Excuse Me???

What was that???  TWO WEEKS???

This week is insane.  There is not a single day that I won't be running from NY to Philly to Pottstown, rinse, dry, repeat.  This is my last week of summer editing.  After this I go back to being a professor and a mom full-time (until they get so busy again they start sending the hard-drives to my home).

This is what my home office should look like...

This is what my home office actually looks like... But alas it is at home, so I need to shut up and stop complaining.  It allows me to do laundry and vacuum while I render... you can't beat that.

Today we booked our train tickets from Beijing to Guangzhou.  It is a 22 hour overnight train that will leave Beijing at 1:08 pm and arrive in GZ at 10:30 am the next morning.  I am actually really excited.  I have never taken an overnight train before, but have dreamt of hitting the trans-siberian railway, so I figure this is a baby step in that direction.  I figure I would rather be stuck in a moving object, then stuck in an airport waiting for a flight that is 10 hours delayed (this is totally normal and acceptable in China)!

Our agency has confirmed with me 5 times since Friday that I understand that train tickets can NOT be exchanged or reimbursed, so are we sure we really want to do this?  At this point I am doing it just to prove a point.

Also last week we sent a care package with some fresh fruit and a big cake to Jack, only to find out that he has NOT been moved back to the orphanage we want him in.  They had said he would be moved in a few days... well it's been a week.  I am hoping they will move him in the "next few days" or at least by the time we get there.

So there you have it.  We are getting on a plane in 13 days, I am tired, stubborn, stressed, and overwhelmed, but hey that is pretty par for the course when it comes to adoption.  Please come join us, it's a riot!