Last Minute Craziness

A couple of weeks ago we found out that a form we needed to have in order to bring Luke back into the US, was being held up because some of the information on our Home Study had not been updated. We found this out 3 weeks before we were supposed to leave. The whole process of what we would need to do in order to get this form in our hand was supposed to take about 3 weeks. So we knew things would be down to the wire and we were worried we would have to spend a lot of money to change our plane tickets, and the date when we would be able to get Luke would have to be postponed.
However, after spending two tank fulls of gasoline in as many days, driving up and down Utah and Salt Lake Counties hand delivering everything, and thanks to a very wonderful lady named Anderea, who works for the office that did our back ground checks, and Shawn from USCIS, we were able to get our paperwork back within one week instead of three!! What a miracle.

Tuesday the 14th I over-night-ed, through FedEx, a cashiers check to our adoption agency in Boise, ID, to pay for all our hotels and flights within China. Two days later our agency called and told us they had not received our check yet. I called FedEx and looked up the tracking number. It said the check had gone as far as Boise, ID, on the delivery truck on the way to the agency, but was never delivered. All day long yesterday we were on the phone to FedEx and our agency trying to find the check. I didn't take out insurance on the package, I just didn't think of it. So Rick and I were trying to figure out how we were going to come up with the money all over again (the amount was almost half of our total adoption - A LOT OF MONEY FOR US. Very stressful. Finally, FedEx told us to go ahead and cancel the cashiers check (apparently if it has not been cashed yet, you can cancel a cashiers check) and they would pay for all the fees it cost to have it canceled and re-issued ($145), reimburse us the $22 we paid to ship it over night in the first place and give us free shipping to over-night it again to our agency.
At least all this has kept us focused on other things besides simply counting down the days until we get to meet Luke.