NINE DAYS !

I can not believe we are so close to finally being with our little guys again. Since my last post was so short- sorry ! I couldnt write I was too excited :) -  I will take a minute to back up and let everyone know how everything went down.

We had heard that the embassy was down and that It would take about a week to hear anything. By Monday  I was pumped- and ready for dates. But we got an email from our agency that it would likely take another "couple days" to hear anything-- So technically it would have been Wednesday or Thursday. I joked with some friends on Thursday morning that "technically" it had been a "couple days", but I wasn't really expecting dates. Especially by the time Noon rolled around and we hadnt heard anything. I went to pick up Ethan from school around 230, and around 330 I was checking my email when it popped up from the agency. She just said "hey can you be here the 29th" uhm what? ABSOLUTELY !  haha.

Because my phone broke on Monday I had no way to contact my husband , mom or mother in law. I decided to EMAIL them the good news-- but my mom was the only one that got it. So I wrote the blog post and shared it. One of my friends works with my husband and ran up to his floor to let him know- Imagine that for a minute LOL. And because they work for a cell phone provider call center his coworkers were giving him a hard time that I didnt have a phone :)

We started working on trying to book flights. We ended up booking for 2/28-3/22. This meant that we would have to pay for 2 more days in the apartment ($400). We were just minutes away from booking those flights (Because we were getting them at an AWESOME deal- way less than we expected!) When we got an email from the agency saying our in country team thinks we will be done with everything in about 20 days. We looked into those flights and they were $521 more. But our flights are non-refundable, so even if we are done with everything early we cant leave the country any earlier without losing our tickets and having to buy new ones to come home.  We know that we will miss our littles something awful while we are away but considering our extremely tight financial situation currently we weighed the options and chose the cheaper airfare.

I know logically, this makes sense. Our budget says this is what we can do. But my heart is already hurting. We will drive up to NJ on Feb 26 so that the littles can stay with my mother in law while we are gone. She will drive us to the airport on Sat (Feb27) and we will leave really early Sunday (1245am). We will be in country until March 22. I have never left my kids this long. I know they will be fine and have so much fun, but I really wish we could just stuff 'em in our suitcases and bring them with us.

In the grand scheme of things this will be nothing- we will look back and it wont even matter. But for now, it totally sucks.

BUT ! We are so so so excited to finally be with Owen again. We have waited so long to see him, and he has waited even longer for a family. Once we have our court decree, we will legally be his parents and I can finally blow up Facebook with all of his cuteness !! So if you are one of those people that get annoyed by people who post their kids- delete me now ;)

I am excited to fianlly get back to his country- with all of its beauty <3<3

We Leave in EIGHT days, arrive in his country in NINE.

We are still fundraising- and just $1,975 from FULLY FUNDED. Will you help us get there ? <3 <3