I just had to say it, didn't I?


Do you know when things are bad and you stupidly say, well, now I know that things can only get better from now on? That is totally inviting the universe to show you just how many things you cannot control. We have happily enjoyed our late log in date and that status for one day when we get the "Friday China program update" on our email. In this email they tell us that things have REALLY slowed down. So when we started the process, it was 6 months to referral. When the paperwork went in, they said 8-10 months when we sent things in in January. When we sent things off to China, they advised it could be 12-18 months and now after the log in date, we have been told 18-24 months. Yes, that is 2 years from now. So if you do the math, that would mean around May of 2008, we could get a referral for a child. And probably travel in the early summer. Although, that is when the Beijing Olympics are, so they would probably slow things down for that, so.... it may a very long while until this actually occurs.

Wow, this blog supposed to be a humorous narrative of the whole process but has been a real downer as of late. Sorry about that. I guess it just speaks to the roller coaster process where you hear good things one day, and the next something else is going on. Ugh.

On the positive side, this now means that I have 2 years to do all sorts of random things before we need to get ready, and I will be unemployed- because I took a leave of absence thinking we'd be leaving this time next year.... so now I have this huge open space and I need to decide what to do to fill it. What would you do if you could take an entire year off and do whatever you wanted? Go back to school, volunteer, get a new job, or would you ask for your old job back? I am really unsure as to what I want to do! I think I may spend the summer looking around seeing what my options are and not come up with anything until the fall. My fall back plan is substitute teaching, which while it will give me a chance to see my old friends and students, gets old, because you can only show the same movie 6 times in a row every day, or get stuck with the unruly classes with no real consequences so many times.

Short term goal is training for this triathlon in August. I'll probably spend the summer taking more swimming lessons, training sessions, bike rides, and go from there. Maybe I'll dedicate my life to doing ironman triathlons all over the world. Or, I could become a barista at Starbucks. I just don't know!
:)