The Jeopardy Theme Song

You know it, right? The one they play when you're waiting?

It's our background score these days. We're waiting--for any more news if possible about Alex's institution, about the special needs list getting registered, March 29th (the dossier submission date) if noting else works...waiting about everything, it feels like.

In the meantime, we're building beds...one from a kit (for our littlest) and one connected to our oldest's loft (for Alex). Jerry is assiduously learning Russian, and I just feel stupider and stupider at it.

Jerry is still fasting from sweets and desserts, and says that continues until we hear good news about Alex. We're all praying.

We're making sure we're techno-outfitted there so we can be in contact with home folks, and can use Google Translate English-Russian when need be. Haven't bought anything yet.

I'm planning to start packing (I kid you not) this week--why not, is my feeling, and when we do get a travel date, a lot of things happen fast.

I have to admit, we're just tired at this point and are trying to put things in order, enjoy some time with our kids, stay sane. It helps that we got news that Alex is in a somewhat better institution than we had feared, although we still don't know much at all. It feels a bit surreal. But we'll continue to wait.

Thanks for your support, everyone.

Peace, Susan