I am so sad right now .... When we talked to our agency only 3 weeks ago, they only had 2 homestudies in Taiwan.... We rushed to get all our paperwork done in record time and today, I inquired about where we are in line and if we will end up making the 3rd family to have our homestudy go to Taiwan and they just informed me that the final homestudy went today and now we'll have to wait for 3-6 months before we can even submit our homestudy. Disappointed doesn't even express my thoughts right now because part of me feels very deceived by the agency. This is all probably another test, but I am not really happy right at this moment. All the rushing I did today was really pointless. As it turns out, I have plenty of time to get things done. I'll probably have a beter perspective later, but now I am just not that happy. God, help me. I need Your perspective.
I wanted to capture my moment by moment FIRST marathon experience so here goes: I'll start with the night before: We went over to Aaron's parents house to have some dinner with them as well as Micah & Danielle (Aaron's brother and wife) and their kids, Gabriel and Grace, and Mathew and Taylor (cousins of our kids). We got back to our hotel (Hilton downtown) around 7:15pm and I organized my outfit for the big day while Aaron took the kids swimming at the pool. I agonized back and forth about whether to carry my Nathan hydration vest or not for a week and Aaron finally helped me make the decision that although the aid stations were going to be plenty, I should go ahead and carry my own water.... because he knows that 1) I don't like stopping to get water even if it's a moment because I feel like I lose momentum 2) I am really BAD at drinking from the cups and have gotten multiple water sloshes up my nose (which hurts!) and water on my shoes (which, is BA...
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