Today There are Tears

Here it is - a beautiful Saturday afternoon in NC, and I am here, sitting in my kitchen, typing through tears.  Things are moving right along with the Department of Immigration.  They've had our application for 2 weeks now and we just received our fingerprint appointments in the mail yesterday.  Fortunately, we were assigned to their Durham office - the other NC option being Charlotte.  So next Friday, we will go get those done and shortly there after we should receive our approval to bring a child home from China.  This is great, because it doesn't look like it will take the full 90 days at this point.  Keep praying!!!

So why are there tears?  Because I'm a girl.  Because I'm a mom.  Because my Type-A personality hates waiting for other people to do their jobs, even if they're doing it well.  I want my son, what can I say?  The US Department of State handled our issue with the unknown signatures and forwarded our packet on to the Embassy.  More good news.  The bad part - that was 2 weeks ago, and we haven't gotten anything back from them.  The Embassy has had our packet for 2 weeks, their process runs about 7 business days, and our return FedEx isn't in the system yet.  Granted, they received it on a Friday, and one of those days was a US holiday (Think the Chinese Embassy closed for Memorial Day??), but, I can't help but be terrified that something is wrong or that something has gotten lost in the shuffle of it all. I'm sure it's all okay, but I just want my son!

We have some friends who travelled to China to pick up their son back in February.  They keep a blog going as well, and it's been so fun to look at pictures of their family coming together with their sweet boy.  But, man!  It also makes the fact that I am here and my son is still there an even bigger reality.  So, today there are tears.  Today, the emotions are flying high.  Today, I am mourning the time I am missing with my boy.  Today, my arms ache a little more than they did yesterday.  Today, there are tears.

Thank you again for all of your prayers.  Please keep them coming.  Love you all!