monday

not just any other monday.  no sireee....in two days we will wake, packed and ready to go to TO for the starting point of THE final leg of the journey.  the journey to Zake, aka Alemayehu, but most recently known as AJ.  however, whether we get in a car and hit the highway hinges on one phone call.  one defining call.   either the agency will call us bright and early with the delightful news that our visa WAS IN THE POUCH (you know, the mysterious pouch that i want to hunt down and tear open with my own crazed hands....yeah, that one...ahem...) or we will break down and call the agency to learn that the visa missed the delivery, or who knows what....so, as we approach d-day i feel like i'm starting to brace myself for the possibility that the trip will be delayed, possibly until after Christmas even.  hoping it isn't but wondering if it will be...
in the meantime, i know time will pass quickly because the weekend is full.  two Christmas parties for the kids tomorrow, play date with Hudson's Haitian friend, cleaning bed linens x6 (because i'm type A and must do that before any extended time away.  thanks for that mom. :)  the Dutch in me may even make me wash the floors.  call it nesting, like pre-delivery with a pregnancy because in many ways it feels the same.  plus, five kids need their bags packed and then there is an errand or two in there as well.  also, church on Sunday~ always good.  so...i'll be back really soon with the visa verdict.  or VV for short.