Tickets Are Bought!!

We bought our tickets today- ALL of them! There's Mom's ticket to Seattle to pick up Marcy, tickets for both of them to DC, then there are tickets for all three of us to ETHIOPIA!!!! Flights are all bought and ready to go.
I can hardly believe we are leaving in just under two weeks!
Here I sit in California, planning the trip home next week and then the trip out to Africa a week later! I don't think I have ever flown this much in such a short period of time.
I can hardly believe it's real. I find myself sitting in stunned silence throughout the day at the reality of it. The grin the spreads across my face only gets bigger when I pinch myself to make sure it's really real. To be honest, the emotion of it all is a bit overwhelming. One minute I am grinning from ear to ear, the next I am full of anxiety over all the "to do's". Then of course there is the inevitable sobbing over the relief of knowing it won't be much longer until I meet the loves of my life. My mind is full of a million different things and I can't seem to shut it up enough to just enjoy these last few days of relative peace and quiet. I am trying to relish it all, knowing that the memory of this time will be shared with my daughters a hundred times over. I don't want to forget any of it.
So, here is the plan. This coming weekend will be spent with a college friend in San Francisco, then I head back up to Redding and Chico for a couple final days of friend and family time, then it's back to Maryland and Garrett (who is as beside himself with excitement as I am) and all of my "to do's".
There are bags to double check and re-organize, my own luggage to prepare and final preparations to be made before Mom and Marcy arrive on the Sunday before we leave. Then we will empty out all of our "grown up" stuff, and repack it as tightly as possible before we put the markers on our bags and call it all finished!
It is going to be a fast couple of weeks. I promise I'll post some pictures, keep you updated and take you along with me as best I can.
I am still in shock (HUGE GRIN)!