Much Needed Break...

This is a difficult post to write. Everything seemed to just pile and pile on this week. We were excited to have some time off of work for Jeff and school for Alli. I wanted to get things ready for Mo's homecoming. I want the house to be all decorated for Christmas and all shopping finished just to hunker down and enjoy him the month of December. We thought based on a few happenings that Mario was coming home REALLY soon. The National Visa Center had told our congressman that the Visa cable was sent and all was "good to go." We found this out a day ago, but still had no real travel plan. Soon, was what we were told.

We did Thanksgiving at my mom's, and I was relaxed. Relaxed for the first time in months knowing that the last part was finished, so all he had to do was board the plane. We got home and got an email from our agency that the Visa was not there when they went to pick it up. We have no way of talking to anyone at the embassy today as it is a National holiday. We will have to wait until Monday. I did speak to the congressman's office who told me he was so sorry and that there was nothing he could do until Monday. Even then, I am not sure what he will be able to do.

It is just so frustrating to think that you have nothing to worry about, and still have something to worry about. This is why we do not really share our good news with this adoption until after it happens. It is so hard to explain it to everyone. I am just incredibly sad, incredibly let down.

In previous months, I would read others blogs who would write that they were taking a "blogging" break, secretly thinking that I would never need to do that. The time has come. I need to take a break from the hours a week I spend reading all of the horrible news sites about Guatemala. It is consuming me and my enjoyment with the family I have here. I want to be normal again, but as all of us know, normal went out the window the second we accepted the referral. I will post pics of the room soon, but I am going to step away from other posts for as long as I need to. Maybe a day or 2, maybe a month. I hope that the next time I blog, he will be home in the crib behind me - and all of this will be behind me, too.

We love you all, near and far, cyber and non-cyber friends and family. Thank you for supporting us through this. I know that you will understand.