We finally received the good news we have waited 135 days for...that's over 19 weeks, but who's counting?? WE ARE OUT OF PGN!!
I want to shout it from the mountain tops, sing it from the sea's and all of those other corny adages that you have heard. Well...too bad...that's what I want to do!! I can't get this smile off my face! Flora will be coming home soon...hopefully in 4 to 6 weeks!
I am on Cloud 9....Go ahead...try to knock me off my cloud...I dare you!! It can't be done!!
Here's the rundown on how it happened. I was depressed as I have been for the past, oh let's say, 135 days!! I woke up this morning as I have for the past 135 days thinking, today is going to be the day!! Then I usually think...yeah right that's what you have thought for the past 134 days and it hasn't happened, what is going to make today any different. So, I'm at the office in my usual monster mood, as I have been for the past 135 days, or did I say that already?
Anyway, I'm at the office, doing the things I do and it's time for lunch. I go to the Post Office on my way home, usually the highlight of my day, may I add, and then I go home to grab a bite to eat. I get home, log on to the computer, check my email, like I have for the past 135 days and there's nothing there but work stuff...not like I expected much, I only left work 30 minutes ago and there wasn't anything when I left. I have my usual bowl of Frosted Flakes, surf the Internet, relax a bit, check my email one more time and then go back to the office.
On my way back to the office today though a thought entered my head, it was almost 2:30pm, as I took my late lunch and I thought, you know if I am going to hear something it probably won't be until around 2:30 anyway as Guatemala is an hour behind and for them to go PGN and get back it would probably be around 2:30pm. Not thinking much more than that, I turn the corner by the gas station and passed my husband, who lovingly honked at me and waved. I waved and turned another corner and back to work I was.
I sat down at my desk, clicked on Internet explorer, clicked on web mail, and there it was...an email...the subject was "Congrats" and it was from our attorney. I don't think I even processed what the subject line was or the fact that it was from our attorney, I just clicked on it as fast as I could. I read the line, "Congratulations!!!!!!!! We are out of PGN!!!!! and I freaked out!! I don't think that I waited 1 second when my hand picked up the phone to call my husband, I couldn't really even speak at that second. I said, 'We're out of PGN!" He said, "What??" Confirming that I couldn't speak in coherent sentences at that point, I said again, in a much more clear tone, "WE ARE OUT OF PGN"!! I heard a gasp and then a "Oh, Thank God"! He asked me if I was crying and I said, "not yet, but as soon as I hang up this phone I am going to sit down and sob"!...and that's exactly what I did.
I could tell I was sobbing rather loudly and I heard my sister Amber get out of her chair in her office, I got out of mine and met her in the hall with a sobbing, "We are Out of PGN", she took me in her arms and I sobbed some more. I can't express what that release of pressure was, it was like an explosion in me that finally let go...we had been approved...FLORA WAS COMING HOME!!
I have to admit that the rest of the day was a blur. I stayed at work and pretended to be busy, but I didn't do anything other than revel in my glee!! I posted on my forums that I was out and sent emails to my friends. As soon as the clock struck 5:00pm, I exited as soon as I could and I came home to Maria waiting at the glass back door with her finger pointing at me as I walked up the driveway and a big, "Hi Mama"!! I picked her up and squeezed her as hard as I could!! I think I was pretending she was Flora....I just needed to squeeze her!! Dave, Maria and I made plans to go out to dinner to celebrate and celebrate we did. I with my steak, Dave with his nachos and Maria with her spaghetti. It was the best celebratory dinner I have experienced thus far in my life.
With all of the hub bub of the email, the sobbing, the celebrating, I didn't really even pay attention to the rest of the email. They had sent me pictures, taken today!! How cool is that!! Here is our sweet Flora on the day she got out of PGN and became our daughter!!
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