3 Days

Wow, In just 3 days we will be getting on a plan to Ethiopia to meet M. I can not wait. I am both scared, excited, nervous, terrified, happy all at the same time. I never thought we'd actually get to this day when we started this journey. It has happened so fast it seems from September to now.

We have 3 very large suitcases 2 of which are donations. That is if I can stop myself from buying more in the meantime. Might end up being 4 suitcases:) Good thing about that is the donation suitcases will be empty once we get there so I will have a blast trying to fill them back up with new purchases over there. Of course Jim says just cause we have them does not mean we need to fill them up. I say what a waste that would be shipping back empty ones. He obviously doesn't know me very well.

One thing I can not wait for is the messes around the house to be clean again.

Our dinning room looks like a war zone. It has been trip central for the past month. Our dinning room table has served a different purpose than intended. We do not eat at because we can not. There is still stuff to be packed all over it. Most people would hide the packing nightmare but not me I want to walk by it everyday so it reminds me of things I need to get done or pack.

This will be the last weekend before our table will resume to the normal status of feeding the masses.

Well not sure if I will be able to blog while there but my niece will try to keep it updated with any new info for me while I am gone. 3 days, 3 days, seems like lifetime from now but will be here in just 3 day:)

2 weeks

In just 15 short days we will board a plane for the trip of our lifetime. I am so excited I can hardly contain it anymore. Going to the hospital to have both of our children was exciting and scary but this is different. We've seen our son's face we know what he looks like. We will be meeting him for the first time in a place neither of us ever thought we'd be.

No Doctors, no nurses, no family in the waiting room for support. Just us meeting this scared little boy who we have only seen in pictures. Hoping he warms up to these two strangers.

We will know what he looks like but he has never seen us not even in pictures.

I just pray God will prepare him for us. That he will somehow know why we are there and how loved he will be.

15 days, doesn't seem to long but feels like an eternity to me.