Missing My Babies

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We’ve been here a little over a week now and this is the longest I have ever been away from my children. Skype just doesn’t cut it. Jade kissed the screen yesterday and told us he wants to hug us. Cue the tears.I can’t write about them. I want to tell you how they are but I can’t because I choke up when I think about them too much.How to get around the ache? This is a city of distractions. We have Continue Reading

Beautiful Girls

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For months there was just a picture, or two. A split second frozen digitally... that is all we knew of two little girls who waited across the world for us to come for them. I wondered what would they feel like, what would they smell like, what would their voices sound like, their coos, their cries... Today I found out. We went to Peach’s house first. When they brought her into the room and I saw Continue Reading

The Eagle Has Landed

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We began our journey grounded in our home city airport because all air traffic into JFK was halted. This meant that before we even took off, we knew our connection to Amsterdam was blown. The very nice lady at the Delta counter told me that she was putting us on the 9:45 p.m. flight from JFK to Paris on Air France. Ok, that is my favorite airline and flight across the Atlantic ocean. They feed you Continue Reading

Busy Bee

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Remember that list of todos that was in my head? Well, most of it is done! It has been a crazy couple of days...The money snafu... take note, it takes 3-5 business days to move cash money from anywhere to anywhere, unless of course you can wire it, which RR can’t. Western Union, Paypal, you name it... 3 to 5 days. So for a little while it was a bit of a panic trying to figure out how to get my Continue Reading

OMG, PTL

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We have a travel date. I have been checking everyday, three or four times a day until it gets too late over there to be writing emails... and nothing. It is like that last two weeks of pregnancy when you just can’t wait. Your skin itches, you can’t sleep, you are constantly thinking about the baby (or in this case babies).I am not good at indefinite waiting... it makes me a slacker. I need a Continue Reading