Well, after getting crisp bills to take on the trip, contacting the travel agent to schedule flights, scheduling vacation time, emailing the coordinator with questions, calling six toy stores looking for a Gund Kiana doll in stock, reordering the doll to be delivered by overnight express mail (this $13 doll has gotten really expensive), meeting Mark to notarize the new FBI prints and I-171H, contacting our visa card to let them know we will be traveling, calling my parents, making a list of gifts to buy, making "to do" lists for Mark and me, checking the cost of upgrading our Vonage home phone to international rates for 1 month ($10), and being awake most of the night in anticipation, we got another email saying that they aren't going to get our approval letter this week. We aren't leaving in 4 days after all. Now they are saying that we may travel on July 21. Ugh! I was feeling frantic with so much to do, but I had my heart set on leaving this weekend.
This is exactly why international adoption isn't for the faint-hearted. In a second, all of our planning was thrown out the window; emotions plummeted from panicked enthusiasm to tired disappointment. Now, I just feel exhausted...
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