Apr

29

The Brown Envelope

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Got the Brown Envelope today.  I know it’s been a while since our last posting and you probably want to know what is the significance of the Brown Envelope?  Well let me tell you.  We have been taking our time working on the house.  We still haven’t finished the deck but we’re not far from it, perhaps in a week or two then on to the sprinkler in the back.  Becky has been stocking the nursery closet with clothes, diapers, books and etc.  We purchased a great 12 cube book shelf from and unfinished wood store.  This weekend is the Disney Catalog Outlet Store tent sale so hopefully we’ll get some good deals.  About the Brown Envelope it contained the forms from US Embassy in Guangzhou.  Receiving the Brown Envelope lets us know that the US Embassy is ready for us when we get there to pick up the baby’s VISA and immigration paperwork. FACTOID thanks to a new law passed in January 2004 once the adoption papers are signed the child is considered a US citizen.  We won’t have to readopt Morgan when we get her back to the states.  As we wait for our referral we been reading articles about and talking to a lot of people that have already adopted from China.  I figure it’s going to kind of be like Survivor for Becky and I in China.  There will be exotic food, contaminated water and the reward challenge of a new baby.  I CAN’T WAIT!!!!  Oh the rumor is that we may get our referral in September or October so we may be getting our child by the end of the year.  That’s right Daddy’s little tax deduction, Yahoo!  I’ll probably start doing an update once a month unless something noteworthy happens so tune in next month.