Life is back to normal

Today finally felt like life was getting back to normal!

Em felt up to going to church today after spending the entire day in her jammies yesterday and the day before....and the day before that hahaha! I actually had planned on her staying home today for an extra day of rest but she insited that she was up to it! She had fun at her sunday school and then we all went out to breakfast together. Then it was off to sleep for Tim (he worked last night) and the kids, my mom and I headed off to see Bedtime Stories (Very cute movie FYI) then to the grocery, doing the laundry....just a normal day for us!

I am so happy to have all of this behind us and to return to obsessing about bringing our son home!! We were disappointed to learn that we were not able to get our Dossier to China in January! We are really hopeful to have our dossier in the mail this week. It was Chinese New Year this past week and I do believe that was a big reason for our hold up. All in all...if immigration had taken the 90 days they quoted that would have been Jan 20th. So I am still not doing too bad if we can be DTC this week.

I have learned that adoption is full of hurry up and wait. It was rush rush rush to hurry up and get physicals, psych evals, passports ect for our dossier. Then it was hurry up and get our homestudy to immigration so we can wait....Then hurry and get our dossier to the secretary of state and wait....then to the chinese consulate and wait..... You get the idea :-)

Once we are DTC then we hurry up and wait for a log in date (LID) It is taking somewhere around 90 days from LID to LOA (Letter of Acceptance) Then another 4 weeks or so for our TA (Travel Approval) So we are still on target to travel early to mid summer! I can tell you Tim and I are getting excited!

We are starting to make our time waiting count by discussing discipline, travel arrangements ect.. It is a bit mind boggling to think of being that far from home, from everything that is familiar to half way around the world with a child who doesnt know us and is 2 years old on top of it all. How scary for both of us. Tim was telling me that we need to pick kid friendly places to eat....Ummmmm I will be lucky to figure out what we are eating HAHAHA

Any tips or tricks from any of you world travelers would be awsome!