And he's off!!!

Brian's flight left tonight at 20:00. It is currently 21:00 so he's been in the air for an hour. I'm assuming they will begin wheeling dinner and/or snacks and drinks around very soon.

For those not in the know, I am a very anxious traveler. I'm just not cut out for planes. I find them intriguing. I enjoy watching planes take off and land. I enjoy airports. I hate flying. Phobically hate flying... So today was very rough on me - even though I'm not the one on the plane. Putting my other half on a plane was just as hard as if it were me onboard.

Brian, however, is very excited to be headed back to Europe and he's excited to be getting a new passport stamp. He will have one up on me. He is also excited to meet up with a fellow adopting dad who will be in region with him. He should be able to do some fantastic sightseeing (the Black Sea!) as well. Hopefully we get fantastic pictures of the area that Laird-Michael calls home and also fabulous pictures of our little lovey.

Brian's flight lands between 05:00-06:00 my time (EST) so by the time I wake up he will be in Europe. He will have a five hour layover in Germany and then he will continue on his way landing in the beautiful city of S______ around mid-day my time tomorrow.

I have prayed. We prayed through text before take-off.  Sterling and I prayed at bedtime. When I wake up my husband will be delivered safely to Germany. And then, on Monday I will have new pictures of our littlest son. How exciting!!

Also today, I began to get the stage 2 part of our dossier started. I mailed off our i800 and i864w forms. I got my fingerprint cards done (we already have one for Brian - everyone is saying we need two but I am going to call courier services and see if any of them will accept one since he isn't here,) and I got the ball rolling on our medical forms. That is everything for dossier stage 2. Of course, it all needs to be apostilled and then sent over to Europe. Hopefully these things get turned around quickly so we have some sort of movement before the Holiday shutdowns on both continents. I would be ECSTATIC if our little one was home before Easter.

I promise to try to be diligent with the blog while Brian is away to keep everyone up to date. He has promised to send pictures and daily synopses and information for me to write blog material with. I know that a lot of you are just as excited as we are!

We hope you will join us on this 10 day trip!

*Please forgive typos and grammar errors. I am beyond ready for sleep!*