Had our travel conference call yesterday with the multitude of others who will be traveling either with us or a day after us. Since we are going to a small province (not in size, but one with few adoptions), there is only one other family with us. This means we should have a somewhat private Gotcha Day and we only have to share our Guide in Anhui with one other family. I also received an email from them about an hour ago-they are adopting a 5 year old, it is their first China adoption, they also have 3 other kids-just like us. In Beijing and Guangzhou, we should be with a bunch of other adoptive families, but for the in-province portion of the trip, it might be us and them and few other westerners.
Our Gotcha Day is officially the 26th-I can't even believe it. I am very thankful that work is crazy and I am leaving with Megs for lovely Canton, Ohio tomorrow for the weekend. The diversions are keeping me sane.
After months of looking at her pictures, I can't even imagine that in only 10 days (with the time change, probably on the nose from when I am writing this) I will meet Little Miss Z. Poor kid-I am pretty sure that she has a little working knowledge as to what is going on and what is going to happen, and I hope they are preparing her well. It really breaks my heart thinking of what she is going to go through during the next several weeks. But that is the reality of adoption-there are good things and bad things about it, but it all depends on how you view it.
Again-I will be consumed with swim this weekend, hanging with friends, enjoying my time with Megs. I will miss her and Sam a ton, and I love that I get to spend the whole weekend with her. She is so excited about Zones-her whole goal for the year was to get there, and we leave in 13 hours.
One more thing before I sign off and try to get to sleep so that I can be perky for my meeting tomorrow---up til recently, I hesitated telling anyone updates, except my super close friends and family, for fear that something would go wrong. I am sure the bankruptcy of Agency #1 had something to do with that... But, now-I'm tellin' everyone. I am telling the pharmacist, the librarian, the cashiers at the grocery store, clients, random people I meet... can't seem to contain the excitement. The kids keep laughing at me-but they also see the reactions of people and I see them and Bryan doing the same. I can say with absolute certainty that Zoey is coming to a family who is definitely excited about bringing her into our lives. I just hope that at some point, she'll stop viewing us as the abductors, and start thinking of us as family. (Eek)
Okay. I have rambled enough. Will hopefully post something coherent this weekend. Maybe.
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