It’s time to celebrate!

image via Princess Lasertron found via That’s Happy

We received the best news today, Ger has received his visa! I cannot tell you the total relief, consuming excitement and pure joy that we are feeling. He has been gone 420 days to be exact. That’s a long time for a couple let alone a newly married one. 

This process has been grueling. We’ve dealt with thousands of dollars in visa fees, incompetent lawyers (which ultimately delayed the process by at least 5+ months) and not to mention the time apart. I don’t wish this process on my worst enemy.

Tomorrow afternoon I will see my husband walk through those airport doors to freedom. I cannot tell you how proud I am of him after everything he has been through and how proud I am of us to survive such an experience. We’ve grown so much closer in this past year and we’ve learned a lot. It reminds me that in every situation there is opportunity to grow and always something to be thankful for.

Menorca Circa. 1999

If all goes well with my husband’s visa he should be home in two weeks! We want to take a nice vacation to celebrate and are trying to decide where we want to go.

Ger was going through old family photos and came across these amazing ones from a trip to Menorca. Looks like my kind of place!

images via The Power Family Collection

I feel like Charlie Brown right now. Due to all of the snow in Europe our flight to Ireland was canceled. We won’t be able to get to Dublin until Monday. This year has been a true test of patience for me. One thing constantly after another. We also just found out that Ger won’t be joining me back in the States for at least another 7 months. Did you hear that? I said 7 MONTHS. It is absolutely unbelievable and leaves me completely unglued. If you remember we started this Visa disaster back in May and it still isn’t resolved. To try to redeem Christmas and our last few days together we’ve decided to do our best to make the holidays special. I put up the tree, the turkey is defrosting and most importantly we are all stocked up with alcohol. We will keep moving forward…

I feel like Charlie Brown right now. Due to all of the snow in Europe our flight to Ireland was canceled. We won’t be able to get to Dublin until Monday.

This year has been a true test of patience for me. One thing constantly after another. We also just found out that Ger won’t be joining me back in the States for at least another 7 months. Did you hear that? I said 7 MONTHS. It is absolutely unbelievable and leaves me completely unglued. If you remember we started this Visa disaster back in May and it still isn’t resolved.

To try to redeem Christmas and our last few days together we’ve decided to do our best to make the holidays special. I put up the tree, the turkey is defrosting and most importantly we are all stocked up with alcohol.

We will keep moving forward…

(Source: ninestoriesss)

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