Feeling positive

Today was a great day. We went to our local Vietnamese community Tet celebration. It was busy busy! At first we weren't sure what was going on as we got herded into an auditorium by the crowds. There was a band on stage made up of young guys singing a rock song in Vietnamese. We were wondering if this was it as we had hoped there would be food amongst other things. The song ended and everybody got up and started leaving. We were once again swept up with the crowd down a tiny hall (this building is a maze) until we popped out into a big room filled with food, yummy food. Randomly, amongst all the Vietnamese food was a little stall with Sri Lankan food...interesting...yummy but interesting. After finally breaking free of the crowd we scanned the room and saw some familiar faces from our adoptive community. So, much chatting with the adults and squeezing of cute baby cheeks ensued. The we saw the director of our agency and other agency people and made our way over for a round of hugs and smiles. It was then that our director said that she has been hearing some things that has made her believe that we'll be getting the call soon. Her feelings were even more positive than last Monday. So now we are hovering on the line between cautiously optimistic and "to hell with the cautious part" full on optimistic. The most optimistic we've been yet. We could be on our way to our little guy within the next couple of weeks!!

Then it hit us...holy crap we have a lot to do. So we left Tet festival and went to Ikea to pick up some outstanding items for his room, such as shelving and storage containers. Pat still has to refinish the floor of the room and then we have to reassemble the crib. We have to go through his suitcase to see if we need anything else. It's so much fun doing this last minute rush of planning :) I thought the time would never come.

I will keep everybody posted :)