Getting ready for tomorrow!

After many setbacks and delays and two VERY long and tiring trips to Chicago (a five hour drive by car ONE WAY) to get John's visa all ready, John will finally be leaving for South Korea from Chicago tomorrow morning. Yes, this does mean making ONE more trip down there but fortunately, the majority of the driving will fall to a family friend though it will be a VERY early morning for us as John's flight leaves at 11AM. He would like to get there by 8AM which means leaving here at 3AM or earlier. So another VERY long day awaits us one that will be made a little harder by John's departure. We'll be joining him but not for at least a month (possibly even two months) so it will be a fairly lonely time here. Fortunately, I'm just a short distance away from friends and family so all should go well. Still, I do worry that Natalie will have a hard time without John there to keep her occupied but I did buy a copy of Annie and once I have the desktop set up, she can start watching that in our room until the VCR and DVD player finally get set up.

I'm sure too that the next month to two months will also go quick with me making plans myself for our own departure. I will still need to get our visas done (thank goodness there's no need for any trips to Chicago to do that, that will all be done by mail), go through both mine and Natalie's clothes and determine just what will be taken, go through Natalie's toys, go through books, finish my scrapbooking project so that the finished scrapbook can go with, cut down on the things I am using here bit by bit, sell/get rid of old clothes of Natalie's, try to sell some more nursing necklaces, and more that I'm not thinking of right now all while dealing with an almost 3 year old toddler who has MORE than enough things to get into during the day when no one is looking (in particular, the cats that are outside that she keeps trying to sneak out to go see).

Add to that birthdays and holidays and people to see and things to do, I have to say I think the next two months are going to go by WAAAAY too fast for me and the next thing I know Natalie and I will be on an airplane ourselves! Don't want to think about that just yet though cause eek! not ready for that and can't really wrap my mind around that at this time.