Absolutely Fantastic News!

We have had great news this week!

Our paperwork has cleared IBESR and we got a presidential dispensation! We are so excited. After months of waiting this is the best news! Our paperwork only took about 6 months to get through both of the offices. That's a real answer to prayer, so, if you're one of the people praying for our adoption, "Thank You!"

We started our Canadian paperwork in March of 2011, so it feels like we have been at this forever, but the end is in sight.

Next steps?

Sit back, smile, hug ourselves and say, "This is really happening." (Up until this week, I wasn't sure).

Pray that our paperwork keeps up the good pace through all the offices it needs to travel through. We still need our paperwork to clear about seven more desks, and it could take as little as six months, or ..... let's not talk about the or...

Travel to Haiti to meet the girls. It looks like we could go as soon as December. (insert extra big smiley face here) While we're there we'll be evaluated by a social worker to see if they think we can bond. I wonder how you act in front of a social worker from another culture to show your bonding abilities?

Look for a very short term part-time job for myself. If we travel to Haiti in December to meet the girls, I should have at least 5 months before they come home that I can work an extra job to help pay for adoption costs.  If anyone knows of a part time job in/around Brantford/Ancaster/Hamilton, I'd have about 20 hours a week that I can work. I'm sure my current boss will give me a great reference :)   (Steve thinks he's my boss)

Try to learn Creole so we can talk to our girls when they come home.

Most importantly?  Pray for these two little beauties!!

I can't even begin to imagine how it would feel to be in an orphanage, have some people you don't know come to hang out with you for two weeks, be told they're you're new parents, then they leave, for about six months. Pray for their hearts, that deep within their little selves will be a feeling of belonging and hope that will be a life long anchor for them. Pray that they'll feel loved. Pray for their transition to Canada. Pray for us, that we'll know how to be good parents to these gifts.  

We hope you'll join in our happy dance with us!