It just gets better and better! I was practically airborne when I heard from our adoption agency on Friday, letting us know the appointment dates that have been set up for us at IHNFA. Less than three weeks and we get to see our newest little guy!! We made our flight arrangements, made reservations at the Humuya Inn, and have been getting the rest of our preparations taken care of before the trip. So much to do! We need to have updated letters from our doctor, recent employment letters, and recent police department checks, so I'm going to be running around this week trying to take care of those things. The documents must be notarized and apostilled too, so I'll be making some trips to the Secretary of State's office as well. I also need to finish up a little photo book I'm making for the little guy (one that he won't be able to rip apart or chew through), get some other items we need, and take care of several other details before the trip. Lots to do, but it will be so great to see our new honey in person, and hold him, and snuggle with him, and just breathe him in, that I don't mind anything. It is so worth it.
It's still kind of surreal to think that we have a new little son and that we will be traveling very soon to meet him. We have been waiting for this for over 2 1/2 years, praying for this child for over 2 1/2 years, and that we are finally at the stage where we are very close to seeing him with our very own eyes, is just almost hard to believe.
I have been noodling around in my brain trying to figure out what we were doing on the day he was born. I don't know as of yet, but I am really interested in seeing if we can figure it out. He was born on Monday, December 13, 2010, and at that point in the game, our dossier had been submitted to IHNFA and was under review. We had already heard the request for the actual test results from our physicals and had submitted those reports. We had not yet received word that they wanted more information in our psychological reports. We were just in a waiting period. So no real clues there. Mario was 5 1/2 and in kindergarten, and Erik was 4 1/2 and in pre-K. Because it was a Monday, Erik would have been off school that day, so we were likely doing some fun activity. That year, I was room mother for Mario's class, and given that it was the week before Christmas, we were probably getting ready for the class Christmas party. The weekend before I would have been singing in our big Christmas concert as part of the Archdiocesan choir, something that we had been preparing for for a couple months. The concert itself was wonderful -- a real highlight for me. But on December 13th, I would have been all done with the concert, would have turned in all our Christmas music, and hadn't yet received the music for our next event. Also, I was part of the team that was preparing for our parish's first women's ACTS retreat, which was tremendous. Certainly, I would have been thinking about my part in the retreat and preparing for that. What else? It was the day before my birthday. But I can't pinpoint anything in particular. I think I am going to have to review old calendar entries and any old emails that I might still have so see if there are any other clues. And for the record, nine months prior, we were in the home study process. We had had the second meeting with our social worker, but had not yet received the final report. Which means that God had been preparing our hearts for him, even before he was conceived. Is that amazing or what? I'm tearing up just thinking about it.
We're coming, little sweetie! We love you so much, and we're coming!!!