Baby Steps... I800 approval !

I wish that I was ecstatically jumping off the walls right now with the terrific news that our I800 is getting approved today, but for some reason I'm not. I guess it was when I asked the officer what next and when - that kind of burst my little bubble that was forming - she said: the approval now goes to the Dept. of State - National Visa Center and they will electronically scan our paperwork and send it to the China Consulate and these papers will then meet up with our other papers to become an "Article 5" - she said the Dept of State is a separate entity from them and she really wasn't sure of the timing but said "not long - maybe 3 weeks" - i about broke down into tears - i was hoping she'd say 3 days! I'm dead serious! - i was not expecting her to say 3 weeks.

So, we are praying for paperwork miracles - PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE pray for paperwork miracles - we want to bring Maylynn home soon!!

Also, this weekend we decided to send Maylynn another care package. We sent her one in April- we had hoped that we'd be there now but obviously are not. We just really want her to know that we are still coming for her. This time i used Ann at Red Thread China - i am hoping that she will get it this week and it has turned out to be about the same price of me sending one from here. I believe that she lives in China and sends packages, translated letters etc. to the waiting children:) We are waiting to hear back from her on how the delivery went and we asked her if she can find out some updated information too. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE pray that someone can get some updated info about our little girl:)