Oh what a day! It has been about 10 hours since Lorri flew out of Nashville International bound for Ethiopia (more on that later) and Ella and I already miss her terribly. Here are just a few of my top reasons for missing her thus far:
1) I am now in charge of updating this "blog" thing. Lorri gave me a crash course late last night and told me to keep it updated. I had to remind her that I could create a lovely Excel spreadsheet but had no earthly idea how to even sign in to a blog let alone create, update and upload to it.
2) Ella has informed me time after time today that, "Mama does that better than you or if mama were here..." The latest time was when I was reading her a book before we said our prayers; Mama reads books better than you, dad. I could not argue at all with that because Lorri can bring any book to life and at any hour of the day. I guess that is why she is a fabulous teacher!
3) I looked at my watch and noticed that it was 6:30pm and Ella asked me if we were going to eat dinner...ooops! I quickly ran into the kitchen and whipped up a delicious meal consisting of noodles. Before I gave Ella her plate of noodles, I began feeling like Lorri was somehow watching me so I got creative and cooked a bag of frozen orange chicken stir-fry. Ella came running in the kitchen and said that something smelled really good! Wheew...only 8 more days!
As I said before, we took Lorri and Sherry (sister-in-law) to the airport today at 10:30am and checked all of their luggage and then came the hard part of telling Lorri that we would see her in 8 days. Lorri has only been away from Ella 1 night since she was placed in our arms in Guangzhou, China over 4 years ago. This was a very emotional time for all of us!
Lorri called from Dulles Airport (Washington D.C.)and said that the first leg of her trip almost didn't happen. The first reason was because the airplane had to be fixed before they could leave and the second reason was because she nearly had an anxiety attack from the plane being extremely small, filled to capacity and had no air conditioning. Did I mention she was assigned the back seat? She said that after she knocked her head on the ceiling a few times from the turbulance, she was fine. After their layover in DC, they departed for Rome. After a stop in Rome, they will be headed for Ethiopia.
As I type this, Lorri is several thousand miles over the water heading toward a little 6 month old boy from Ethiopia that has no clue how lucky he is to have a mama like Lorri a few short hours away from...forever!
1 comment:
Hey Brian!! Thanks so much for updating the blog! I have been thinking about you guys and wondering when the departure date would be - been checking the blog regularly for updates! Congratulations to you both - Elias is lucky to be getting you as a dad, too!
Love you guys - can't wait to hear more!!
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