It seems the 4th time is a charm! After having our documents rejected yet again by the state of IL, my mom called them to figure out why. The lady who had rejected them was off that day, but the lady my mom spoke with couldn't tell why they were rejected. So, mom sent them back on Friday and they are now certified and on their way to her! Once she gets them, she said she's going to overnight them to our agency and they will get them Authenticated by the Crescent Moon embassy. At that point, they will get sent to Crescent Moon and then we will get our LOA!! I found out about this yesterday morning, but wasn't around my computer to update this blog. I have been on Cloud 9 ever since!! It was hard to sleep last night because I was so excited. This morning, I took our van in to have it looked at. It needs quite a bit of work (alignment, balancing, new front brakes, fuel filter, and oil change) and is going to cost 770 Euros. Not exactly chump change. Do I care? Not really! Typically somewhere around 80-110 Euros is my cutoff for freaking out about vehicle maintenance/repairs, depending on our situation that month. (We're never really hurting for money, but our European account is kept basically paycheck to paycheck, so local expenses freak me out more than most) Inside my head, my little mini-me has been in a constant happy dance. And I hate dancing! lol!! I'm not sure how I can possibly get more excited than this when we finally get our travel approval, but I'm sure I will find a way. ;-)
The only downer right now is that L has been talking daily about how excited she is to travel to Crescent Moon with us. Yesterday, she spent a considerable part of the day asking about getting her own suitcase so that she can put stuff in it to bring with her, etc. If it were up to me, she would come in a heartbeat! Heck, I would love to bring all 3 kids! But, D is very much against it. I know in my head he's probably right. But, it's so hard to tell them that they won't get to come on a trip of a lifetime to meet their new sister. DJ will probably have school, so he would be pretty easy to explain it to. N is too little to really care about the trip, but he's never really been away from me so I'm not sure what that's going to do to him (or me!) But L has her heart set on going. And when I say she "has her heart set" on it, I mean that 110%. I worry about how crushed she will be if she doesn't get to come with us. I can easily envision her crying the ENTIRE 2 weeks and hating us for not letting her come! I would love to just bring her, but then I'm not sure how the boys would feel about her getting to experience it when they don't. My ideal solution (which D thinks I'm insane for) is to take a family trip to Crescent Moon for Z's birthday. We should be close enough by that point that we can visit her, but not close enough to actually get her, so our kids would get to meet her & see the country and yet they wouldn't be a pain during any legal proceedings. Then when we actually get to travel to get her, the kids will know where we're going and won't feel like they're missing out on anything. The best of both worlds!! :-D The only downside is that we would meet Z, but not get to bring her home and that would be hard on everybody. Of course, we could just visit the country without actually meeting her too, but I'm not sure whether that would make the kids ok with not going later or just make them more excited to go when we get Z. Ah well, we have time to think it over. Besides, D doesn't even want to take that trip, so my thinking and "planning" could be all for naught....
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