Dossier received in Taiwan! We are officially waiting!

Yay!  We received confirmation that our dossier was received by the orphanage in Taipei yesterday, Oct. 25th.  So we are now OFFICIALLY waiting for our referral! 

Here is our current situation in a nutshell:
The estimated wait time provided by our agency is 10 - 36 months.  So we might receive a referral sometime between August 2010 and October 2012.  Or it may be longer - it is hard to say.  I would say it is extremely unlikely the wait would be shorter than 10 months, but one can always dream, huh?  Our Taiwan baby will be somewhere between 0 - 18 months old at the time of referral. And please keep in mind that once we receive a referral (i.e. we are matched with a baby), it will likely be 4-8 months before we would actually travel to get her.  So we might be home with her sometime between December 2010 and June 2013.  In other words, we really don't know when anything will be happening at this point--we are starting the long wait, and there is nothing further to be done at this point.

I say that, and yet there is a lot I'd like to do over the months we are waiting.  Chris and I would really like to start learning Mandarin Chinese.  I would also like to keep up on this blog and give my family and friends useful information on Taiwan and on adoption.  So please check back occasionally--I'd like to update here about once a week, but we shall see. 

I have added another ticker to the bottom of the blog - this one will be our actual wait for referral.  I'm going to keep the "...since starting our adoption paperwork" because it will be very interesting for us to see just how long it takes us to finally bring our Taiwan baby home--from beginning to end, with all of the bumps included.  Bring it on!!