Hello friends. Just want to give you all a quick update on Qing Nan's (Marlaina's) adoption. We finally have our fingerprint appointment set for July 16th. We had to request an extension from China late last week since they have not received our dossier.
The adoption is behind roughly four weeks--two weeks due to a tooth infection that I had several months ago (it was bad) and two due to delays completely outside our control. A friend of mine who is adopting from Bulgaria had the same home study completion date as ours, except ours happened three weeks after hers. She received her fingerprint appointment in two weeks and ours took six. As with our daughter Katie's adoption, we have done everything we can with this adoption to get things turned around as quickly as possible.
Ya know, it's God's timing so we're not worried about it. We plan to try a couple of things to make up for lost time, though. We'll try to walk-in to the fingerprint office this week and see if it works. We'll also drive all our paperwork the 300 miles round trip from Houston to Austin rather than mail it in for State approval. Fortunately the Chinese Consulate's office for our region is right here in Houston, so we'll do what we did with Katie's adoption and walk it in, too. We'll keep you posted. :-)
