Almost the last step

So as of tomorrow (Feb 1) we can start staying we will be in China next month (March)! Today we recieved our Letter of Seeking Confirmation from Adopter. Or LOSC in adoption lingo. This is the letter we have been waiting for and thougth would not come until late February. It is the letter from CHina that says they have processed all our paperwork and that Elizabeth is ours!

Here is what is says:
"Based on your application and in accordance with the Adoption Law fo the People's Rebublic of China, the China Center of Adoption Affairs matched a child with you. Herein, we send the information about the child to you. You are kindly requested to make your decision, sign in the proper place below, and deliver this letter as soon as possible to the adoption organization which submitted your application file, Homeland Children's Foundation."

It is in Chinese and in English and is all official looking. So we will overnight this back to New York to our agency. Then they will send it to China and we wait for our permission to travel which takes about 5-6 weeks. Then when we get that, we can go! The exciting thing is that we are one of nine families from our agency that got their letters at the same time, so we will all be traveling together.

Things are getting so close and so real. Just a little bit more. It is crazy that we are talking weeks, not months or years anymore. Elizabeth is so close........