Monday in Tainan, today's the day.

[unclejimbo]

Up early, got to love jet lag. (Not!)

All the waiting and stuff is almost over. We meet our son today. *wow!*

Donna calling home on Skype to check messages to see if anything important has come to light. We're both up and ready to go for the most part, it is just so darned early, the only thing open is the 7-11. Ah well, that's what the Internet is for, ya?

It is going to be a busy day. First to get over to St. Lucy's to pick up Xander, then run back to the hotel to check out, Then head over to the High Speed Rail station for a quick trip up to Taoyuan and THEN check back into our first hotel... @.@ Plus I'll be lugging the Bruiser's (our luggage) along while Donna wrangles the kiddo. Ought to be an interesting day, now if only I could get rid of this headache and the butterflies in my stomach.

Do all expectant fathers/parents feel this way before things get started? I imagine so, it just feels weird. I suppose it is like when you're on a new roller coaster and awaiting your fate... ^^

More on the day later, I imagine once we get resettled. Hopefully we don't scare him too badly today. I hope he had a great day yesterday with his foster parents. Anything to make this transition for him easier is always welcome.

Time now 3:45 am on Monday in Taiwan.

Comments

[poetpaladin.livejournal.com]

Wow you're up early, daddy! Anxious much? :)

Good luck to you two!!!!

[unclejimbo.livejournal.com]

Anxious, jet lagged, stuff...

Donna's posting pics on Facebook. I'm listening to NASA TV on my laptop and wondering why stupid Facebook will not let me upload my videos...

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

You want him to have attached to his foster family; the adopted kids that are really awful to deal with are the ones who can't do attachments. All adoptees in this sort of situation will have some reaction, depends on the kid, and some are quieter than others about it. He doesn't know you guys from a hole in the wall; his attachment is to the people who took good care of him and loved him. And in time, you guys will totally fill that bill, and he won't really look back at all.

I had to shave off my beard to get Mere to attach to me; she didn't see many guys and certainly no White Hairy guys, and I was just beyond her deal-with-this weird threshold.

All of us have had that sort of pit of the stomach feeling; the concept of This Is Someone You Will Be Attached To Forever is rather odd and daunting and now-WTF-should-I-expect. I had no daddy lessons, and there's a video of me feeding her that first day where she sneezed in the process and I just about jumped through the ceiling. Nerves.