NVC letter and cable complete!

After our I-800 was approved we received a confirmation letter that our approval was cabled (aka emailed) to the US Embassy in Guangzhou.  That was the final piece of the puzzle from the USA.  Now we wait for our courrier in Guangzhou to hand-deliver our paperwork, arriving by both FedEx and email, to the US Embassy for them to pre-process our adoption and Elliott's VISA.  That takes a pretty predictable two weeks.  It gets picked up by the same courrier two weeks later, and overnighted to the CCCWA in Beijing, and it's our hope that the CCCWA will give us our final travel approval (aka TA) in one to three weeks.  Then we buy plane tickets!  Just to think that in one month from how we'll be hauling out suitcases and buying tickets is SO exciting! I'm finally allowing myself to 'nest' now, and get his room ready and start washing and folding his clothes and getting out his new toys. 

We found out just a couple of days ago that Matthew is going to start back to his teaching job about a month earlier than 'normal'.  His first day back is August 15, as he is teaching now on a year-round school caledar.  As disturbing as it was to us to lose a month of summer, he is a bit relieved that he'll have moer time with his students and his parapros to get the school year off to a good start before leaving for China and a few weeks of FMLA family bonding time.  So we've been packing a lot of fun into our last couple of weeks together in the beautiful summer sun!