Lessons learned from our adoption process, chapter 1

So, I was on the phone with Amy, Awesome mom to Delaney, Riley, Quinn and Junie the other day.  Amy is the ANGEL who posted about Ava (bye the way, Yun's American name will be Ava Lee) also living at the same SWI (in China, orphanages are called Social Welfare Institutes) as her daughter Junie on LPA's (Little People of America) Adoption list serve.  Amy just brought Junie home in August.  That day, I was a bit frantic because the day before I had sent our dossier documents to the China Consulate in Chicago, BUT had forgotten 2 important bits of information, copies of our passports for identification purposes.  I had realized that the night before and so Brian and I had been worrying about what the consulate would do, figuring they would send it back, costing us more time, and to us, that translates into more nights that little Miss Ava would be falling asleep all alone, not knowing she now has a family who loves her.  I had called Amy to see what her experience was with the Consulate.   As we were talking, I got a call waiting notice.  I ignored it, figuring who ever it was, if they wanted to talk with me, they'd leave a message and I'd just call them back.  So, I continued chatting with Amy about our situation (still worrying inside).  Amy suggested overnighting the copies with a note explaining our situation plus, I had already emailed the Consulate too.   We also talked about Amy's family and how Junie was doing... She's doing WoNdErFuLLy bye the way... I even had a chance to talk directly with Miss Junie, however, she wasn't in the chatting mood.  Even though she wouldn't talk to me, that made my day!  I felt as if I was talking to a celebrity, well, I WAS!!!!  After that, Amy and I finished up our chat and went on with our busy days, she had to run to gymnastics and I had to start dinner.  Have I mentioned that I tend to forget things sometimes.  Well, it does happen.  So, yesterday, after returning home from a fabulous Saturday morning breakfast at the Mineshaft with BRIAN, I came home and checked the house phone for messages and we had one waiting.  I couldn't believe it....it was someone from the CHINA CONSULATE!!!!  They were the call waiting I ignored while on the phone with Amy talking about what I should do about about forgetting my passport copies!  So, this very polite sounding man with a chinese accent had left a nice message about what we should do, GO FIGURE!!!  He said to simply fax the copies to their office. So, I hung up the phone and RAN outside to tell Brian, he was outside with "the boys", (the dogs) Jack and Soyer.  He got himself ready to go and headed off to FAX the copies.  Thank you BABE!!! SOOOOOOOOOOO lesson learned.... while worrying about anything, if you're on the phone talking about what you are worried about and you get a call waiting beep......ANSWER IT!!!!!!!!!!!