The package (my urgent passport renewal application) has landed in the United Kingdom and at 9.13 London time it was delivered to the New Zealand Passport Office. Thank you FedEx!
So we have gained HALF a day. I just spoke to a lovely New Zealand girl in London and they are going to try and get the passport out their door by this afternoon. It was only at the end of the phone call that she realised that the wedding was THIS Saturday. Oh? Oh! she said as it dawned on her the urgency of the situation. Hearing her lovely New Zealand accent was a smile in itself.
What was also lovely was that when she checked with her associate to see if they needed anything, she called across her room “Do we need anything else for Cecilia’s passport?” They called me by my name. Isn’t that just gorgeous. So hopefully nothing goes awry and they will send it with NZ kisses straight back out the door this afternoon. Your magic is working! Like winged jugglers you are keeping my package aloft and moving.
It will be couriered by DHL across the sea and back to the USA and my girl in the NZ passport office will email me the tracking number. Maybe today. Maybe. Then we will wait again.
And we will wait without watching.
And maybe, just maybe.
I cannot say the words. They are too heavy. But just Maybe. As Senior Son Sam (who began his journey from New Zealand to Canada only hours ago) said “I have a good feeling”.
Eldest Son in Canada who will be married on Saturday whether I am there or not, thank goodness, is saying very little. I think he is holding his breath.
Good morning.
I made a haystack with all my excess energy yesterday. Sheila was very helpful. It is not a very good haystack, but it will do.
Have a lovely day. Lovely. Lovely. Lovely.
your friend, celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
67 responses to “Keep those balls in the air, magic is brewing!”
Fingers still crossed…beginning to cramp, but will keep on 🙂
Blue will have a long wait if he thinks he’s going for a ride in that truck….
You will have your passport with plenty time to space – promise!
🙂 Mandy xo
Sending wings to your fedex package!
My fingers, knees and toes may never uncross again, but, I have no intention of trying until that passport wings its way back to your tiny little hands,
Quick pop in – still saying my mantra over and over as I dash from pet sitting job to pet sitting job to gardening jobs:”Celia WILL go to the wedding”!!
I just know the magic will work, after we believe don’t we?!
Oh gosh. So many lovely moments the midst of such tension.
It will come. The time zones coming back are in your favor!! xxx
p.s. I thought that was a pig I saw hiding in the haystack.
That certainly was a pig. Sheila, she loves it. Naughty piggie I kept telling her. c
Best wishes!!!!
OMM Hope it arrive soon and some of these companies do deliver on holidays 🙂
Sending positive thoughts and energies Celi!!! xoxoxo
The first instalment of your wonderful news looks hopeful. Let’s hope they don’t drive your new passport to Timbuktoo before delivering it to Illinois! Legs and fingers still crossed for you and for us after a catastrophic morning!
Love,
ViV
Just got word that the girls in London have turned the passport around in record time and it is ALREADY on a courier going back to the airport! So we are looking hopefully/tentatively/sideways at the 6pm flight OUT on Friday.. c
Yippee!
Brilliant news!
Now when you get to this here wedding and dance with your son…. Please save a thought for all ‘us’uns’ as they say here in Northern Ireland, still stuck and unable to unlock our fingers, knees and toes! You might have to do a world tour to unlock us! 😉
Yay! Way to go!
Do you know the old saying if you pass a hay wagon? Make a wish and it will come true?
They are baling here, too….rolling and moving bales does count as a hay wagon, right? (Piggies seem to think so?)
We are all holding our breath with hope and faith.(She knew your name! It must have been lovely to hear a friendly voice)
Wishing onward.
Good luck with the passport. What’s the difference between and eldest son and a senior son? Are they twins by any chance?
They are a little over a year apart, Eldest Son is a wild child hot dog skier and Senior Son has always been Senior Son. He walks like the boss! c
It’ll get there, love. Weddings motivate women world ’round, and women are usually the backbone to logistics. It’s all about the logistics.
I love that comment! 🙂 That precious package is going to get there.