No Ordinary Family

I have written several blogs that will never make it to the publish option so here is a quick version and some pictures. Update:  Our agency should have a new home study out to immigration on Monday and hopefully they will accept this one.  They have excepted every one of our home studies before this so there is really no reason for it to be rejected but it is a new person looking at it, so who knows.  Hopefully by the end of the week we will be making travel arrangements I know I am being a bit hopeful but a girl has to dream! We have had a wonderful weekend with family.  Here are a couple pictures to prove it. And finally I know I have posted this before but someone is waiting to join us even if she does not know it yet, I love you sweet girl.

Jim and I decided to spend an evening out.  It was fun.  I got my hair cut, put on makeup and even dug out a pair of earrings I felt a little like a girl.  It was nice.  We went to an early dinner at Antojitos (sp?) a local Mexican restaurant with really really good food.  We got done with dinner earlier than we thought so we browsed the book store for a while before heading to a movie.  We saw Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows part I.  It was very well done I was quite pleased.  So much comes together in this book that I was wondering how they were going to accomplish it in the movie but I was happy and happy where they ended it.  I can't wait for part II in June, anyone want to volunteer to babysit in June? We had a really fun night and kind of a treat.  We do spend a lot of time together but this was just a little different.  We went out with a plan and that made it special. When we got home I decided a date night was not complete with out a minor injury.  The light was

We are being tested I am sure!!! We were told Tuesday that the process to approve our change of country could take 3 months.  It just makes me sick, literally ill.  Jim was the one that called them and had a horrid experience trying to get answers.  I know just trying to the address of where to send the form was insanely painful if you don't remember take a look at this post .  So Jim asked for us to be expedited and the mindless government drone on the other end of the phone said it was possible and we would have an answer in 5 days.  That was Tuesday.  If you care to hear his perspective you can read it here . What we don't know is if the answer that we will get is yes they will expedite or a decision on the change of country.  We can not make travel arrangements or even plans until we have this document.  I want to hit something!!! Our sweet friends are still waiting to get their travel approval and there is no idea of when that will be issued.  I am so hoping that they

We got our travel approval on Friday but we can not make travel arrangements until we get our updated 171H.  It is tough waiting.  We are ready to go, NOW!  I have emailed the National Benefits Center again and if I can I will call them today.  Work is crazy busy right now which could be a good thing or a bad thing.  It is busy so I don't have time to worry but I am finding it harder and harder to focus.

We have been waiting and waiting for this very important document and finally last night at almost 6pm we got word that our TA was here! Since all the important stuff always happens on a Friday night, we have no idea yet when we will travel.  We are still waiting on a few things.  We are still waiting for our Change of country, I am hoping that it comes very soon.   I sent an email last week and they are looking into it and should get back to us in a few days.  We also sent off for our travel visas last week. Our agency mentioned that we might be traveling in January and I am not sure why but we are going to push hard for travel in December!  Our friends that are also waiting, did not get travel approval yet :(  Which means we may have to travel alone but I am not counting out us traveling together yet.  I am praying hard that while we wait for our little things we hear that they are paper ready to go too!  I know it is going to happen the way it is supposed to happen but it would

This is proof that this adoption has scrambled my brains. I made an appointment to get my yearly physical, something every girl must do.  Not something that is fun but a fact of life, right? I got there this afternoon waited an hour for the doctor.  Why do you always have to wait so long?  At least I have my Kindle so I had some entertainment.  I finally got back in the room and they took my vitals.  BTW I am down 20 lbs since I started water walking!!! YES!  Hey it was worth going to the doctor just to get that news! So I get back to the room and answer all the questions, got undressed and on the table and everything. The nurse comes back in and gives me a Flu shot.  Not so bad although I hate needles.  Then when the doctor came in she said "why do you need an annual?"  I was like "what do you mean?, I do this every year" She said "you were here in February"  Oh Great!  I would have sworn it was more than a year since I was in.  I was sitting there na

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I had a hard time falling asleep last night and then I woke up about 4:30 this morning and could not get back to sleep.  I really need to stop worrying so much about all the craziness that is going on in my life and just get some rest.  I hope we get a lot of things done this weekend so that I can feel better about this upcoming travel. I saw this ladybug on my frozen car last week, good luck or just frantic packing?  There is a rumor that several TAs will be issued next week and as much as I am excited to get it, I am nervous.  I am nervous about having everything in place and ready to go.  I am nervous about the actual travel.  We have never done a trip this big before and add taking care of a baby that does not know me yet kind of freaks me out.  I know it will be fine in the end but I still have a hard time not thinking about it and there fore not sleeping. Today we are going to get to babysit Leah for a few hours, Jim is referring to it as practice :).  It should be fun.  I w

I've been back at the pool this week after being sick last week and it is sucking the energy out of me.  I know it is good for me but that does not make it any easier to go or to get out of bed and get moving in the morning. We are still waiting for Travel Approval and our updated 171H.  I feel like we are never going to be ready for Travel and I am freaking out a bit that it is going to sneak up on us and I want to enjoy it and not be rushed but it is not my life if I am not doing things last minute. I wish I had more to write but my brain has just been a little foggy lately, maybe this weekend I will have something to report.

Jim and I spent the afternoon with my family, a belated birthday dinner for my Dad.  It was a great weekend and I wish I had a couple more days.  Jim was able to get some cute photos of a lady bug, isn't she adorable? They say lady bug sitings are good luck for adoption, I am hoping that seeing this little lady gives us enough luck to bring our TA this week!