Out of Review Room!

It's official. Someone sitting in an office in Beijing, China has looked at our file, read all about us and seen our photos. Officially we are out of the Review Room (to see photos of the Review Room click here)... which was an (almost) record breaking timeframe for being in and out the quickest... we were in the Review Room for a whopping 3 weeks! Although you have to remember our file sat on a shelf in that same office for 13 months before anyone looked at it. And now it will move to another shelf before it is looked at again.

So in essence this means that the People's Republic of China have now approved us to adopt one of their precious children.

We are now considered to be 'pending allocation' and that actually means the next time someone will look at our file, they will also be looking at our daughter's (or son's) file as well, and hopefully saying "ahhh yes, this child and this couple will make a lovely family."

Who knows how long we will now wait to get that call. It is such an unknown. When people ask I just keep saying "oh about another year." But I feel like I have been saying that for... well... about a year!

My hopes and prayers are that we will see our child's face before Christmas 2008.