When traveling in a new land, it helps to know the lingo. As we have found ourselves immersed in the adoption culture, we have learned a new language of sorts. A prime example is my posting of this picture of our original dossier documents ready to mail: On my timeline, I explained what it meant. In my agency’s adoption group, I simply stated what it was. And on my timeline, lots of congratulations! In the group, it launched a full back-and-forth discussion full of lingo. A cultural coming together. One of my comments read: “ I love chatting with people who are in the adoption culture. It's like not having to explain a foreign language! ” One definite blessing of the internet during this process! For those of you who are traveling this road with me but occasionally feel like you are reading a foreign language, I want to explain what some of the "road signs" mean. #1 - An alias. You know our little girl as Sibyl, but that is not actually her real (or le