Journey to Harris Five: LID!

Another acronym! We're LID today, which means "Logged In Dossier"! Our dossier is now officially in the CCCWA system in China and will now be moving through their system to be translated and reviewed. This is a big step! Woo hoo! While we are technically "on hold", the timing has been perfect because things are still happening while we wait. A lot of people have asked when we will have a referral and when we will bring her home. The honest truth is this: We don't know! An educated guess would be that we may travel to China sometime in the Spring/Summer next year, but we really have no idea. We could match our first day off hold or it could take more than six months for a referral. We do know this: God has already chosen our daughter. She was picked for our family before she was born and we will be matched with her when the time is right, whether that time is near or far away. From talking to others and reading the adoption blogs, matching quickly generally means a long wait for your paperwork to be processed to travel and a long wait to match usually means your paperwork will get processed more quickly, so it probably evens out.

My friend from college, Laura, is an amazingly talented photographer and came up from Charleston to take newborn pictures of Charlie and our family! Check them out! This is a link to her blog which has a bunch more pictures of us if you haven't already seen them. There is a link from there to her website too! http://gallerybylaura.com/blog/2016/08/21/rainbow-baby-newborn-session-charleston-sc-photographer/

Please pray for Graham: I think he's realizing Charlie is here to stay and has had a rough week. It's clear he loves Charlie, but also is having a hard time with adjusting to my attention being split and his routine being different. We did make time for a date on Saturday night, which was so fun!