Finally the long awaited phone call arrived. My phone rang on Tuesday morning as I was walking into work. Since we knew Charli had her visa interview Tuesday afternoon (Korea time) this was not totally unexpected. It was still a great feeling after 18 months of waiting to know that we could finally go meet our daughter.
We gambled a little bit last Friday and booked our flights and hotel counting on our call coming sometime during this week. We leave next Tuesday the 22nd and come home on Tuesday the 29th. We already have our first appointment to meet Yeong Eun scheduled for Thursday the 24th at 10:00 a.m. WOW - this is really happening. We are going to be parents to 4 kids. That is SCARY STUFF.
When we went to get Ellie we left 48 hours after receiving her travel call. We must have been on speed at that stage of our lives or the third child and aging three years has slowed us down significantly as there is NO WAY we could have left on a plane this morning. We have TONS of shopping and packing and general getting ready to do. In some ways getting the three kids ready to be left behind is more difficult than packing for ourselves.
The one thing I regret about our travel arrangements is that we will be away on Abby's 9th birthday. I've never been away from her on her birthday and it feels strange. She was so grown up about the whole thing and said "she didn't mind because we were bringing her the best present, a new sister." What a special girl....we must be doing something right.
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