Update

We will be traveling sometime between December 10th and 12th and picking up Pearl on December 15th. I sent off our entry visas today and we have one more form to complete and get notarized. And of course, need to figure out those airline tickets.

I have been a bit frenzied needless to say...I've lost a few things, forgotten even more and can't sleep. It is all just too exciting (and a little scary)!

Pearl will turn one on January 13th.

I have planned a party for Pearl's arrival--January 17th. We will get her baptised January 18th.

More details

We could be traveling as soon as December 5th and have our Giving and Receiving Ceremony on December 8th. My head is spinning!!!!

We will be there two weeks.

I will keep everyone posted as I learn more.

Thank you all for your offers of help and support.

The Best Gift Lyrics

The best giftThat I ever got
Didn’t really weigh a lot
It didn’t have a ribbon ’round
And it sometimes made a terrible sound
But best of all it seems to me
It wasn’t neath the christmas tree
And yet, I guess I’d have to say
That it made all the other presents twice as gay
The best gift that I’ve ever known
I’d always wanted most to own
Yet in my dreams of sugar and spice
I never thought it could be so nice
The best gift that I ever get
Was sometimes dry and sometimes wet
Was usually pink but oftentimes red
As it lay so innocently in it’s bed
The best gift of the year to me
The one I hold most dear to me
A gift that simply drove me wild
Was a tiny new born child...

Barbars Streisand

Thanks Dana for sharing!

We got IT!

We received our preliminary approval tonight via email. There is a laundry list of things we need to do but ultimately we should be leaving for Vietnam in the next few weeks! I am in shock! I cannot believe this day has finally arrived.

Fingerprints approved!

No surprise here....I knew our fingerprints were good but we must satisfy the bureaucratic beast!

Otherwise no update.

But extremely excited about the general election results. This will be the turning point that our country has needed. I really believe people are going to come together regardless of their differences. Already, the mood and morale feels hopeful. Now waiting to January 20th might be difficult!