Travel Approval and Plane Tickets!

So it's here!

Our Travel Approval arrived via FedEx this morning!  It happened like this.  For some reason Zemirah insisted on being worn on my back while I made breakfast this morning.  So I'm walking around the kitchen with a 35+lb toddler on my back and my hair pulled off to the side so she wouldn't play with it.  But then she pulls the tiny hairs on my neck and it really hurts.  I also happen to have a pimple on my neck and she kept telling me she didn't like it.  So there was much chatter and pulling and ow-ing and Am walks into the kitchen and says "here mom."  I look down and see this giant thing that looks like a graphing calculater and she's holding a pen.  "What's This?" I say.  "Where did you get this???"  My mind is spinning as to how she would have gotten a hold of one of Aaron's graphing calculators from college.  And she replies "The man at the door gave it to me.  Supposed to sign it."  "What?! THE MAN AT THE DOOR!?!?!"  Realization dawns..."oooohhhhh!  FedEx!  You can't sign this!" She counters with "No, he said YOU have to sign it!"  So a frazzled mom showed up at the door.  I relayed the story while I quickly signed and it gave him a good laugh.  Hopefully it made up for how much time he wasted by sitting at my door waiting for a 7 year old to come back with his signy thing.

Travel Approval is literally the LAST step to purchasing tickets to China!  And we did that today also!  We are so incredibly excited!

In my last post I mentioned how devastating it was to find out we would not be traveling in April.  Strangely things have turned out that it is good we can't travel then.  On Monday our damaged sewer line reminded us that it needs to be repaired, and it seems that repair will happen as soon as the ground is thawed, which may be in about 2 weeks.   On Tuesday my darling husband was diagnosed with mono, it seems the poor guy has to get worse before he gets better.  So, things are working out.

We didn't want to have to disrupt our lives for the sewer repair just after bringing Doron home, and we never could have predicted Aaron getting sick.  We are thankful we have time to get our house in order and let Aaron heal before leaving for China.

We are still fundraising for our trip (Which may be more costly than we originally anticipated) so if you know anyone who might like to help us get to China, you can send them to our puzzle fundraiser on Facebook by clicking here!  $10 sponsors 1 puzzle piece that will have your name or whatever you'd like written on the back.  You are welcome to sponsor as many pieces as you'd like.