My blog titles are getting entirely generic. My creative juices are zapped.

I do have some updates:

Family: Mom is doing extraordinary. Still no pathology reports but she is hoping to go home today - 3 days before scheduled! That could change but so far so good. Also a shout-out to my Daddy who had a birthday yesterday! Apparently he is livin' it up on vacation somewhere in New Mexicon without a cell signal but I thought of him all day.

Travel: We got word that our G&R will be November 1. This is a remarkable date because it is the day I gave birth to my very first child 12 years ago, who will be there to meet and bring into our family the child who may be our very last child. Sniff. It makes me extra-teary to think about. Of course I'm already a little worried about how I will make our G&R day and my eldest son's birthday special, each in their own right, each year. Any opinions on that would be great. I'm such a worrier :-)

We have rooms booked at the Sedona. We are *over the moon* about the Sedona. It will be perfect for our family. I wish it was more centrally located but otherwise it will be great. We can greatly reduce our packing because we will have an in-room washer and dry and you all can look forward to me pestering you throughout the trip because we will also have broadband wireless. We will be staying in Hanoi for the entire trip which has it's upsides and downsides. I had hoped to visit HCMC where my boys' father was born but he has no family in the area anymore so it isn't a huge loss. It will save us tons of money and time to stay in Hanoi, too. So I'm happy. Also the fact that our G&R is one day later than anticipated means we will have a full day to recover from the flights and that is *perfect*. Ideal. So we are thrilled.

Shout Outs: Congrats to Mrs. Broccoli Guy for her TA announcement. No mother and child should have had to endure the wait they did for travel. I am so glad this is finally IT!!!!!!!! Also to Stacey who also received her TA! And to my good friend Carolyn who successfully completed her G&R a few days ago and is happily a Girlie-Mama now too. Is that not the cutest photo EVER?? And a BIG congrats to a few of you - you know who you are - who also have TA or unofficial TA but don't have blogs or aren't posting it yet but hope to be traveling in the next week or two as well. I'm so happy for you guys.

I have met so many great friends, online, through this long journey and the fact that so many of you are traveling RIGHT NOW is like icing on the cake for me. I really hope I will be able to meet all of your families while we are all in Vietnam together. So drop me an email, a comment, whatever so that I can hunt you down and we can hang out!!!!! You know where I'll be!!! :-)

And one last shout-out to the Tigers who play Game 1 in the World Series tonight! Who would have thought, a year ago, that I would be getting ready to go pick my daughter up from Vietnam the same week the Tigers play in the World Series???? Wow. Two such unlikely events - I am going to take it as a good luck sign, for sure.