The Story of the Linne-Laughlin Family!: WAHOOOOO!!!!!!! WE HAVE OUR LID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, April 30, 2007

WAHOOOOO!!!!!!! WE HAVE OUR LID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Everyone:

Sometimes my email system rejects certain messages because it thinks they are spam. Unfortunately, it chose to reject an important message from our agency last Friday.

The good news is that a new message was sent today and we learned that we have our Log-in Date (LID!) Can you believe it is 4/24/07. The CCAA received our dossier on 4/23 and logged it in just ONE day later!! Wahoo!!!! I am so happy that we made the 5/1 deadline with plenty of time to spare. Actually, I think we may have broken some land speed records! Ha ha!

I just knew those ladybugs, fortune cookies and the trip to Philadelphia were all good signs! I told you business travel brings good luck to our family! :) Smiling with OUTRAGEOUS joy!!

With love for our Abbie (and all our beautiful children!)

Tracie and Dan
LOI 2/13/07
PA 4/10/07
DTC 4/23/07
LID 4/24/07

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: What a relief! I can't wait to have our Abbie home where she belongs, riding bikes & chasing bubbles in our driveway.; May 1, 2007 at 12:54 AM
Abbie Le Qian said...: Me too! Every little child deserves to do fun things like that. Not just stay in a metal crib all day. :(

Love you! Me; May 1, 2007 at 5:08 AM

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