We are 25 sleeps away from stepping back on a plane and flying to Haiti to see our girls and we could not be more excited. We have 6 1/2 wonderful days to play, snuggle, bond and love on our daughters! My mom, sister and our dear friend Liz are all going with us this trip and that adds a special excitment! We are in the shopping and packing process! I am loving buying new clothes for my girls to take with us... this is the most amazing gift I've ever been given~ I love being their Mom.
On April 10, 2012 our Dossier was presented and accepted into IBESR-(Haiti Social Service Dept). This step for us is HUGE and should take no more than two months, if they stay true to their word. We have many steps after this one, but it's progress at this point~ we will take what we can get! We still have no idea when we will be making that final trip to Haiti to pick up our daughters and bring them home... but we know God's timing is still perfect... so we wait!
On Sunday April 22, 2012~ Darren was given the awesome opportunity to share his testimony (our testimony) about our adoption with the congretation at the Celebration Center in Fort Fairfield. What an amazingly beautiful testimony my husband gave. I could not have been more proud of him. It was such a God thing for Darren to do this... you see, public speaking is NOT his comfort zone. This sharing of our adoption story/journey was simply direct obedience to what the Lord had placed on Darren's heart. The congretation at CC embraced us in such a special way and made us feel so welcome and supported. They prayed over us and took up a love offering- that totaled a staggering amount that still has us in awe. God does things like that though... He gives and goes beyond ......
News from Angie the missionary at Maison today... Neffy is struggling with boundaries in school and Angie is asking us to be praying for her. Sheldine is doing great in pre-k. I guess this is the beginning of worrying about our kids.... extra prayers... wanting to make things better for them... It's so hard to be so far away from her... maybe she just needs her Mamma & Pappa.
Yippee! You're adopting!! You're adopting from an incredibly corrupt country with a barely functioning government so the $30-40k you're spending to adopt will likely be paying for the corruption/human trafficking to continue!! You must be thrilled!!
ReplyDeleteThere are all kinds of mommas who have adopted from Haiti, like:
Corey: adopted several kiddos from Haiti, most of whom have rad. Lil Daniel sexually assaulted his sisters for months (and Corey didnt notice! She basically allowed it!!) and he has been in a residential treatment center since 2008 and has shown no remorse. She shipped vivi off to boarding school for being too dangerous to have at home and blogs all about it at watchingthewaters.com
Lindsay adopted a bunch of kiddie with rad from Haiti -- the oldest girl repeated tried to commit suicide, physically assaulted her amom and attempted to sexually assault a young boy (shed just turned 18 and was merrily "sexting" him provocative pics of herself). She got kicked out of 9 psych hospitals last year and is still involuntarily committed. Indefinitely. She brags about it (and a whole bunch of odd and unproven "therapeutic parenting" techniques that likely make her kids much worse (no Easter egg hunts ever!! Only homeschooling since one of the lil adopted kids stole a kindergarten classmates lunch!! Lindsay had to remove her precious lil kid from this horrible influence!!): homeasasoftplacetofall.blogspot.com
Ps I'm thinking the troubles may be karmic payback. Support human trafficking, have your newly adopted thanks to trafficking kiddos wreck your and their and their siblings lives!!