You are cordially invited...

Finallly! Today we received our TA's from China saying we can come pick up Hope. We will be leaving on the 8th, but as of tonight, we are unsure of when we'll return -either July 23,24 or 25th. We are just waiting for the appointment from the Counsulate as to when that will be. It's just so surreal that two weekends from now we will be in Hong Kong, two weeks from Monday (July 14th) we will have our baby! To say we are excited, scared, nervous and just plain overwhelmed is an understatment. It's one of those situations that you have a million things to get done, but suddenly organizing your shoes in your closet becomes an easier task to conquer. I walk around at work with a grin on my face and inside my head I just keep hearing "I'm going to China in 10 days" and wonder if anyone can figure out my secret. I guess I gave everyone a clue yesterday that I'm really starting to lose it when at about 11:00am I looked down and realized for the first time that day that I had two completely different shoes on! One was blue, one was black. Who does that!??
We are going to paint the nursery this weekend with the help of some friends, and put the crib up, pack, make lists, and more lists. Tick tock, tick tock our time has come.