Friday, April 27, 2007

100 Good Wishes


I have emailed or talked to most of our friends and family about the 100 Good Wishes quilt. So far I have 60 squares so getting close to the 100 I need. I have an idea of a quilt pattern to use but I do need to go look at quilt books to finalize what I'm going to do. Luckily there's a quilt shop in town! We also have a dear friend who is an avid quilter and is excited to help. I feel like Grandma Rieka is looking over my shoulder to help with this big project too. Grandma created the most beautiful quilts but she never taught me how. She said I was too much like her and would make myself crazy trying to get it done. I have trouble stopping something once I get really into it so I had to agree with her. I have a feeling I will be staying up til 2 in the morning many nights while quilting (case in point, here it is 11:30, I have a billion other things to do and I'm blogging). hmmm


Wednesday, April 18, 2007

First Post



Wow, that was easy. I just set up our blog for Lila!

Ok, we started this adoption process in March of 2006. We are done with all the paperwork & it is all in China. We were DTC "dossier to China" February 23, 2007 and got our LID "log in date" on March 27, 2007. The log in date means our paperwork has been received the the CCAA (Chinese Center for Adoption Affairs) and has been entered into their computer system. Now the wait begins. Currently the time from LID to referral is 14 months. I am guessing about 18 months-2 years for our wait.

This picture is Grace with all the completed paperwork before we sent it in.

Welcome to our journey!

Thanks for joining us,

The Conant Family
Chrissy & Gerry & Grace
Eagerly waiting for Lila!
Pets: Daphne, Harry, Oscar, Snakey, & George