Hurry Up and Wait

Our dossier was completed and sent to China on September 27th - that's our DTC - date to China. Then we waited We waited as it got translated. We waited as it was delivered to the correct department in China and we waited to be told of our official Log In Date - LID. We got a wonderful call in November to say that our Log In Date was October 31st. Yay!!

Now what? Well, wait of course! Wait for the coveted Letter of Acceptance - LOA. Wait, drive myself nuts wondering this, wondering that. Drive the family nuts too! Hello Thanksgiving! Goodbye Thanksgiving. Hello Christmas. Goodbye Christmas. Hello New Year. New Year - won't you please just bring us some news???

We've been remodeling a space upstairs to make room for another. Tired of painting and scrubbing and wallowing in dust, Molly and I head off for Target to get some new towels for the upstairs bathroom. Perhaps new towels will ease the pain of waiting. Doesn't the world know the ache in a mother's heart when a piece of it sits in another country, firmly attached to a child she's been loving without ever having met that child? It's like a jigsaw puzzle with a piece missing, and until you find the piece, the puzzle's not finished and it's not whole.

January 3rd, 2008. Bought towels. Pain still there. Crud. Can't we just hear something?? Ringgggggggg Ringgggggggg. Cell phone's ringing - where is it? I know it's in my purse. Hello?
our darling Ky at AAI is on the other end to tell us that IT'S here!! We got our LOA. What a joyful call to get!! "This is so awesome Ky, what do we do now?"

Ky tells me, "We get you to sign the LOA and we return it to China and then we wait for Travel Approval - TA".

Did she just say 'wait'? Again?????