We've got a group

We received information in the mail today from our agency that put us in our "travel group". Of course, they let us know there are no guarantees that these are the wonderful people who will put their daughters next to ours on the red couch, but they could be. Little announcements or news like this keep us going. We have been hesistant to buy much of any thing for her yet. We talk about names but still informally...Craig and I have very different ideas about names. He thinks future film director name, while I think something feminine, but strong...maybe they will be the same name in the end. I hope so.

DTC!!!

Last Friday we received an email from Jennifer our SW saying that we could be DTC in a few days but that we needed to send scans of our passports via email to Illinois where the main adoption coordination office is located. Needless to say I hopped in the car and buzzed home to get the passports. As I looked I started to panic. The passports weren't where we keep them. They have been in the same cabinet forever. When you panic you can't think clearly. I knew I had to make copies to send to Jennifer but then what did I do with them?! Bang - it hit me. They were in the car locked in the glove compartment. I had left them there after I photocopied them a few weeks ago. So, I had them with me the whole time and the drive back to the office was completely unnecessary. So we got those sent off.
Since then I got the flu and I have been usless to everyone. Here's how I knew I was feeling really miserable. I checked email from my phone while lying in bed yesterday. There was an email from Jennifer saying we were DTC on 1/3/2006. I could only manage a half smile before falling back to sleep. Once I am feeling 100% I will have to begin searching out estimated dates for travel. Let the waiting begin.