The days are all blending together down in Panama, we have
completely forgotten what day it is and how long we have actually been waiting
for our return home. Our DNA test should hopefully be completed either end of
day today or tomorrow, making it again another weekend where nothing will be
accomplished.
The DNA has been at the lab in Toronto since Tuesday morning
and they promised it would be a 24 hour turn around, well this isn’t the case
in legal DNA testing (which we found out yesterday) the minimum it will take is
three days. We are beginning to seriously wonder why people just don’t tell you
the worst-case scenario instead of false promises, which just brings our hopes
up.
Today will be three days and hopefully the lab will send off
the results to both us, and the Canadian consulate. We have been in constant
contact with the consulate and it still seems this last DNA piece is the
missing key that our return home to Canada is relying on. Once this test is
sent off the consulate should be able to jump into action and hopefully within
a day or two we will have a passport…. bearing in mind that again something out
of the blue doesn’t come up and come crashing down on us again. (Can you sense
our frustrations?)
I wonder what this experience has taught us about being
parents, could it be to be patient and not let things bother us too much? Or could
it be that it really helped us hit home how much family and friends back home
mean to us and how we want nothing more to share our Layton with them. We will
look back at this time hopefully and not have fear, and a bad taste in our
mouths, but time will only tell. Our Layton is still perfect; he lights up our
days and makes us smile. He doesn’t know what is going on with the stress, and
thankfully I hope he never does. All he needs to know is that his parents loved
him so much we moved heaven and earth to bring him back to Calgary to live…. at
least this is what it feels like to us.
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