Notification!!!!

One year ago Steve was hiking in Mexico with Dave and family, I was home at the loft in Pioneer Square with the two cats. Lolo our tiny little 2 lb ancient kitty that had found us a year before was going downhill. I took here to a vet who while very sweet and kind wasn't completely honest with me about the rapid decline in Lol and even though I the oncology nurse forever was well awre she was dying, grabbed the offer of giving her IV fluids at home. Hmm. Yeah. As Imentioned she weighed aobut 2 lbs and you have never seen a tinier kitty in your life. WHen they gave her fluids in the vets' office - the tech pulled the skin at her neck up and stuck the needl in only to have it come out the other side. Long story, but I ended up hospicing her by myself. I struggled with that decsion as does any pet owner when the time to say good by comes, but also felt good about it. I cried for days and of course could not get ahold of Steve to relay this turn of events.

As i wandered arounf the loft and watched the ferries go by on the Sound, I decided to listen to a message that had come through several days before. I couldn't hear exactly what the man was saying, but thought he said his name was John and on about the fourth attempt thoughtI heard "John from Faith." WHAT!!!!!

I called and got thorugh to the woman who was the coordinator at that time. She told me they had a referral for us, a boy and would I like to see some pics?

Silly question. Within an hour the world was seeing Thang and the return emails were filling the inbox. Of course I still couldn't talk to Steve, but I was able to email his brother in Mexcio to let him know of this other new turn of events.

That night Lolo stopped moving mostly. I layed with her on our bed and like a maniac sang made up songs over and over and over all night. She died the next morning at 11 am. Such sadness mixed with joy. She was a very sweet strong kitty who brought me great happiness in the year we knew her.

SO now after a YEAR of waiting, we got an email from the embassy on the 18th of March at 9:42. TO be honest Steve and I thought it was paerwork requests and the notification was labeled "preliminary." We got a little excited, but were also a bit reserved haivng been thorugh too much. I forwarded the email to Amy at Faith asking if this was what we had been waiting for. She emailed us while we were asleep and sadi "YES" it was it.

The world has been a bit different since that moment.