D-Day

Today is Miss Elliot's due date...and she's missin' her own party! Fashionably late. She's gonna be cool like that.

I was SO ANXIOUS about her coming and when I woke up this morning at 4 with nothing but the braxton-hicks contractions I was sad that she still wasn't here. I'm uncomfortable but the main reasons I was stressed about this was
1. My mom has been in town since the 17th and I feel personally responsible that she is having to stay so long with nary a baby in sight. She doesn't mind and we have had fun with Griffin but I still feel pressure to perform :)

2. The adoption. Weird, I know but our agency had told us that they wanted a 9 month gap from when she was born and when we bring home our kid(s) from Rwanda. Every day she didn't come was adding to that wait list that has already been so long and I didn't realize until today that it was the main cause of my stress.

We talked to our case worker from Gladney today and she had spent the past couple of weeks in Africa so she told us all about that and then told us something that made me want to drive to Dallas and kiss her. They no longer are making us wait the 9 months! Whenever the ministry give us an approval and referral we can accept and travel and be done with the adoption! I'm so relieved I don't care if Elliot waits another 2 weeks to join us. Except for the fact that I want to see/kiss her face so bad it hurts.

It may be the first time our pediatrician gets the question, "Now how long do we need to wait before taking her to Africa for about 5 weeks?" during her hospital checkup...but....such is life. I'm so excited that we don't have to add another wrench into this adoption that I could dance...if I could physically move enough to do anything that looked like dancing...

They are also not changing our age request so we could get 1-2 siblings for Griff and Elliot between the ages of 6 months and 2...may be artificial twinning which we originally wanted to avoid but at this point with the way things have been in Rwanda we don't want to do anything to change the adoption so we will just deat with the potential problems if and when they occur. I've never turned down a challenge so bring it!

I'm posting this on this blob because it's private. I'm gonna have to make Inside Kat's Head private too because of the recent adoption changes and the fact that we are no longer going to inform Rwanda when Elliot is born. SO, if you want an email to get a password for that blog just email me at katarrack@gmail.com and I will send it to you. Grazie!

No baby on the due date but good future baby news so I'm one happy huge woman!