One More Week :-)

Today, we had our last travel conference call.  It is hard to believe that this time next week, we will be landing in Detroit to change planes for Beijing.  I can't help but wonder if she knows yet.  Is she scared, nervous or happy......maybe all three.  I know I am.  I feel like I know her but truly, I don't.  I just know that I love her.  The file we received back in April said that she was shy.  I can't imagine a shy person in this family.  But it might be nice for a change.  Jeremy and I have been trying to enjoy our last nights of quite sleep.  We expect that she will have a hard time adjusting to everything new.  Many of the children that come here from China have night terrors or fear going to sleep once they get home.  It can take several weeks or months for them to sleep soundly through the night........that is something that we are not use to.

 

We've been slowly starting to pack our bags.  It seems like I've spent so much money on medicine and vitamins and just little things for the trip.  We are trying to keep everyone healthy before we leave and while we are in China.  Pray that we will be able to.  The boys have been doing extra school work to try and ease the load that we take with us.  I know our free time will be limited and YiLin will need our attention too.

 

We have our itenerary and know what we will be doing each day and where we will be.  I'm not really concerned about the schedule with the exception of our Gotcha Day.  "Gotcha Day" is the turm used by the adoption community for the day we meet and take YiLin with us.  The day after that will be the day that we sign all the paperwork and make it official.  That is a pretty important day too.  There will also be the day that we are sworn in as her parents.  Another important day is the medical exam day.  YiLin will be tested for TB and given one last look over by the doctors.  We go back the next day to have her test read.  Pray for a negative reading.  Otherwise, we will have to stay in China longer for her treatment before they will allow her to leave.

 

I am not really stressed out right now.  That is a great thing.  I know that may come next week as our travel day gets here.  We tend to be uptight anyway and especially when we are going so far away for so long.  I have so many different lists laying around now that I am using to mark off and then add something else to it.  And no, I still haven't bought a car seat......gotta do that before Thursday morning.  We still need to roll all the spare change that we have been collecting for the past year.  Cashing in aluminum cans has given us some spending money too.  We also have to get the cows, chickens, dogs, cat, and lizard taken care of.  I'm so grateful to my brother Scottie and my sister Karen for helping out with that.