Screaming & doing backflips!!!

I'm so happy to share with you that after only 8 DAYS I have received Provincial Approval today at 11:14am!!!While driving to work today my right palm was so itchy, I had to keep scratching it!! My thoughts were…….uuummmm I’m coming into some money….yeehaw!!! Then I thought “I don’t buy lottery tickets so keep dreaming”. A few hours later I got the call from Lyla at DCRE saying I have the APPROVAL from the Saskatchewan Government to adopt from China!!! She mentioned that it was a very good homestudy (thanks Dorothy) and that she fully supports me and knows that I have the support from my family & friends. Soooo I’m guessing my itchy palm was a sign that GOOD NEWS was coming today and that I’m not coming into money, I’m going to have to send all my money to my Agency now!!! Oh well, I’m going to give them all of it, but my daughter will be worth it!!!

The Provincial Approval is one of the biggest steps/approval in the adoption process. It’s one of those either you are approved or denied. If I was denied for any reason my dream of adoption would have been over. Now, once a file goes to China their approval (usually) is based upon my Provincial Approval.

Lyla did request that I take a few pictures of the inside of my house, since all my pictures I handed in were of outside. Now I have to clean tonight…just joking!! So I will have to stage a picture, maybe of me cooking (with no flames) or a picture in the soon-to-be baby’s room.

The next step now is that the Provincial Government will send my APPROVAL letter and Dossier to my agency Family Outreach International in Ottawa. Now the big fees start happening. In the next day or two I will have to go to bank to get all the needed $$$ ready to send. Some money orders are needed in US $$$ and some in CDN $$$. Thank goodness that you send your money in installments and not all at once.

So a BIG thank you to all of you who have been following my journey so far and for all your kind words & wishes. I’m now officially in the hands of FOI…Family Outreach International!!!! Oh what a “HAPPY” day!!!!