Our "Letter of Seeking Confirmation from Adopter" was on my desk a whole five minutes today as David and I checked the "We accept" box (of course!), signed it, and put it into a FedEx priority overnight envelope to Heritage. It will arrive at Heritage tomorrow (she says, remembering the DHL snafu), and hopefully China will get it soon! We accept! We accept! We're keeping our fingers crossed for TA before Chinese New Year - it will be close.

I spent this morning in day surgery with my 3-year-old, Genevieve; she was having some oral surgery done. It's so hard to have little ones go under anesthesia (mommy worry), but the nurses pampered her, and the doctor allowed me back to the O.R. along with Gennie's favorite stuffed dinosaur. I was very stylish in what they called a "bunny suit" to cover my clothes, and my blue hair net. She awakened groggy but happy, and was soon presented with cartoons (on a channel we don't get at home - ooh, fancy), and a blue popsicle. We knew she was fine when she refused to wear the finger monitor and wanted her IV out NOW. :) She came home and ate three cartons of peach yogurt, after only a few spoonfuls of chicken soup. We may see this yogurt coming back up before the night is over, but hopefully not! At least she's eating and essentially back to herself.

Gennie's resting this afternoon, and I'm busy travel planning (more dreaming at this point, since I can't make reservations yet, but at least we'll have the list ready), counting calendar days, and checking FedEx tracking even though I know for a fact that pickup won't happen until later today. Guess how much lecture planning I've gotten done today? Ha ha... less than that. Thank goodness I can punt when it comes to undergraduate lectures on the brain. Maybe I can be my own visual aid: this is what happens to your brain when you're trying to complete an adoption. I know, it ain't pretty!