WE LEAVE FOR ETHIOPIA ON MONDAY!!!!!!!!!
Because I only have one child here right now and he is sleeping, this is going to be a to the point post of what we are up to right now. I really need a nap too. We all have colds and have been running around like crazy (good crazy, but still crazy!) for the last week.
Wednesday we got confirmation of our travel date. We were planning to leave on the 1st, but while we were waiting for our confirmation, tickets went up nearly a thousand dollars a piece for that day! So we looked at some other options and ended up buying tickets to leave on Monday the 29th instead. Five days from the day we purchased them. Yikes!!
We are trying to get everything together, write wills (last minute I know), reschedule Andy's patients, get all of our paperwork together, set the boys up for while we are gone (Nana is coming to our house to watch them!!), book a hotel for Tuesday and Wednesday in ET (no luck getting through yet), do last minute shopping ($$$ yikes), get the neighbor to take care of our dogs and cat for 10 days (a nana can only take so much!), love up the boys and soak up our time with them, download pictures and charge cameras, remember our passports and tickets, and partake in all the joy of Andy's sister's wedding on Saturday. The boys are all in the wedding, they got their tuxes yesterday. The rehersal and grooms dinner were last night. We also really, really need to mow the lawn and teach Nana how to care for Andy's saltwater fish tank.
It is good to be so busy, it keeps my mind off the plane ride, until the middle of the night when I roll over and my brain starts going at a million miles an hour. I don't like to fly. At all. But I can't wait to get on that plane and get there. I can't wait to embrace Africa, Ethiopia, our daughter. I am in shock that we are actually getting ready to meet her for real, and bring her home. Shock. I won't believe it until we are home. It is so surreal. Amazing. Heartbreaking and beautiful. Tirfe, you ARE abundance.
Wish us well and send mojo to me for peace on the flight, it would mean a lot to me. :)
Off to nap. Aesa, please keep those beautiful eyes closed for just another hour or so.
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Sending all my best your way. I know you will fall in love with Ethiopia and will come home a changed person. Get some sleep and get ready to be spoiled, exhausted and overwhelmed. I wish you and Andy luck with all your flights and bring lots of tissue. The walk up the 4 flights of stairs to meet Tirfe will seem like an eternity and I cried from the very first step all the way up. Can't wait to hear about your trip.
Wow Sara! MONDAY!!! Have a wonderful time at the wedding. We'll be thinking of you all :)
Goosebumps. Sending you all of the love I possibly can for safe travels and a wonderful experience! I can't wait for you to get back. Good luck Nana! Call if you need anything! LOVE, Kate & Chad
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