Blue Heaven

Well, our day started with a trip to Chapel Hill to watch  the Tarheels sweep the floor with NC State. Not a bad way to start a January Saturday. We arrived home late afternoon, and I followed my usual routine these days:

*Drop bag and keys on kitchen table and immediately proceed to our office to check the *"Tami" folder on my email application

*Quick intake of breath when one new email has been delivered into the "Tami" folder

*Subject: Passport...another quick breath followed by speed reading the email body:

Dear Jack and Joy,

Good morning! I just spoke with Ms. Roy and the passport is in her hands!! So please proceed with buying your tickets and please email me the complete itinerary as soon as you can...

Thank you!

Tami D., MSW
India Program Co-Director/ Waiting Child Coordinator
Dillon International, Inc.

*Yell out to the husband, "We got the passport! -- It's in Anju's hands!"
*Remember to breathe again

So it looks like we'll be booking the trip Monday or Tuesday of this week and we'll post our itinerary at that time. Our plan is to leave the USA in two weekends and arrive home the first weekend in February, with a "Gotcha Day" of January 29th hopefully. We are planning to travel with another Dillon family from right here in NC, which could possibly help the initial transition period for our two India boys. How cool is that? It also looks like our niece will be making the journey with us, and we're super-excited about that as well. Stay tuned for more details.

Oh yeh, I think we might have a new twist on "Blue Heaven" -  If you're a Tarheel fan, you know the term. If you're not a Tarheel fan, why are you reading my blog? Just kidding. Ok, back to the twist. In the Fall of 2003 one of our favorite couples in the world invited us to to attend a Tarheel football game followed by a basketball pre-season game at the Dean Dome, one of our state's most hallowed pieces of real estate. We had no idea at the time that our son, Jayden, would make an early appearance into this world a couple of weeks later. Life as we had known it, well, that life disappeared.

Fast forward to 2008. Two weeks before we hope to make the India trip we're invited to attend a Tarheel game with the same favorite couple. We arrive home from the game to get the above email. That seems evidence enough to me that God is a Tarheel fan for sure. And I have a feeling that life as we now know it, well, it's about to disappear too. Hello, new life! It's about time you showed up.