Chelsea's Help International

Introducing: Chelsea’s Help International – Helping Orphans in China We had fun playing with the kids at the Zhongshan Childrens Welfare Institute (ZCWI). The ZCWI is one of 56 orphanages in the province of Guangdong . The ZCWI is home to over 300 children. We wanted to do something for the place that gave Chelsea a home for the first 2 years of her life. We plan to send shipments over a couple of times a year. We want to start by sending soccer balls to our friends at the ZCWI. If you would like to help, send your contributions to: CHI PO BOX 2633 Ruston, LA 71272. We would like to send by April 1, 2013. Thanks for sharing.

Monday, March 26, 2012

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.

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