PANEL date!!!!

We got an email from Team Leader at our Local Authority the other day, can't remember exactly when - we are on holiday you know!! Anyway she said that following her meeting with our Social Worker that they had decided the Homestudy Report was great and we could be booked into Panel :-) She has booked us into the October one, as the Panel Chair is on her hols for the September one and Team Leader would prefer us to go before the Panel Chair as she is more experienced (ie she was there when we were approved for China!!) than the Vice Chair!! Its frustrating to miss a whole month (our LA only have one Panel a month) but there isn't a lot I can do about it!! Had a huge panic when I realised that the Panel date was the same day as we get back from Florida - but luckily we get back early in the morning so as long as we can have an afternoon appointment for Panel we should be fine :-) I've emailed Team Leader and asked her this, but tried to word it so that she doesn't put us back to November or anything!!!

Its great news and I'm so pleased that we are finally moving along :-) We first talked to our LA about changing countries in FEBRUARY!! So its great that we are now in sight of the finishing post of this part of the process! I'm not thinking about the slow drag through DCSF that we still have to endure just yet!!