After Yesterday

Yesterday, when I got home from work, I opened my email to find two messages from our agency. One said that we were missing a piece for our dossier. That means that I have to send one more item and our dossier won't be sent to China tomorrow after all. After all my quadruple-checking, I missed something. I was disproportionately devastated. It is only one week, after all, but every delay and issue feels like "fighting words" to this lady who longs to bring home her son.

Also in the inbox yesterday was a new form to fill out. All dossiers not sent at this point have a new form that replaces the one we have already done. Great. One more form to re-do.

Then Mick and I started working on the cabinets we are adding above our upper cabinets. I stubbed my toe on the ladder in the kitchen as I made dinner. The cabinets didn't fit in the space. Two of the 5 cabinets were upside-down and when we took out the shelves and flipped them to make it right, they now have a stripe I will need to prime and paint again inside. Then the light strip that winds through top and bottom of the whole row was put in backwards and everything had to be pulled down and re-done. At this point, I am so discouraged I want to go to bed and give up, but we keep going. Then the vacuum cord bumps the stack of glass cabinet doors. Two doors shattered. 

Yesterday was frustrating. But tonight, we have success! And it is so much sweeter after the struggle of yesterday. We mailed our last document while on our evening walk. Mick is finishing up hanging these cabinets and putting in the light

. Our success tonight doesn't mean that yesterday didn't happen- our glass doors are still broken and our dossier is still delayed- but we are moving forward again. And I am more thankful for the small steps we took tonight than I would have been for the big steps I was hoping to take yesterday. And I am glad for that.