Squeaky Wheels and Postal Workers

Well, we've got a date. Well we think we have a date. Well, we're going to Russia on September 25 whether we have a date or not. For the last week and a half, we have spoken to our agency on a daily basis. Each day they have said that we will know our court date the next day. Each day we have not known our court date. On Monday afternoon, I cut off my contact with them because I feared I could not remain civil with them. I put Vonda in charge of all communication. By Thursday, I could no longer remain on the sidelines. I spoke with our case manager as well as her supervisor. After they said we should know something on Friday for sure, I asked them to please not tell us that unless they really knew something. (I'm pretty sure they don't really like me anymore.) Well today, I called our contact and of course they had not heard anything. She said she would call me back after talking to the Moscow director. I had heard that line before and assumed I'd have to call her back later to hear that we still knew nothing. Well, for a change, she actually called me back. And she had Ludmilla, the Moscow director conferenced in. Ludmilla speaks very little English, so they also had a translator on line. I finally got an answer as to when Jack's paperwork was actually filed with the court. As I had feared, it wasn't filed until September 6 because the entire country of Russia takes a 1 month vacation during the month of August. But..., Ludmilla stated that she wanted us to go on and buy our tickets and come on Saturday, Sept 25. We do not technically have a court date, but she is 99.9% sure that we will get a court date during the week. We are going to trust that she had the connections to pull this off. I told her even if we didn't get to court until the next week, we would still love to come because we have got to see Jack again. (I think it was at this point that I almost cried). The moral of the story is that the squeaky wheel does indeed get the grease. I also think they could tell that they were closer and closer to pushing me over the postal edge and decided to actually do something about it. This next week we'll be busy packing (OK, Vonda will be busy, I'll traveling with work). Allie is very excited and looking forward to blogging from Russia for her class and friends at Ezell-Harding. We cannot wait to see him again. This had been the hardest 8 weeks in our lives. We've finally been able to watch Jack's video tonite. We haven't been able to watch for the last few weeks because we've missed him so much. Right now, our plans are to leave on Saturday the 25th and return on Saturday, October 2nd at 11:00 PM. We cannot wait for everyone to meet him. He's got so many family and friends that are loving and praying for him. You're going to love him.....