Wednesday, July 27, 2011

It's My Party & I'll Cry If I Want To....

or I'll do cartwheels of joy!

It's my birthday today.
But I kinda got my present yesterday when my phone rang at 9:30am.

Which is a good thing because so far today.....
I have awoken at 1:37am with a beeping security alarm that apparently wanted new batteries....
of which I  had none...
and also no way of disconnecting it....
at least in my sleepy stupor I had no way.....
normal awake people probably would have found a way.

Then after falling back to sleep round a bout near an hour later I woke up at 6:40am to feed
one happy
and one grumpy
small Chinese man breakfast.
Then I took them to summer school,
stopped at the chow hall to procure more food rations for the rest of the testosterone I live with
decided to splurge the extra 75cents for a cuppa {hot} coffee to feed my caffeine addiction
walked to the car
and whilst balancing said food rations
managed to spill said coffee all over my....brea......errrrr.....front side.
One word.
Ouch.

But thankfully I am still  basking in my phone call gift of yesterday.
It was our agency.
Our
off the hook
fantastic agency.

They had recieved an email the night before in regards to our sweet boy,

"CCCWA has start The Most Rapid Process for Hu XX XX to issue LSC...."

Did you hear that?
"The Most Rapid Process"
And in case you were wondering
it was capitalized like that on their end.
I heart capitalized letters.
IT MAKES IT SOUND
EXCITING
AND
REAL
AND
IMPORTANT.

I asked her if "The Most Rapid Process" was normal lingo for "expedited" and she said she hadn't heard it phrased that way before.

I don't know much
but I think John better start gearing up for some airline food because after this LSC, the rest should go
very
very
quickly.

I'm off to apply some burn ointment to my.....well.....never mind.

20 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday!

    And I will join you in those cartwheels of joy!!!

    woo-hoo!

    That little boy of your will be home soon!!! :)

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  2. How exciting!!! What a great birthday present indeed! Praying for this Most Rapid Process!

    Hugs,
    Robin

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  3. hi sonia,
    i can't remember how i stumbled across your blog a few weeks ago but i am gald i did! i have loved reading about your sons! we are going to china for a second time, this time for a son. seeing your boys come home has really made me feel more open to an older boy. on that note, i would love to know if you have any thoughts on that (hardest parts/best parts). if you would be up for emailing me, i'd love to hear your thoughts! pfinn77 at hotmaildotcom

    so, so happy to hear about the rushed LOA!!!!
    erika

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  4. Happy Birthday! What an awesome gift you received yesterday. I've never heard that either. Awesome! Praying for all of you! And jumping up & down for joy with you. :-)

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  5. All choked up! Praise Jesus! Praying your boy HOME!!!

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  6. oh! and happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  7. Awesome news and a great birthday present! Happy Birthday!

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  8. PRAISE THE LORD!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
    Joy

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  9. Happy Birthday and Congrats on the awesome news yesterday. Take care of your....

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  10. Hey that means you will only be a couple weeks behind us. That is very, very good!

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  11. Congratulations!! This is wonderful wonderful news...
    Happy Birthday and take care of your.. ummm... owie! :)
    Krista D

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  12. What a sweet b'day present, the call not the burn! Happy Birthday!

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  13. What a wonderful birthday gift...minus the spilled coffee!! :-)

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  14. So glad you got the best birthday gift ever! :) We got a referral!! Woot, woot! :) Can't wait to put it on the blog...but will have to wait...darn rules! ;)

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  15. Happy Birthday to YOU! So happy for your happy news!...but could you wait up??? I'm trying to plan the trip of a life-time to China for YOUR man and MY man and you're getting ahead of me!!! We were actually logged in a week or two ahead of you, but my dossier had to be translated! I suppose yours has already been there, done that... hasn't it? :-) OK... I'll continue to be happy for you anyway!

    hugs from the other side of Florida- Lori

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  16. I love the adoption blog world. So, yesterday I shared your birthday and grew another year older. I did not get the exciting phone call you did on the 26th, but did mail our I797 to the SOS and am hoping to be logged in soon. We have two babies waiting in China! I love your blog, can't wait to follow your journey. WWW.lifeatbiggerdirt.blogspot.com

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  17. Just an FYI . . ours wasn't even worded that way . . and can I tell you how over the moon happy that makes me?? You need to bring that sweet boy home now! I have been praying and praying and will continue to do so! Happy Birthday!!

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  18. Wa Hoo! So happy for you and the little man. Happy Birthday, Sonia!

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