The Sadie Lady

I thought this day would never get here. Got the e-mail from CCAI. Our dossier was sent to China yesterday afternoon. We have should find o...

What a whirlwind the last two weeks have been. First and foremost, ALL OUR PAPERWORK IS DONE!!! Our dossier is in Colorado at CCAI being ...

The 171 came back from Washington and Jeff drove it down to the CCAI office in Atlanta!! After having UPs lose our home study/pictures and t...

Well, after many phone calls to find out why it is taking so long for the corrected 171 to reach us, Jeff found out that "the officer...

Finally, got here around 11:30pm, it took quite awhile to get the bags. Portland is a small airport. It's like one concourse at KCI or ...

I'm in the airport in Charlotte. It's been a long day and my flight to Maine is delayed. It was supposed to leave at 7:20 pm and the...

CCAI got the last package we sent. They let us know they are moving our dossier to critical review. They'll be looking at it for erro...

Brenda Ballard faxed us the letter from Michigan stating it was common practice in 1959 for the county clerk to change the name on a birth c...

We spent the afternoon immersed in Chinese culture. Not all the people in the group were parents who adopted from China, I would say most we...

Everyone is blue, even Chase and Sadie. We received the 171 today and as expected with the wrong name on it. The officer in Charleston has ...

My friend and her family in Missouri just got their referral of a son from Thailand!! He's 11 months old. Don't know all the details...

Thank-you Brenda! We met with Brenda Ballard this morning in Greenville . Jeff laid out all our documents and explained what happened with t...

Brenda Ballard the assistant to our congressman Bob Inglis called this evening. I think at the beginning even she thought there was nothing...

When you adopt internationally you deal with two separate governments and all the paperwork that each one requires. Some of the paperwork is...

It has been a little disturbing the last few days, especially since we have already dealt with one lost package that UPS has never found. B...

Jeff heard Billy Joel was going to be in Greenville so we got tickets for a night of re-living the 70's. Walking to the concert from the...

Sarah's boyfriend Michael (front in the picture) is a junior at the Citadel. He is very nice and has been to our house several times. Th...

We had a nice Valentines Day. We took off in the middle of the afternoon and went for a matinee. We saw "Blood Diamonds" it was re...

Sarah's 21!! She celebrated her birthday in Charleston with all her friends then came up to our house this week-end. We had spaghetti (S...

CCAI sent me an e-mail that they had received the stuff we sent to Georgia and I checked FedEx on-line and saw the the package to the couri...