Getting Ready

Well, we've all gotten our shots to go to China, and the boys were so brave! Typhoid shots hurt! But they were willing to do it for Lilli Grace, just so they could be there to see her from the first moment. They are so anxious to get there; I'm starting to feel anxious to get home. I just want my girl!

We got the boys' passports in the mail, so now I can finish their visa applications and mark something else off my expanding list. We have four weeks exactly  before we leave, if our travel dates hold out.

We've decided to use Lilli's room as the staging point for our packing, which will begin this weekend, I hope. I've been busy reading other people's lists and trying to decide what we need to take.

We're still waiting for our official travel approval, so we won't know much about flight information until probably a couple weeks from now. But there's plenty to do! See my to do list for today, for instance:

1. Freak out! We'll be in China one month from today!!

2. Calm down. We have to focus.

3. Slight rise in heart rate with thoughts of organizing the packing. Head gets a little swimmy.

4. Deep breaths, one thing at a time. Start making lists.

5. AHHH!! She's finally coming home!!!

6. Sit quietly with a deer in the headlights look.

Repeat steps one through six at various points throughout the day.

All that being said, this really is the fun part. We actually shopped for clothes for Lilli Grace and registered for gifts for our shower at church on July 12. I can just imagine her in each outfit. The boys had a good time picking out outfits; Eli was walking around holding up tops to match with the cute little skirt he had picked out. They can believe she's real now, too. :) I look at her picture and try to see the smallest details about her. My little girl. I'm so ready.

And now, I think it's time to go over my list again:

1. Freak out!! We'll be in China one month from today . . .