Travel Arrangements

We couldn't be more excited to have received our TA phone call on Friday May 2nd, 2008! All the worrying and waiting about when our Travel Approval might come, if it would ever come, if it wouldn't come for months and months etc. can now be converted into finishing up the boys room for George's arrival in IL the first week in June. And also for packing for our plane trip to Huangzhou, China on May 22nd, 2008. I am not sure how that will go since I have never been very good at traveling with a suitcase that didn't exceed most airline weight limits, and since this is an International flight around the time of the upcoming Summer Olympics, I am going to have to comply if it kills me or risk traveling all the way to China without my suitcase if it gets confiscated.

Po Po Joan has offered to come and stay with the kids while Jim and I travel. And Gong Gong Gary has graciously agreed to suffer at home for two weeks without his Sweetheart for the sake of the Grandkids. What once was an anxious time for us of worrying about what to do with the kids if we both left to bring George home in the most supportive manner for him, is quickly fading as the Ultimate Babysitter/Mary Poppins extraordinaire is coming to IL to save the day. If there was a Super Hero based on a Woman that is desperately loved by a family of 4 and soon to be 5 children that really need someone in their lives that treats them so consistently with enthusiasm and kindness, that Super Hero Gramma would look and act exactly like Joan! The kids can't stop raving about how much fun they are going to have with her and we can already tell there will be little to no worry about their being home without us. Jim and I couldn't be more greatful or thrilled that they won't miss us a bit.