FINALLY!!!
We will be traveling early October to go get our son!
I feel like I should be more excited. I've had friends tell me, I thought you'd be more excited. I am excited. But I'm excited in the way you're excited about Christmas. Generally, you're super pumped up about the holiday in general. But more so when it is December and it's appropriate to hang up your holiday decor (unless you're Hobby Lobby. In that case it was apparently appropriate in August. Whole other soapbox...don't get me started...). Our dates are five weeks away. Well, closer to four now, but still. We've been waiting so long for this that it is hard to get outwardly excited when we still have ANOTHER WHOLE MONTH TO WAIT. And since we've had so many delays and so much down time, we are already prepped and ready to go. Not much to do except wait. Again.
In addition, we are feeling a little let down by the fact that, though Down Syndrome is an expedited special need (meaning they process your paperwork first and fast and give you travel dates sooner), for some unknown reason Charlie's file was marked as regular processing. So we were expecting something to happen much faster and it didn't.
Nevertheless we truly are looking forward to finally meeting Charlie and bringing him home. I will be posting updates on the blog as we make final preparations to leave and also as we travel. Keep us in your prayers and stay tuned!
