When it RAINS it POURS!!!!

We have all heard that phrase...  and typically when someone tosses this out it's not for a good reason... Typically it's being used because life is throwing too many difficult or laboring things in our path...  I am using this phrase tonight because, in the last week...  in all of it's highs and lows... God has been raining down blessings ...  and blessings..... and blessings...  pouring them down on us!!!  So tonight, I'm choosing to use this phrase for good! 

Sunday was my adoption shower... titled "Princess Party"...  OH MY GOSH...  it was so awesome...  so much love, joy, fellowship, laughter, tears, gifts, blessings, friends, family, kids...  it was AMAZING....   We had two car loads of gifts and an abundance of gift cards and cash to tuck away....  SO... "when it rains it pours"...  BLESSINGS!  I will never forget that day .... I will never forget the kind words... the hugs... the tears...  the excitment that was overwhelming !!!  I finally.... at 41 1/2 years old... I had my baby shower!!!!

THEN...  we find out that Neffy's passport is ready...  after some confusion and upset over a list of documents we were told that each girls file still needed...  a long talk with our agency cleared up some of our intense fears...  it's not as bad as we thought...  We are hopeful and prayerful that Sheldine's passport will come any day now...  and that the couple of standard doucments that are still needed will come quickly too...

So I leave you with this......

When it rains it pours!  Thank You Jesus! 

*** sigh ***

Another week gone... No passports! 

Not sure how much more this Papa and Mamma can take...  we are feeling so lost... clinging to the slight bit of rope we have left...  praying that God will move whatever mountain is in the way and bring this family together, once and for all!  We are holding on to the promise that God gave us over three years ago that adopting from Haiti was exactly how He planned for Darren and I to have children... we know this in our heads... and in our hearts...   This family WILL come together... our girls WILL come home...  Father help us hold on!

So...  Update...

I spoke to our adoption agency on Thursday evening... no real answers...no movement in our process...  We still wait to have Sheldine & Nephtalie's passports issued...  They were applied for on Jan 3rd...  so we wait...