Minor Meltdown

So Tuesday night at dinner, Tim nonchalontly tells me that an aquaintance of his who is registered for our MAPP class mentioned that he and his wife attended an orientation a couple weeks ago.  This sent my mind and heart into overdrive!  Was this orientation mandatory?  Why weren't we told about it?  Are we even registered?  How long will we have to wait for the next set of classes?  I checked the website that lists the MAPP infom for our area, and was maddened (but not surprised) to see that it was way out of date and did not have any information on current classes.  I cried a little and yelled at the computer some.

First thing Wednesday morning, I sent emails and left phone messages for the class teacher and the lady who was supposed to register us inquiring about the orientation.  I was as civil as possible in my messages, but inside I was secretly wishing to ring their necks if they were at fault for us missing the orientation!  So Wednesday slowly passed with no word from either of them.  I tried to tell myself that both are busy and are likely out of the office today.

Thursday came and went.  I took that day off work to spend with Tim, since it was his birthday.  We did everything on his birthday wishlist, including eating BBQ (big yuck to that), and seeing a movie.  We attempted to go to the batting cages, but the weather was awful.  I was mostly distracted, but my mind kept wondering back to whether or not we had missed the classes.

Friday morning at work I rejoiced when I saw responses from both workers!  That orientation was not for our class, and the other couple is likely going through another agency!  I swear I heard my heart sing!  We are indeed registered!  So it's less than a month til our classes start.  Luckily our classes are expedited and we only have three weeks of them.  Then it's a home study and the wait for a placement.  I'm sure the HS will take ages and we'll be waiting even longer for a placement since we want a low legal risk infant.  But I can't help but to be excited that we are on our way to meeting our little boy or girl!