So we are at 2 days and counting.

Apparently this is really happening.

We have tickets, visas, passports and hotel reservations. Wow.

Somewhere along the way the reality met up with my psyche. It happened at
approximately 3am, actually. I woke up thinking and was wide awake and could
not sleep at all. My psyche informed me that we could not find the saline
nose spray that I recently bought because that is where my mind was, of all
places, at 3am.

I forced myself to stay in bed and battle through the insomnia. I slept on
and off for a few hours and somewhere along the way dreamt that I was in the
cockpit of the airplane about to take off when the taxi-ing airplane had a
sudden change of plans and returned to taxi-ing instead of lift-off. My
dreams are just THAT exciting!

I am feeling pretty good at how prepared we are for the trip, itself. So I'm
moving on to bigger fish. Today I went Thanksgiving shopping but who knew
they didn't really have turkeys out yet!? Doesn't everyone shop for Turkey
Day in October? Haha. So I got what I could and will have to finish when we
get home. I also ordered all of my oldest son's birthday gifts so we can
celebrate just as soon as we get home. I have not yet tackled my hubby's
birthday on December 9 BUT I will say that I was singing - out loud -
Christmas carols today at the store. Scary stuff. And I asked hubby to bring
up our Christmas bins so I can dive right in when we get home but he would
not oblige. Scrooge. And also I decided to prepare almost all of our
adoption announcements - minus photos - now. Won't that be nice to have
behind me?

I'm pretty sure what I am supposed to be doing is cleaning but I don't nest
that way, unfortunately. So tomorrow it is sewing, haircuts for all the boys
in the house, laundry, bringing in our kayak for the winter, cleaning out
the van and the refrigerator of anything that might spoil while we are gone.
Isn't that exciting? Anyone wanna come clean my house?