So Starts a New Adventure!

Well, some of you may know that we have been talking for some time about adopting a little girl internationally and now we finally have a bit of news to share! On Feb 1st, we sent in our application to ASIA (Associated Services for International Adoption) for the Taiwan program and just heard back today that we have been accepted. I cannot even begin to describe to you how excited we are... We're going to have a little girl around here!! Well, now, don't get too excited yet-- this is going to be a LLLLLLOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG process. We were the last people that ASIA will be accepting for a while (WHEW!) because at the moment, our agency is estimating that the last few people who will be turning in their home studies will not even be submitting their paperwork to Taiwan until late 2009 (then they actually have to find a child for us and following that are court proceedings-- an additional 8-10 months probably). We have a line of folks in front of us, so we are probably looking at a 2-3 year wait for the process to be completed. If you're curious about the process, there's a nice little flowchart summary here http://www.asiadopt.org/pages/taiwan_adoptions/process_taiwan.html. In the meantime, Coco has a nice long time to decide exactly how baby's room will look-- and given my usual timeline and difficulty making decisions for that sort of thing, it's a good thing.

Once I begin to process all that will go into this, I will let out the story of how God changed our hearts to this incredible miracle, but for now, I'm tired. Please pray for peace on this journey, it's not going to be an easy one, but a very blessed one in the end.

Love, Courtney