as in my thumbs..
Today we picked up the copies of the Court Decree and then came back to the apt. To wait. Or so it seems. Now that we have submitted our application for Harry's passport, that's it. Once that's ready I'll book my tickets and head to Moscow for a few days, then return home. I've no idea where in Moscow we'll stay - I suppose I'll decide that after I know WHEN I'm going.
And now, I'm antsy. I miss my home, my husband, my grown kids, my church community, my dog, and everything that is familiar in my life. I want to sleep in my bed, I want to cook foods that I simply can't here. I want to pick up the phone and not have to think about a calling card, and leave my laptop running 24/7 without fear I'll run out of internet minutes. It's been 21 weeks since we left home in September for the first of (ugh) five court hearings. Since then I have spent more time here, than back home.
I want to return to my "normal" existence; homeschool in the room we created, go to church on Sunday, visit family and friends, blow-dry my hair, use the clothes dryer if I please, start a new book, watch the Walton's on DVD until Mike threatens to hide them, and enjoy a large mocha swirl iced latte.
As much as I love it here, I want to be home. So many things I've got going in mind. Things I want to do and see. Seems we've lived for so long, not being able to plan anything in advance. Often because we were waist high in paperwork, but mostly because we just never knew when we'd need to return here to Russia for court. Four years we lived that way, and now that part of our life is past, I am itching to look to the future. I've got a list of things I want to do and the list keeps getting longer.
The really weird thing is - somewhere at the top of that list is to plan our vacation. Where? Well back here to Siberia in few years. Where else?
Promises Promises
13 years ago
I can't imagine being away from home for so long! I pray you and the boys head to Moscow soon, and then you'll be home for good!
ReplyDeleteI loved reading that you want to return to Irkutsk/Siberia in a few years!!! When we tell people we want to go back and visit (after finally completing the adoption) they think we're crazy and that we'd want to stay as far away from Russia as possible.
Hope your weekend warms up, and that maybe you can travel to be with Debbie, I'm sure it'd be nice for both of you to have the company.
Praying for you all.
I KNOW just how you feel, I long for the same things.There is no place like home so maybe if you click your heels 3 times you can be in the land of OZ.....lol
ReplyDeleteIf it makes you feel any better, just as much as you miss being here, we miss having you here, I am fed up with it all and have decided that you guys will be home in less than a week :) (provided the passport office agrees) but seriously, we miss you and you guys will be coming home soon
ReplyDeleteSo, I am sitting here crying for you. I SO KNOW that feeling - you are just done with being away from home, and just want to GO HOME. Some call it homesickness, I call it a need for normalcy!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it funny the things you really miss? I miss my electric toothbrush - nothing gets teeth as clean as that puppy!
I also miss the cats. They are my fur-babies, and stress out when I am not home for extended periods of time. (yes, I am one of those wierd animal lover people)
With ya on missing my bed! Your own sheets, that smell like your house, and the blankets that are the perfect weight - not those too heavy or too flimsy or too itchy Russian ones.
Will keep you in our prayers - think of it this way, this is definately the last 5% of the last 5% of the last 5% ...which is supposed to be the hardest, right?
Oh AMEN!! and we haven't even been here as long! But I cannot yet think about a return trip LOL!
ReplyDeleteThere is better milk! PRovided you drink it within 36 hours or so, it's just like whole milk from home! I'ts a white bag with green stripes and a cow on the front. I'll resend the picture!
ReplyDeleteAnd with any luck I will be back there too
ReplyDeleteThat's funny! While we were on our second trip, I can remember Clay saying, "I just want to be normal again!" LOL
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to have warm feelings about Russia again. I don't think that will happen until I've got our second daughter's hand in one hand and her adoption decree, passport, and plane tickets home in the other...
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