IT IS OFFICIAL!!!

We got the call this afternoon. We are to be in Kazakhstan on 05 July and will likely meet our daughter the following day. To get there we will most likely be leaving in the evening of Monday 02 July and arriving in Kaz on the morning of the 4th, so that means two weeks from yesterday we leave. There is much to do before then. Happily, the projects to ready the house for sale are winding down and there is light at the end of that tunnel. So too now there seems to be a bright light at the end of the adoption tunnel, though I am mindful that there are still a number of potential delays ahead.

For the first time my mind is beginning to slow down enough to really begin to take in the fact that I soon will be a father. Not for a long weekend, or a summer job, but forever. There are not too many forever events in one's life, and though I recognize that becoming a father isn't exactly unusual in the human experience, at the point at which every individual crosses over from child to parent, there must surely be a paradigm shift the likes of which nothing can quite prepare you for. Bring it on, after 40 years, I'm ready. More Soon. Take Care.