I'm already back with news to share!  After I posted earlier today, I went to the mailbox and there were our copies of the home study.  Also in the mail was another red thread bracelet.  My first one had run out of red thread and I decided, when our home study was finalized, that I would get another one and hopefully it will still have some red thread in it when we leave for China (my other one lasted 5 months).  I put our I-800A form in the mail today with its supporting documents and will hopefully hear from them within the next 30-45 days.

It's been a while since I've posted anything but we are still moving along at a snail's pace, it seems.  Our home study was approved and finalized last Friday, March 16th.  We still had one reference letter to send so my aunt, Donna Lynn, wrote that and we forwarded it to the home study agency.  We are now waiting for the 4 copies of the study to be sent to us so we can send it with our I800 form to the UCIS for approval which takes 30-45 days.  During this time we will have to be fingerprinted again and then we will have our dossier to sent to China (DTC).  We have been praying that we will find our daughter before we are DTC because I have heard that things go faster if you have your Letter of Intent (LOI) filed for a particular child before DTC.  There are also lots of children that you can't look into adopting though until you have a Log-in Date (LID) which doesn't happen until about 10 days after you are DTC.  Confusing, I know.  Keep praying that things will go smoothly from here.  We are so ready to find her and bring her home.  The boys talk about her all the time and it feels like she is missing.  Thanks for all the prayers and support.