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A week later
Well, I haven’t posted any of this because I really haven’t wanted to think it was real. But, I thought it would be nice to fill you all in, on yet another hold up we have faced. The addendum was supposed to get to Guatemala last Fri. but we got it sent back to us in the mail on Fri. because the NY post office said the postage was wrong. Todd took it right to our post office when it came, and the guy there said they counted the one dollar stamps as one cent stamps. So, he sent it right out that day. I emailed Teresa and told her what happened and she called me right away and said,” you didn’t send it through the post office, did you?”. So naturally, I started freaking out!!! I told her we did, because we got the addendum in the mail on a Fri. and knew that our courier in Harrisburg only went to the DOS on Mon. and Thurs.. She told me that Fed Ex didn’t deliver on Sat. so the only way to get it to her so she could take it on Mon. was through the post office. So, we just pre-paid it there to go to all the locations, including Guatemala. Teresa didn’t sound to happy about that, and said she has never had good luck with the post office and we should have sent it through Fed Ex. So, for the next couple days, I was really worried.
Then I talked to her on Mon. and she said it hadn’t gotten to Guat. yet, so we took the other copy we have of the addendum and sent it to the courier in Harrisburg by Fed Ex and told her to wait to hear from me on whether to take it on her Thurs. run. Well, today is Weds. and the addendum still isn’t there. So, I emailed her and told her just to do it over and send it on. It should get to Guat. by Mon. or Tue. and we should be back in by Thurs.
I was so upset about all this, I pretty much cried all of Mon. It’s only about a week delay, but we have been out of PGN this time for almost a month. That is so frustrating to me!! He turned 6 months on Mon. and I was really thinking he would be home or we would at least be out of PGN by now. I didn’t prepare myself for this at all! Cole asks me all the time if I am sad that Mason isn’t home yet. I hate this. I know that God has a reason for all of this, and I’m so greatful to Him that Mason is being so well taken care of. But it is still so hard to see him growing without us! This week especially, I feel like the end is never going to come. So, as I type out my poor me sob story, please just continue to pray that we will be out of PGN soon, without any other problems! And that Mason knows that he’s not with his mommy and daddy yet. I don’t want him to be miserable or sad, but I don’t want him to feel at home yet either. I hope that makes sense! Thanks so much for all of your prayers and support for us through this.