Everything is Expiring

It is that time and...all of my adoption related stuff is expiring. It seems the past week has been filled with (unreturned) messages to USCIS for fingerprinting (did finally get someone), filling out SLED and sexual offender registry checks, updating references, updating the home study and just generally feeling stressed with a too long to do list. Almost have it done and going to get it sent off tomorrow by golly, just need a few things notarized.

In fun news I have been outfitting Grayson's bedroom. I realize I have a crazy amount of time before he is here but it is one less thing to worry about and has been fun. Here is a pic of the room so far and the crazy tall tent!

The stickers placed randomly on the wall are my daughter's doing, but so far I am loving the room!

Finding the wait hard!

Well I just found out that the care package that I sent to Korea May 21st was delivered yesterday! Can't believe it took so long and I guess the main lesson I learned was don't mail USPS from the UPS store, according to the tracking it took them NINE days for them to drop off my package at the USPS store (usually I love UPS but I did go to a different branch than usual). I am very happy to find that it arrived but I am thinking of holding off a bit on the birthday care package since this one just got there. Another thing I learned was that while my super cheap (well over $100 but less than the $300 UPS wanted) shipping would not let me track by the USPS receipt number I could track through the customs ID on the customs declaration form. I found this out after putting in basically every weird number/letter combination on the USPS receipt and custom receipt I could find.

I wonder when the foster mother will come to the SWS office and pick it up.
I wonder when we will be submitted for our Emigration Permit.
I wonder what day in July all the July birthdays at SWS celebrate their birthdays out at a restaurant together.

There is just so much I don't know and it is getting frustrating. I know we have a long time to go and I need to just relax but I am finding it hard.

Feeling very ugh today and feeling bad for it as I know how lucky I am and how much I have to be thankful for it. Hopefully I will wake up feeling positive tomorrow.

Books!

This past weekend I went a little Amazon crazy with adoption related books and today they arrived! 

I bought three books for Grayson (two recordable ones to send to Korea and one that I will keep here for him). I also bought myself two books. The first is Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child and the second is Toddler Adoption by Mary Hopkins-Best. I am going to try to read both this week.

I am really glad these arrived today because I just signed up with various learn Korean websites and I am sort of dreading it so now I have a reason to procrastinate. Yay!

I hope I made good book choices, I went mainly off of Amazon reviews.