3 months...

Us at our Ike Shower. Unfortunately, this is the best picture of us from the party :(

It has been three really emotionally exhausting months since we found out about little Ike.

Before we knew about him I thought that waiting for the referral was so hard. I thought every day they would call me. For some reason I had a particular day in mind that they would call. When that day past I was upset and confused because I consider myself to be somewhat of a psychic. (Yes, I do know it sounds weird. But I am usually pretty good at predicting things. I have not been able to harness this power to win the lottery, although I have predicted other life changing events.)

So this particular day that I had been waiting for came and past and I was upset. I thought they would never call. Then one day they did. I had no idea they were going to call and it was shocking.

Now here I am coming up on the date I have imagined that we would get the call to travel to go pick him up, September 21. "Why September 21?", one might ask? Because I have imagined that I would get a call around my birthday (September 20 for anyone who is interested in buying me a present. Two tickets to S. Korea would be nice...) and Luke has very important meetings all that next week and I have classes that I must take Oct. 1.

This is how it works in my mind. September 21st is a Monday. I'll be busy doing something. the phone will ring. I'll be annoyed because I'm so busy or have my hands full. I'll see that it's Dillon. I'll momentarily freak then answer the phone. I'll say, "Hello, this is Amber" (like I always do) She'll say "hello Amber, how are you?", "fine", I'll say. She'll go on to say "We have travel clearance" or "are you ready to go pick up your son" or something similar.

I will be anxious to get off the phone to call Luke, but I won't be able to get a hold of him because he is in the important meeting or is giving a presentation. He'll finally call me back super excited but will not be able to leave work.

I will, of course, have nothing prepared. I will not have packed a bag for me or Ike. I will not have learned Korean like I keep saying I will. I will not have made arrangements for our dogs. I will go to the mall to prepare myself outfits, after I find us flights.

Hopefully, I will have knitted the appropriate people presents. I am currently learning to knit. I already sew and crochet among other things and I am not good at any of them. But now I am learning to knit. I took this on due to the look of a foster mom on one of the Blogs I stalk. The woman of the blog I stalk is currently in Korea picking up her beautiful son. She presented the foster mom a fantastic scarf she knitted and I could tell the FM was very impressed. This is what I'm going for.

I do have the time now....Since I am without me contracting gig and have elected not to go after new real estate business due to my hopefully pending travel and maternity leave. So now, as of tomorrow, I am without work. :) I am looking forward to some time. This year has been full of work and extra work and months of no days off. Wish me luck and hope I immediately don't start applying for jobs or randomly change careers. It has happened many times before......