I'm a lucky girl!!

What a weekend we've had!! I'm exhausted!
Friday after work, Jeff and I left for Indianapolis to spend the night. We stayed at a cheap chain hotel and they upgraded us to a suite for some reason. Couch, microwave, fridge, but--oh yeah, NO CLOCK!! Not ONE clock in the entire room!! I thought this was very odd. We had a ton of TV channels, but didn't know what time it was unless we kept the TV on CNN......weird!!
We knew we had to get up around 6:30am, so of course I kept my watch on the night stand and every hour or so would get up and try to check the time. In a completely dark room...so I just kind of waited until the sky got lighter and checked the time and it was 6:30 on the dot. I felt like a pioneer or something----awake with the sun!
When we got to the hotel Fri. night around 10pm, "Nightmare on Elm Street" had just started. Now, if I was at home, downstairs alone, KNOWING that my family was just upstairs, I would NEVER watch this, or any other scary movie. I can't even watch commercials for scary movies (and, by the way, ever since seeing "The Ring", I can't let the TV go to fuzzy snow or I freak out!!) Anyway, knowing I had Jeff trapped the whole time right beside me, I hunkered down to watch the entire movie---until midnight!
I have to say, that movie is really great!! Johnny Depp all preppy and clean cut, such a cutie!! He actually looked like he smelled good--ahh, the good old days! I remember when that movie came out on video. I was a freshman in high school and our group of friends would rent it EVERY weekend and watch it at least twice everytime for the whole year!! Hey, when you're only 14 and can't drive, can't date and live in a town with one stoplight, you have to make your own fun!! And legal fun at that, I might add!
But I digress......
Saturday, we went to our agency's informational meeting, which will count as our 3rd of 4 homestudy meetings. It was so nice to already know most of the info. and to be so "seasoned"! I have to say that if we hadn't already experienced the things we were there to learn about, we would've left that meeting with our head spinning! But, I have to admit, we were feeling a little smug knowing that "na-na-na-na-na---we know how to do this!!"
We did get to meet a couple who adopted last February. They brought their daughter and we were able to ask questions and see their pictures. Jeff is so afraid that he's going to be toast when our little girl looks at him and says "pweeze doddy" like she did. SOOO CUTE!!
We got back home from Indy Sat. around 3:30 and then left at 5:00 (dogs and cats are NOT happy with us!!) to go to my grandpa's 90th birthday party!! Seeing this in black and white, I have to admit, doesn't sound like the coolest way to spend a Sat. night, but with my family, it's the most fun I can think of!!
It was a wonderful time, we laughed, we cried!!
I'm a very lucky girl. I have the most amazing family. Immediate family, extended family and even pseudo-family---the people who really aren't related by blood, but are always there. When I was little it used to make me so sad for all the other people in the world that weren't me!! Honestly!
I am so blessed to have come from the people that I have.
I am truly blessed that I have married someone that continues to provide me with the love and acceptance that I've been used to all my life.
I am blessed beyond belief that I have the opportunity to have the daughter I've always wanted.
All I had to do was look at my husband and say "Pweeze doddy!!!" Oh, yeah, he's toast!!

Cautious optimism

I heard from the post office last Friday. They said that they spoke with someone at the Indy USCIS and that our I600A was logged in there on March 6th. It sounds legit, but, man, when you start thinking about all the things that can go wrong, you drive yourself crazy!!
Honestly, I mean, why wouldn't this information be valid and true? I don't know why I'm having such a hard time just believing it, but I am......stupid, I know.
So, I am cautiously optimistic that at this time, things are going the way they should be going.
We're all going to get our official physicals tomorrow. Bonus--we get to leave work early and spend more time together.
But, MAN!!! I HATE going to the doctor. I hate needles, I hate waiting for test results. yuck, yuck, yuck.
If I think back about my pregnancy though, this is way better! Only one doctor visit, no rapid weight gain, no stretch marks, no hospitilization, no restricition on what I can eat, drink or do! So, OK, it's not so bad!
Our paperwork is coming along. We still need to go get our local police clearance, which shouldn't be too bad since I think our whole dept. consists of 3 people! (yes, humming the "Andy Griffith" theme song would be appropriate at this time)

C-R-A-P--CRAP!! CRAP!! CRAP!!!

Our 1-600A forms, birth certificates and MONDO check are LOST SOMEWHERE between here and there!!!!! OHHHH!!
I sent them out last Tuesday, priority mail. They should've gotten there by Thursday if I had used REGULAR MAIL!!! I made the (un)wise decision to get a tracking number. I have checked on it EVERYDAY and it hasn't gotten there yet. I called the post office I mailed it from and they lady was basically like "WHAT???? It's not there yet? Even if you had sent it SNAIL mail it should be there by now!!!" Um, thanks lady. That makes me feel SO MUCH better! She and her manager are checking up on it (as much as they can). She said that she's thinking it was delivered and just wasn't scanned. Best case scenario.
I'm not a best case scenario-half glass full kind of girl---so I'm freaking out.
I am not a happy camper right now, and if I kept on writing, I would just bring everyone down, so I will stop now and post again when (IF!!!) I ever have any good news.
blech!

If this is what happens when the FedEx lady comes, we're in for a world of hurt!

Well, our state certified birth certificates arrived today, FedEx. I was so worried I wasn't going to be home to sign for them. Well, I was. And so were my kitties. We had just settled down to watch Laverne & Shirley and "stomp, stomp, stomp" we hear someone on the porch. Which, one would think would be the logical way to approach the front door. Obviously, my kitties aren't the most logical thinking beings in the world. They acted like it was the end of the freakin' world!!! They slid across the wood floor (think Scooby Doo or Fred Flinstone where they can't get the traction to actually move and just flail their feet), both kitties slid into each other and then into the table, knocking everything over. Then they hightailed it upstairs and I haven't seen them since! All this, of course happened in ear shot of the shell shock FedEx lady. I opened the door and she kind of took a step back. Can't say I blame her, it sounded like someone was being attacked! Well, God bless her, she handed my my package and hightailed it out of there in a jiffy! Fantastic----HOW many more FedEx packages are we going to be expecting??
I wonder if FedEx has any influence in the adoption process ("don't let THIS one have a baby. There's some WEIRD stuff going on in there!")
Also on the fantastic side, we have our first home visit Monday. Meaning our social worker will be coming ONTO the porch to get into our house.
Maybe the kitties need to take a mini vacation!