Home, for a bit

We arrived home late, late on Friday night...and Brian's on the phone with the airlines now trying to work out our flight arrangements for what will be trip 4. We think we're just going to have this upcoming trip be the last trip and stay in country until it's all complete. We had the option of going back, picking up the final court decree and filing for their passports, then returning home once again without them, only to turn around a short time later (on what would be trip 5) to take custody and wrap it all up. We've weighed lots of factors - including the fact that our current double-entry visas have one more entry on them and if we go and come back and go and come back again we'll need to get another round of visas, expedited, which will be a huge pain, stress, worry and expense. Yes, this means being in-country for a long period of time, but it's kind of what we'd already planned on all along. This way we can be with the girls, bonding and having them get used to us and us to them, prior to us getting on the plane and coming home. I can't imagine having the decree, which allows us to have custody, and leaving them in the baby home.

We'll see if it works out; he's talked to 4 people and is on hold again. We shall see.

Meanwhile, yesterday saw us buying things I was too hinky to buy before; I felt like we were tempting the fates too much with things like carseats, etc. We're cranking through our list of those types of items and I'm washing a whole batch of new clothes from a very excited Grandma. We're enjoying the comforts of home, especially knowing we'll be leaving again soon. We're eager to leave only because leaving means being able to be with the girls, which means we're closer to getting home, getting settled and being a family.

Until later!