APPROVAL!!!!!!!!!

Aaaahhhhhhh! We have approval! Approval, people! Know what that means? Well, probably not, so I will tell you. The K.orean gov't has given permission for M/H/#4/OUR SON, to leave the country. Now we need the US embassy to do their part and away we go. So we have been told to expect our travel call in 1-3 weeks!! I am so excited. I can't stand it. We have brought the suitcase up, pulled out some clothes and today I bought DIAPERS!!!!!! Not sure I have been this excited for diapers since baby T came along. Plus, I have posted more than once a month too!! Yay me! We still have some things to buy, like a high chair (got rid of ours). And some gifts. But we are pretty ready. So.excited.

Tick tock and travel plans

I hate to rush time along, but I am super excited for July to get here.  Time is moving faster than I expected, I'm sure it will slow down the closer we get.  I think we are inside a month now...I hope.  We have contacted a great booking agent and reserved a hotel for the anticipated dates.  Lots of travel this time of year to Seoul, so hotels are often booked.  Hoping to avoid some stress of trying to find a room last minute.  Made the decision about airfare, so things are falling into place.  S is gone for training the rest of this week and again Mid-July.  Part of me wishes we would get our call and it lines up perfectly with the plans we have made, but truthfully the sooner the better for me!!!
We finally started to actually take the paper links of the chain, and I think it is helping the kids see that we are getting there.
Going to try to be better about my blog, I want to be able to look back and read this excitement and anticipation.

I'm horrible at blogging...

People who know me know I have a lot to say. My parents say I never stop talking! But the writing down my millions of thoughts seems to be where I shut up (hey, mom don't wish you knew that years ago??) Anyway, on nights where S is working (like tonight) I often find myself sitting quietly with the tv off. I always plan to blog and instead get engrossed in other's blogs. I have been blessed with a talkative husband and not shockingly 3 very chatty cherub children! Now I often find that I have lots to say, but no time to say it. But a blog? I should be able to ramble on here and later go backand read my many thoughts. Plus, S could read them and then I wouldn't drive him crazy with my constant lost thoughts. Ok, there was a sample of ramblings from my brain. Whats going on around here?? We are waiting. WAITING! Much like we have been doing for almost 2 1/2 years. Somehow this waiting is different, distracting, mind consuming. We are. SO.CLOSE. SO CLOSE. I almost can't stand it. I wish I could go back to being slightly distracted by the everyday, but no such luck. I have started buying gifts (thanks CraftyD) and even have a piece of jewelry being made by an amazing artist. I have his toothbrush and some new pjs for the flight home. I feel like I know all possible flight patterns from the us to S.Korea for July. I have even memorized a portion of the map of Seoul. WAITING, still waiting. That paperchain we made over a year ago that was suppose to represent the next 56 weeks of waiting, well it is finally being taken apart, day by day. But the truth that makes me nervous, I don't want to jinx anything. I'd like to start getting some things into a suitcase but I just can't yet...too real, too scared something could happen, delay us more. So we wait...and know that soon the wait wil be over.

EP....submitted!!!!!

It has happened, the event we have been waiting for since January of this year.  Our boy's paperwork was submitted, which is the 1st step in the final steps to get him home!!!!  I was sitting in training out of the are when I picked up my phone to see a message from S saying something about almost missing the phone b/c he was going to mow.  I opened it and read backwards to the text that said "don't scream out loud in class....J called....he was SUBMITTED!!!  AAHHHHHHHHHHHH.  I almost did scream out loud, but refrained.  A couple tears fell, but thanks to allergies, no one seemed to notice the difference.
So now we wait some more.  As I have told friends and family, now at least the wait is more finite.  Anywhere from 8-12 weeks from approval to travel. 
Stay tuned for the our next news!
I have felt so blessed at the response everyone has had when they got our text, or read my FB post.  He is clearly loved by so many more people here than just the C clan, and it warms my heart that soon he will be here to feel all that love.