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Monday, May 7, 2012

So, Here's My Past Week:


To begin with, you've been listening to me whine for the last couple of posts so you already know that I am in the "Just GET IT OUT!" stage.

I've sent paperwork and made a payment to, well basically, immigration. It's the next paperwork step in getting all our stuff done so that we can go get Lyric. (I loved the title of this one- "Request to Declare an Immediate Relative as a Citizen of the United States"- happy happy !)  Nothing more happens until I have this piece of paper from immigration.  I paid extra for the paperwork and the check to get to Texas in two days -seriously, I'm trying to keep this thing moving.  It was supposed to arrive by end of business on Tuesday, April 24.  It is May 3 and it's still not there.  I accessed the tracking number and it ends in Mesquite, Texas. Just stops.  The UPS lady said, "They NEVER lose packages."  Well, they did. They lost it. They've put a tracer on my package-it'll take 7 to 10 business days for them to locate my package (or give up and declare it lost.) Immigration doesn't want me to stop payment on my check and send them another payment because "it just makes things really hard."  (This is a government agency, we have to take baby steps with them. Seriously, teeny tiny, itty bitty, baby steps. Ugh!) In the meantime, the adoption just waits.   Just sits there like an old piece of meat and rots.  (Dramatic, ain't I?)

I've begun to feel like a money hose has been attached to my body, "That'll be x number MORE dollars..." THEY have me over a barrel, they know it and I know it. What am I gonna do, not go through with the adoption? So, they just request money and I just siphon it off to them. (You think they'll take a kidney, instead, at some point? I have an extra.) I feel so trapped. And we haven't even begun to pay for in-country expenses and 5 round-trip (+ 1 one -way) international plane tickets, yet.

Also, I've been informed that, as of March 1, China has decided that adoption agencies can no longer request updates on children straight from the kid's orphanage. They have to, instead, go through one particular organization.  (You don't have to be Vincent van Gogh to know that this idea was not the prettiest crayon in the box.) Can we all scream "BACKLOG!"at the top of our voices?  It's already been over a month, our agency is fairly certain that we will get an update, they just have no idea when. It will most definitively be the last one that we get before we travel. I bet we're not the only parents who get back to the hotel room and secretly compare the baby pictures in their possession to the toddler that they've been given.   Tacky, I know, but honest.

Grace and Hope, who I'd hoped would have a nifty new picture of Lyric, hasn't posted one even of her hometown, yet. I'm beginning to think that they may be "done." So, no new pictures there, either.

I am writing this in between going down to the barn to check on my horse. He's colicky which just basically means, for all you non-horse people out there, that his stomach really hurts. Sounds sorta mild until I tell you that this can become fatal and he's not getting well as fast as expected or hoped.  I'm going to the barn every four hours to see if he needs more pain meds, (the pain meds -the vet gave me a crash course on how to give a shot to a horse who is in major pain- are to keep him from laying down on the ground and rolling around. If he does this, he could "twist a gut," which means that he could end up with part of his intestine twisted, at which point it is either go ahead and put him, literally, out of his misery -yes, that means what you think it means- or opt for a VERY expensive surgery to TRY to fix the problem. Not a choice that I want to have to make.) The vet said, basically, that if he's not significantly better by in the morning, "it's bad."  It's after 1am my time and no, he's not better yet.

It's been a sorta crappy week.

Then, this came in the mail:


Yep, from Princess T.
It's now hanging on the wall in Lyric's room.


Sometimes, you just need a reminder of how it's all come together in the past to make the present a not so frustrating place.  The timing feels so slow and out of sync but we are exactly where we are supposed to be, exactly when we are supposed to be there. (I'm gonna keep telling myself this over and over! :)  )

Amen and hallelujah!

(PS Horse is MUCH better. In the words of one of the trainers [she stayed with me until after the vet left, which she didn't have to do and was very kind] at the barn, "I've never seen a case of colic go so long and turn out well. I was surprised to see him, at all, this morning."

Also, it's May 7 and still nada on the check to immigration.  <sigh>
<mutters to self, "...exactly where we are supposed to be...">)

1 comment:

  1. Totally crying! I just feel your agony in this wait, it is so stinkin hard. And too long. But it will end with Lyric in your arms, and you'll get to look at her as you hold her and all the waiting will be done and she will be home where she belongs.

    Can you do me a favor? I had meant to write a scripture in Ting's hand on the heart and I totally forgot- it's been on my heart for you since I sent it- Romans 8:28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." (Maybe just the verse reference will fit:) Big hugs~ Jess

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