An update...

Sorry it's been so long since the last update, life always seems to get in the way of things like this. We've had some excitement since the last posting. First, we're now officially on the waiting list. This happened December 31, 2006. It came at just the right time, because things started changing January 1, 2007. On January first, there was a fee increase, so we JUST squeaked by on that one.
China has also changed their rules. The new rules went into effect May 1. The new rules are here. Fortunately for us, this won't affect us.
As always with good news, there's some bad as well. When we started this process, the average wait time after being approved was just 12 months. Today it's about 20 months. That means people getting matched now, have waited 20 months for their child. We expect this to possibly even go up by the time we get our match, but we're hoping the new rules will speed things up.
We've taken one of our adoption classes, on grief. You wouldn't think grief would be a part of adoption, but it is. The child is leaving everything they know, so they will be grieving for caregivers and others left behind in China.
We're taking our next class tomorrow night, so I'll write more about the classes later. That pretty much brings everything up to date, but I'll try to do better to keep this up to date.