One Month Down...Make it Stop Already!

Today marks one full, long month since we arrived. We thought we were about a week early according to information at the time. We thought we could get adjusted to CA life, visit some friends and family, and then head to T's town and walk on into Labor and Delivery and document the start of our daughter's beautiful life. Oh the promise of those not-yet-in-the-final-week-of-pregnancy days. It's blissfully hopeful.

We've made the most of our time out here. We've managed to visit with a few people and we've spent some much needed time alone processing a dream that was changing on a daily basis. We've done our very best and we continue to do just that. Still, we're ready for this little (turning into big) chapter to close.

We had a long conversation with T today. We talked about the minimized correspondence we've had of late and had some touching moments while we considered what is to come for both of us in a week or so. Most of our talk was spent laughing at a multitude of things. I just focus on keeping her laughing because 1) she's got a great laugh and 2) it's better for all of us if she's as happy as she can be right now.

She still has her appointments tomorrow to get the birth father's paperwork signed with the notary and the counseling meeting she is required to have with the CA agency. She's struggling with all of these logistics so late in the game and she reminds herself that these steps are a means to an outcome that she wants. It doesn't make it any easier to waddle her 9 month pregnant self around town to get it all done. So......

You can band together in one big, positive energy force that will help us get over a hump tomorrow, this week's "hump day". We need everyone focused on getting T to her meetings. It will mean we get to come home sooner after the baby is born! Oh, and on that note...something has got to happen in the next five days, right?