So, Angela Refreshes The FedEx Website

Angela’s Perspective

I had called our social worker, Joan Kim on Monday 11/5/07, after we confirmed through the CCAA website that matches had been made through December 08, 2005, and that our referral for Gracie was on it’s way! Joan told us that we should have IT in hand Tuesday or Wednesday. Tuesday at 4.30p she confirmed that we wouldn’t be receiving the package that we’ve waited oh, so long for yet another day. At 11am, I was provided with the tracking number, and I hunkered down next to my computer, hitting refresh oh, every three or four seconds on the FedEx website tracking page. At 1.50pm on November 7th, WE RECEIVED OUR PACKAGE! I ran home as fast as I could… record time from Manyunk to Havertown, about 14.3 minutes… (approximately). Anyway, I got the package, and per my previous agreement with Matt I opened the package, saw our baby’s photos and cried. I called Matt immediately! He told me to get back to work and scan the photos on the good scanner and email him ASAP. As I was looking over the adoption agreement, (half in Chinese and half in English), I found one other note in English from our agency. After waiting two years, we had about 4 hours to sign the agreement (we had to coordinate a meeting at Kinko’s in Wynnewood) to both sign the agreement, make copies and fed ex back to NYC for the next morning… I had one of my co-workers from Hong Kong, give us a quick translation of Gracie’s story and her growth at the orphanage. The hardest part was watching Wicky read the report and chuckle, while waiting for him to tell me, and then I could call Matt!

Anyway, we signed the paperwork, and made FedEx just in the nick of time. The travel meeting is November 17th- hopefully, we’ll have a definitive travel date at the meeting. Our best guess with what we’ve heard from other families that have been through the process is that we’re looking at traveling mid to late January.

Matt’s Perspective

Coming soon.