We are Back!

Over the past week, as we were preparing our home with the last minute details and cleaning I kept thinking as I was doing things, "this is the last load of laundry I will do without Landon standing here at the gate wanting to come in and unload the dryer!" ..."this is the last night in our house without Landon" , and the list goes on. I think it finally hit me on Friday as I was saying goodbye to my students that this is all happening...FOR REAL!  

We got to JFK on Saturday after a nice ride up with both of our parents...listening to Christmas music almost the whole way. Two special Christmas songs this year are "I'll Be Home For Christmas"and "All I Want for Christmas Is You"  After a yummy lunch at Chili's in the airport, we arrived back at our gate for seat assignments and check in. We found out at that moment that due to the type of zone we had assigned to our tickets, our seat assignments could not be made earlier. We were literally the last ones in the gate area, the rest of our plane had boarded. The counter ladies kept announcing a $600 Delta voucher and guaranteed Sunday 4:25 PM First class tickets for 4 volunteers who would be willing to fly out sunday... We did not want to do this because that would put us here on Monday, when we may be picking up Landon. Long  story short, we shared why we needed to get to Moscow on that flight, and the lady seemed to work that much harder at getting us on the plane. We don't know how she did it, but she gave us our seats! We were so happy to be getting on. She had told us that if no one volunteered then we would have been forced to leave tomorrow (which is now today...) and they would give us the voucher, hotel arrangements, and first class....But, suddenly, she got us seats! Thank you to our parents who were the only ones that knew what was going on, and went into prayer mode! :)

After we got on the plane, we were just about to back out when everything shut down in our plane, and the captain came on and announded "flight attendants, please prepare for arrival" - arrival? what? Yes, this was the beginning of 3 hours of sitting there on the plane...not going anywhere. A pipe in the underbelly of the plane was leaking and needed to be replaced. We then took off at 8 PM not 4:25, as scheduled. We got here a little later than expected, a little more tired (is that possible?) but we did get here...safe!

Our drive to the hotel wasn't too bad, in regards to traffic, but for some reason I was really not feeling well- headache, and my typical motion sickness. blah... Right before we pulled into our hotel, our driver said, "Anna phone you" then "baby (while he hugged himself) tomorrow" - he said this in the form of a statement, like he had heard this...we are praying he is right! We are still awaiting a call from Anna to confirm this.

It's only 5:30 here, but it feels like midnight to us. We are trying to stay up for a while,  so we don't wake up in the middle of the night unable to sleep anymore...like last time. We want to make sure we are well rested to take our boy with us tomorrow (Lord willing!)

Tonight may be his last night in the orphanage. Happy tears, and tears of "wow...it's happening!" are coming.

I may be updating later tonight if we get a call about the week's plan. 

PS- I'm working on changing the blog song! NO MORE WAITING!!!   :0)