Hope you all had a great Easter! I have always just loved Easter for all of the obvious reasons...hope, life, salvation! (Notice a distinct lack of eggs and chocolate bunnies...though I have to admit that I do appreciate those in their own context... :-)) This Easter was particularly special for us. Easter is Catrina's favorite holiday, so that alone had her on our minds alot. Then we had some friends bring their sweet little girl home from Haiti on Friday night (a Good Friday indeed...) and we were invited to meet them at the airport to help welcome her to the US. What a beautiful experience! It was such a blessing to be a part of this, and while at the airport the new father took the opportunity to reflet on his own correlations between the beauty of the Easter story, particularly pertaining to adoption. Basically, Christ's death and resurrection happened so that we can be adopted into God's family. What a perfect opportunity to celebrate adoption! Then as has become almost second nature to us these days, we find ourselves musing at each family get together that maybe this will be the last time we celebrate Easter without Catrina.
So specifically pertaining to our adoption, we are wrapping up the loose ends of our dossier (the formal application to Haiti to adopt Catrina)...for real this time, we hope! :-) We got the first draft of our Psych Evals last week, so now we are waiting on the final notarized copy. Once we get that I'll be road-tripping to Columbia to get some of the major parts signed by the Secretary of State and either this weekend or next weekend, we'll be road-tripping to Atlanta to get the whole packet authorized at the Haitian Consule. Few additional things that are in the works and will need to be completed before this are the final transaltions of all of our documents, my letter of recommendation from my doctor, and our 2011 tax return. We will welcome any and all prayers specifically concerning all of this. It seems like a lot of loose ends to tye up, but in reality compared to what has already been done, this is small potatoes...especially for God!
I officially have tickets to leave May 7 (hence the title...) to take our dossier to our lawyer and visit Catrina. I'll be there through May 15. Saddly Eddie can't make this trip, so ya'll give him a call of encouragement during that time if you can. :-)
In less exciting news, I heard from a friend of mine that the IBESR has absolutely refused to take some other couples dossiers if they do not meet certain criteria. Criteria that we are a little in the gray area on. Please also be in prayer in the upcoming weeks that the IBESR will not only accept our dossier, but that it will process with God-speed. And we'll give Him the glory!
Again, hope you all had a blessed Easter!
been there done that and I will certainly be praying for your trip through IBESR
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