3-27, OMG!!!!!!!!

We got a call from our adoption agency in Seattle.  Myriam asked me "have you read any of the blogs or anything?"  My answer, "No.  I started following the Rumor Queen last week and decided that checking the internet 10 times a day to see if there had been an update was unhealthy.  So, I stopped."  (The Rumor Queen is supposed to know anything and everything about the latest rumors of the referrals coming out of China.  I hadn't ever been to her site until last week and it was the LONGEST WEEK OF MY LIFE.  I'd check and check and check and the little box blared back at me "Matches through August 21, 2006".  I was waiting-- it needed to read August 30, 2006.  I NEEDED it to read August 30, 2006-- for my SANITY.  But, alas, the darn box never changed.  I erased the link and decided I'd do it the old-fashioned way-- I'd wait for the phone call.)  Yes, that was YESTERDAY.  The day after I stopped waiting for the pot to boil, it did.  Myriam called with the news that China had updated its website to read that matches had been made through August 31, 2006.  "Umm....WHAT DID YOU SAY?  You are NOT kidding me, right?  Oh My GOSH!!!!"  Yes, our number had come up.  It's now our turn.  I cannot even begin to tell you the emotions running through the Krauss Haus right now (but you know I'll try, don't you?).  EXCITEMENT.  ASTONISHMENT.  IMPATIENCE.  HAPPINESS.  CRAZINESS.  OVERWHELMINGNESS (is that even a word?!).  ANTICIPATION.....just to name a few.  So now we know that China has matched children with families through August 31, 2006.  We know that our LID (log-in-date) was August 30, 2006.  We can therefore deduce that our referral is on its way.  Somewhere, leaving China, is a DHL package containing a photo, a name, an estimated birthdate, an orphanage location and medical information for our little girl.  Somewhere over the Pacific are all of the answers we have been anxiously awaiting.  This package will go to our agency in Seattle.  The information will be emailed directly to us, but the bulk of it will need to be translated into English first.  Any bets that we'll have this information before the weekend?  It seems cruel to think that it may not arrive until the beginning of next week.  But, if we've waited for 5.5 years, we can wait a few more days.  I remember when we began this journey.  Nikolas was 4.  We decided on the agency we wanted to go through.  We took the ferry to Seattle and showed up on their doorstep-- misunderstanding that they were open on Saturdays.  They were not.  We looked at each other-- more than just a little disappointed that we couldn't start the process right away.  Anyway, that's what Sven and I were thinking.  Nikolas-- he totally misunderstood the situation.  He banged on the door screaming "I want my sister!!!!"  (Apparently he was under the impression it was more like a 'sister store'.  We had a LOT of explaining to do.....)  Yes, that was six years ago.  Now, we're all banging on that symbolic door screaming the very same thing.  Our time will come, our time will come.  And, I think it's coming now.