tomorrow tomorrow i love ya tomorrow!

well, we leave for China tomorrow and i can't even describe how freaked out i am. wanted to give you a little run down of the goings on while we are there. we will be staying at the Holiday Inn in Hefei. it comes complete with a revolving restaurant on the top. Yes we are livin' large. we will arrive in Hefei (this is the capitol city of Ellie's province) on Saturday morning local time (it's a +15 hour time difference so were generally a day ahead) we will have a day to acclimate ourselves before Ellie arrives. we should be meeting a beautiful girl on Sunday evening. We will have a brief opportunity to talk to someone from the orphanage when we meet Ellie. During the next few days we will have several meeting with various officials and finalize Ellie's adoption. Hopefully wed. Brian will be able to visit her orphanage and takes lots of pictures. We will be traveling to Guangzhou on Friday mar 30. where we will be staying at the White Swan hotel. It is sort of the Mecca for adoptive families in China. Everything here is complete and were ready to travel were just waiting patiently for it to be time to leave for the airport. While we are gone the kids and grandma will be busy. the kids test for their next belts in Tae Kwon Do and they start spring nest week. The three of them are very excyted to be FINALLY getting there little sister home with them. just because i haven't posted any kid pics in a while here are a few just to make me happy!

WE GOT US SOME PLANE TICKETS BABY!!!!!
WOW IN 5 DAYS WE ARE HEADED TO CHINA!!!!!

haleluya!! is that how you spell that?

We are going to China baby, yes the adoption gods have finally felt pity on us and we got our consulate appointment. We are leaving on march 21st. and we will be coming home on the 4 th. somewhere in there we will meet our beautiful daughter and try to convince her
we are not completely horrible. I hope that you will join us on our journey, we could not be more excited!

no gnews is good gnews??

Well, its tuesday evening and we still don't have a consulate appointment. we are hopping to leave on friday march 23. I know that our agency is doing all that they can do to get a responce from the embassy. I think all of us are just so frustrated. but hopefully we will hear tomorrow and can start making plans. Otherwise all is well. we are thrilled to be hosting my brother and his lovely wife for easter this year. i am pretty sure that brian, ellie and i will sleep through alot of it i know that the big kids will enjoy having there aunt and uncle here. anyway hope to have good news to post tomorrow. have a great night

i'm sad today

Hi because we were unable to secure the consulate appointments that are necessary we won't be able to leave for china until at least march 23. Our agency tried very hard to get things done but when you dealing with the government it isn't always in you control. i am so sad. I don't know what else to say. ill post when there is more info. thanks

coming out of the fog and random bits

We are finally comming out of the flu fog. Everyone in the house with the exception of mom have been seriously draggin. We are still awaiting our consulate appointment so there is no itinerary to report but we are still planing to leave next friday.

I find myself experiencing a huge array of emotions these last few days. i am nervous about leaving the big kids for so long. i know that they are in the best possible hands but the process of putting all the important papers in one place so they can be found easily were something were to happen, we'll its a little sobering.
i love these kids so much and they have brought me more joy then i ever thought possible. i have also been very sad for Ellie and for all of the changes that are about to come her way. i know that ultimately she is getting a better life complete with siblings,dogs and frogs. but in the short term she is loosing EVERYTHING that she has ever known. driving in the car today i found myself crying for her losses and wishing there was an easier way for her to have come home to her family.

we're wearin our squirll coats, come on in

Well another day goes by and no news on the travel approval front. Looks like it will be another week before we hear anything. Monday i was nuts today those nuts are cracked. i am going CRAZY, i know not usually not much of a streatch but it is miles from normal. I have gone over all my lists, i can not concentrate on a quilt. In the usual Murphy lives here the Refridgerater repair man was here ning. and $200 later im not sure what he did but the fridge no longer smells like burning rubber, and congrats to my mom who quit smoking long enough ago to smell the stink, that sort of thing could drive her back to the smokes. Hopefully there will be news soon, PLEASE GOD!!