It has been a long, and over-joyously overwhelming week this week. I feel like I have lived a full life just in the past 5 days!!
Monday February 29 2016, at 8:36am....
....a moment I have been waiting 13 months, 1 week and 6 days for finally came: Johan and I received our decision. !!! And I want to log every glorious, manic moment of this whole past week so that I can release it from my cluttered mind and revisit it when I am ready.
Earlier that morning...
The day started just like every other day of the previous several weeks: I woke up early (4:30am), picked up my phone, and scanned it for any signs of Johan screaming at me that we received the decision! (We had always assumed he would get an email or phone call at the same time as I would.) But, just like every other morning, there was nothing. Just a couple SnapChats and a few "I love you's". My heart sank - just as it always would - that we didn't get any news; and I fell into the usual disappointment. I then scanned my phone and checked up on the 33 Facebook notifications I had, taking screenshots of all the decisions and interview email updates from the "I väntan på familjen" Facebook group so I could update the spreadsheet later in the morning when I logged onto work.
I waited for the clock to run down until I knew Johan could talk, and then I called him to say good morning. I still had hope that maybe he had good news but was waiting to share with me when I woke up. But - again - he did not.
"Still nothing?" I asked him.
"Well, I have good news and bad news." He said. "The bad news is that we don't have a decision yet. The good news is that I called Örebro again today and talked to the team leader. She said that while she cannot tell us what day, she told us we would definitely be getting our decision this week."
