Keeping up with the Lacocks

That's Right.......LID!!!! We were emailed today by our agency and they informed us that as of 1/17/13 we had been logged in!   We are making progress and that feels great! We hope and pray that in the next couple of months we will be matched with our daughter and it won't slow down the process for Hudson.   We still are praying to travel in June or July!  It is just so exciting to think about! BTW, isn't that just about the cutest fabric ever, underneath my LID sign?!  I just love it!  Can't wait to make something for my baby girl with that fabric!

Our Christmas wish this year is that we can bring Hudson and our baby girl home!! Praying that 2013 is the year we complete our family! May this year bring many blessings to your family as well.

So, last time we "talked" we had just mailed our dossier (for the first time) to the Consulate in Chicago. Well, since then, we have mailed it two more times after it has been rejected for minor notary wording issues.   We were thinking we would have a LID (log in date) of late November, now we are looking at a LID of at least January, and that's only if they accept our dossier this time and don't reject it for a 3rd time. We also received word this week that they are changing their log in process so they won't be logging in any new dossiers between Dec 20th and Jan 1st.  Any dossiers received after Dec 20th will experience some delays due to them redo this process.   When I heard this, I immediately had flashbacks of our process in Thailand, that changed 2 months into our process and resulted in us being unable to adopt from that country.    Praying this doesn't happen again and that the delays are minimal. I just can't wait for the call that we have ...

Mailing our Dossier!!! So I wrote the previous post on Wednesday and on Thursday my birth certificate arrived (Only 4 days after I mailed the order form!) So Friday morning we headed downtown to the Secretary of States office to have it authenticated and then headed straight to the post office to mail the whole dossier off!! We are soo excited to be one step closer to our son and daughter! Bring on the Referral!!!!!

Look at all those Pretty Gold Seals!!! A couple weeks ago I went to our Secretary of State's office to get our dossier authenticated. (Gold Sealed!)   While there, I was informed that they could not accept my birth certificate because it was county issued, not state issued.   They gave me the phone number to call and order over the phone, which I did as I walked back to my car.....I'm not wasting ANY time here.  I paid the extra $25 to have it overnight couriered so that it would only take 5-10 days to get it vs. 15-30 days if they regular mailed it.  Well, Monday I still didn't have it and it had been 2 weeks, so I called them to see where it was.   They then informed me that the day after I ordered it they stopped processing requests over the phone and so I would need to reorder it via snail mail.   Frustrated that I had "lost" two weeks of time I immediately was reminded by the Holy Spirit that NONE of this is in my time (a lesson you'd think I'd...

Ok, I just have to preface this news with that fact that I thought this day was never going to come, therefore I thought I would never be able to say these words out loud, although I said them in my head often.  What are these words, you might ask?? WE HAVE A REFERRAL!!!!!!! After going on close to 3 yrs of waiting, it seems surreal to say it!!   Its even more surreal to stare at the picture of our adorable 4 yr old little man in China!   Tom and I will be writing our letter of intent to adopt him this week.   Sooo exciting!   His name will be Hudson (named after the great missionary to China - Hudson Taylor) I will now address the other questions on your mind...... 1.  what about the little girl we have been praying to adopt?   We will be waiting for the next few months for a referral for a little girl from China as well, so that we can process the two together and go one time to pick them both up! 2.  What about the other Southeas...

Ok, we finally, after 2 1/2 years designed an adoption t-shirt. We didn't want it to be a serious one. We instead wanted it to be funny and edgy! Anyway we only have 20 more days to sell 50 shirts or they won't print them. So if you want to order one do it now and pass it along to anyone else that may want one!!! Thanks for helping support our adoption! Visit www.teespring.com/lacockadoption