USCIS Approval!!

Joshua went to check the mailbox this afternoon and there it was!!! Our approval. We were all very excited and immediately went into planning mode. Checking addresses and times. We are hoping to be able to get to the county, city, secretary of state, and Chinese consulate all on Monday (by 3:30). What are the chances? We are going to give it a good try. Here's hoping that it is a good traffic day in the city. If we are able to do all that, we pick our dossier up 3 or 4 days later, then off it goes! I'm so excited!! We are forever indebted to Teresa for making sense of all this for me. She once again went over our dossier and one last blast of information. With Quan's 9th birthday a week away if is a relief to finally be getting to this point. Also, we are getting near the date when things would start expiring. It's now looking like we might actually make it this time without having to redo everything. Wow. Thanks for everyone's prayers. It's prayer that is making this happen. Quan's birthday is the same date as my dad's. It will be a difficult day. But knowing we are taking a huge step toward getting him home is so good. All week I've been thinking about my dad saying to me, if you can do it, bring him home. We're bringing him home dad. I hope some how you are seeing this. Missing you every second of every day.