Thank you very much for your response and review of my predicament!
I was sending the payments to hashflare.io and read that their 3rd party BTC processor had a 120 minute window which I definitely did not meet and was not necessarily my fault.......but what happens now? Sounds like with hope, they'll accept the delays and provide a refund or process the 2 payments into a larger one? Or I made a donation which is rather more than I can afford at this point.
I do have a written request submitted via their ticket process for a review of what happened but wasn't sure how the technicalities mattered. So thank you for the clarification!
The 120 minutes is probably a standard message kind of thing.
Something similar to these:
"It can take up to 120 minutes for you to be credited......"
"Your Purchase is pending, please allow up to 120 minutes for confirmation .....".
hashflare.io is aware of the congested network, so everything should be fine.