Withdrawals

Brandy and I are going through withdrawals this week for a couple of reasons.  First, we don't have any more paperwork to do right now.  We have been filling out forms and writing letters for this adoption non-stop since November of last year, and some even before then.  We finally finished our dossier last week, and knocked off a couple of "To-Do Lists" for our agency.  Now, there is nothing to do but wait, and it feels really weird.  We complained about how much paperwork we had to do before, and now we almost miss it.  It's like those dreams you have after graduation that you had homework that you forgot to do.  It's just been such a big part of our life.

Our second withdrawal this week has been from caffeine.  To try to stay healthy, we both gave ourselves a week-long challenge to drink nothing but water or milk.  Monday was ROUGH.  By the time I got home, I didn't feel like doing anything.  Brandy managed to prepare a delicious dinner.  I had hope that food would give me a burst of energy, but the only energy we got was from laughing at two episodes of America's Funniest Videos.  It NEVER fails, the video with the cute kid ALWAYS wins.  It's America's Funniest, not America's Cutest, people!  We were both in bed at 9 o'clock!

I checked with the courier who took our dossier to the Chinese Consulate in Houston.  She said it looked like everything was in order with our dossier, so that was a relief.  She said it would be ready Friday, and I assume that means we will get it back next week.  When we get it back, we will send it to our agency.  Then, they will translate it and send it to China.  Once China receives it, we will have our Log In Date (LID), which is a big deal in the adoption process.

I just want to express some gratitude.  To our readers, you may feel sick of reading our "thank you's", but I just don't think we can say it enough.  We got some big help over the last few weeks.  I'd love to stand on a rooftop and scream your names and praises.  We just want everyone to know that we REALLY appreciate all the emotional and financial support we have received in the last couple of weeks and throughout the whole process.  We still have shirts available.  If anyone wants a Paul Companies shirt, message us on our FB page https://www.facebook.com/pauladoption?ref_type=bookmark .