Agency Closed.....Again

Our agency is really getting hit hard by this storm. It is expected to end tonight but I really do not expect anyone to be in the office tomorrow. Actually I'd be surprised if they went in at all this week. Which means we would get all of our travel items (passport, visas, and plane tickets) the day before we leave! *faint* Did I mention I'm feeling a bit stressed?!?! I'm trying to trust in the Lord but feeling a bit overwhelmed right now.

On a positive note we were able to fix our problems with Skype! I fix the problem on our main PC and a wonderful friend fixed it for us on the laptop! It was very easy but I had no clue what I was doing. LOL It will be great to be able to talk with our children when we are gone.

Please keep praying for us and our travel group.

2 Weeks

Can you believe it! In two weeks we will meet our Evan! Time is going by so fast and before we know it we will be on the plane flying to China. We are busy doing last minute preparations.

We will not receive our itinerary today as the agency was hit by that massive snow storm over the weekend and is closed for the day. We are praying we will receive it tomorrow. We know that at least two other families are arriving early as well as us.

We are having problems with Skype. :( I hope to have that fixed before we leave otherwise I'll be one sad momma! If anyone has any ideas or has BTDT let me know what worked for you. We leave in 9 days!

So Excited!

It's official, we have Rosa and Maggie for our guides! That made our day yesterday. We had both of them on our first trip to China as guides when we went in 2007 to adopt Lia and we'll have them again this time. We had our travel meeting yesterday. There were some problems with the phone lines so we have no idea if we have anyone going to province with us or not. We do know that there are older children being adopted but I'm not sure of the ages. We have a whooping 12 families in our group with the potential of one or two more families joining.

We are traveling during the most expensive time of the year. The bigger the group the better it will be for hotel discounts though. We should have our itinerary early next week. Wondering who our guide in province will be. It still seems unreal to me but I am excited and nervous all at once.

We are less than two weeks from leaving for China!

Travel Meeting

Can you believe we have our travel meeting Thursday! We are so excited! Time is just flying by so fast. We can't wait to find out if there is anyone else going to province with us and how many people are in our travel group. What we really want to know is who our guides will be. We're praying it will be Maggie and Rosa. If not then we will meet up with Rosa while we are in Beijing. :)

Next week we should receive our itinerary!

Concrete Travel Dates

We have definite travel dates. We will be leaving February 17th and returning home March 5th. Our Metcha Day will be February 22nd and we can not wait to meet Evan! Our CA appointment will be March 2nd and that should be the rest of our appointments. We have our airline tickets purchased already, it's just a matter of waiting a few weeks to board the plane to leave. As of right now we have 7 other families traveling with us and have the potential of 12 all together.


We leave three weeks from tomorrow! :)

Long Road

We are waiting to hear back from our travel coordinator about our CA but we are planning on leaving February 18th and returning March 5th! It feels great to have definite dates and know that we will be leaving in less than a month to meet our son. Tomorrow we will be a busy day making phone calls to various doctors and schools for him. Holy Cow I can't believe it!

Gearing Up

It's amazing what a date does for ones mind. Just knowing that we will leave (95% sure) on February 18th to meet Evan feels great! I remember telling other adoptive friends last year when we started this process that we would not travel until February or March. As time went by and things were looking up I thought we could go in January. It would have been possible if there was no paperwork mix ups but that was not meant to be. I also remember stating (way,way back) very clearly that I did not want to go to China again in the dead of winter! Nor did I want to come home to long, cold, dark days where we would be stuck in the house all day.

If my calculations are right we will leave Feb. 18th and return March 4th or 5th. The weather in China should be warmer than the record breaking freezing temps they are experiencing now not to mention Daylight Savings Time starts the following week! :D Winter will be almost over! OK we will have another 4-5 weeks when we return but that's not bad!

The pain management center that I go to was able to get me in at the end of the month for a nerve block in my neck. I'm praying that helps relieve some of the pain that I've been having. I'll also get to see my neurosurgeon the next day for follow up. I'll be glad to have those two appointments out of the way. Then today Lia's developmental doctor called and said they had a cancellation next week and wanted to know if we could do her Botox injections! Oh yes please!

There are just a handful of items needed from our packing list. I'm glad to have started early. I found a nice winter coat for Evan that was clearanced dirt cheap. The only thing we need now is our TA!