Waiting again but happily and more peaceful this time...

Some days it seems to be flying by and others seem dreadfully long (I'm using my Simon Cowell accent there!). We are waiting for news of how Aislin is doing. It's getting close to her birthday, only 18 days until she is 1 year old...hope she gets her parcel for her birthday. I've been reading the websites and it seems the people from the US who got their referral a few days ahead of us, are travelling in mid December, I'm not sure why we aren't other than there are more delays with our paperwork since we received it later. It would be kind of neat to spend Christmas in China! Oh well, it will only be 10 days after that and we are on our way! I finish up work on the 29th of December. It's also nice that now adoptive parents qualify for parental leave, so I will hopefully be home with Aislin at least until September or later until something permanent opens up at work. My brain is Mommy mode now, panicking about all the things I don't know yet about being a Mom, I'm sure some of it will come as I go along. Anyway, we expect an update in the next week or two! Maybe they'll send along another picture!