Lately...

I’m back from my month long blog hiatus. It was not intentional, you see. I am just keeping myself quite occupied preparing for the cutest little fella to come home! His room has been painted- furniture put together, room décor still in process but we are having so much fun getting ready for Miles.

Travel
I’ve contacted a couple people who can assist in booking adoption travel. This whole two trip thing- not knowing if you’re actually going until a week and a half before hand thing- is a bit overrated. I can look at flights but don’t want to book of course until we know we’re going those dates for sure. Or is it cheaper to book now with a nominal change fee? Will prices be much much higher if we’re booking 10 days before we are traveling? Should we book directly with the airline? Where will we stay? I wish I had those answers… I’m working on getting them! (Feel free to enlighten me in the comments section with any advice!)

Emotions
I’ve had a couple of days of crying tears of joy at the drop of a hat. I don’t know when it’s coming- but I will all of the sudden just feel so overwhelmed with the blessing of this sweet boy and the journey we’ve been on that lead us to him. It’s just been such a process- so many times each step just feeling like we’ve checked something off of the list- that when I think that in less than 2 months I will have him in my arms- I absolutely cannot deal with that much joy without erupting!

Life as of lately
I have been back to work for a couple of weeks now. It's pretty easy to go back when you love what you do but I won't lie- knowing that in a couple of months we will be headed to Africa makes it easier as well! Ross and I have been working on Miles' room like I mentioned- and we've started to pick up a few things for him here and there. Target had tons of cute clothes on clearance so we brought a few things home. I love seeing cute clothes and picturing him here running around in them. And pajamas are the stinking cutest of all! We spent a weekend celebrating my brother and new sister in law as they said "I do" a couple of weeks ago. It was so great having our family in town for the fun. And I spent a glorious weekend away with a few of my favorite girls- and what I mean by glorious is that we spent most of the weekend in our pajamas in the hotel room catching up and watching movies. It was lovely.


The countdown is on... 50 days until we should be headed to Ethiopia!