This is my first post on our new blog. The whole purpose of creating this is to keep family and friends up-to-date on our adoption process. I guess the best place to start is explaining how we got here.

Rob and I have been married for ten years now. The first seven of those years we tried desperately to get pregnant which actually did happen twice but we lost both. In 2005 we made the decision that it was time to start looking at other alternatives to building our family. After a lot of research we decided to apply to adopt from China. At the time, the process was supposed to take six to eight months from the time our dossier was received by CCAA (China Center for Adoption Affairs). Now, almost three years after we began this process, we are still waiting. The light at the end of this long tunnel is getting brighter so we decided it was time to get things ready to share.