to announce that we are in the process of adopting a baby from China. We have lots to tell and are in the process of having a special web page set up. So watch this space for further details. In the mean time we have updated this space with links that you might find interesting regarding International Adoption. |
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