Progress

Now that we are in the travel phase, the waiting feels like it has more of a purpose. Our Letter Seeking Confirmation has gone to China. We have already heard from the travel specialist from Great Wall and been given another list of tasks to complete. We are waiting for the Consulate to issue us an Article 5. Once we have this, it will be sent to the CCCWA. From there, we will wait for our official Travel Approval. Our travel dates depend on when the TA arrives, and also on the appointments we are given by the Consulate. In the meantime, we are working on getting visas and gathering paperwork. We also need to make an appointment at the UCONN Travel Center to get all of our shots for the trip (ouch!). The boys are having a busy summer, too. We just finished a week of Summer Bible Club at our church and swimming lessons. Steve and Grampa are building the boys a really cool tree-fort-without-a-tree. It was a promise Steve made to the boys last year, and he wanted to do it before life gets really crazy around here. I'm thinking it may end up with some pink and curtains before too long.