Strange Dreams

I had a weird dream last night that our agency rep met us outside of someones house in their driveway and told us that someone from the agency would be calling to give us a heads up about "Cody". (in my dream I knew that Cody was the baby we were going to adopt although the name Cody isn't very Russian, so I don't know where I got that name) They told me that even though we are travelling blind to Russia they always give their military families advance notice of their referrals. I tried to explain that we are no longer military but they said that was okay and would let us know about Cody. They also told us that we need to be open to all forms of adoption (international and domestic) and to keep an open mind. I walked into this strange house and a pregnant lady was sitting on a bar stool smoking a cigarette. She was talking to a lady that I knew in my dream and told her that this pregnancy was a surprise and how it was going to mess up her plans and that she had just got her life on track again and she wanted to put the baby up for adoption. She turned to me and asked me if I knew anyone that would want to adopt a baby. I started crying and couldn't talk and the lady that I knew told the pregnant woman that we had been trying for 7 years to get pregnant and would love to adopt the baby. The woman put her cigarette out and I managed to stop crying long enough to say, "And I don't even smoke or drink or do drugs". The next scene was in the operating room and the baby was being born but it had it's umbilical cord coming out of it's back and the umbilical cord looked like the breathing hole/tube of the squid creature in Pirates of the Caribbean. The doctor assured us it was a routine operation to remove a back umbilical cord and then the dream ended with us having the domestic baby and we had "Cody" our Russian son.

I have no idea what that dream means other than I should obviously not eat so many Milk Duds and Slim Jims before bedtime. :-) Any dream experts out there care to take a crack at my dream!? Haa Haa!

In real adoption news...we are still waiting for immigration services to send us a finger print appointment. Our dossier should be in Russia right now and being translated. It might make it in time to get registered before the Russian government closes for Christmas but if not, we are not concerned. We are confident that all the timing will work out for the best. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and that Santa was good to you. Christmas next year should look and sound very different for so many of us!!!