The best news EVER!

We might have our girls home by April!

Yes, you read that right!  April, just a few weeks from now, our girls at home!

Since September we've had plans to travel down and help at an orphanage (not the orphanage where our girls live) from March 7 - 14. William is 16 this year, so it's his turn for a Haiti trip. Because we met the girls in December, we were allowed to go and visit them. So we added on a short visit with them from March 14 - 19th.

Then we got a most MOST exciting call!  MOST EXCITING! The girls creche director thinks that their paperwork will be done by early April.

Yahoo! And time to get some serious work done. Bumping up our girls expected home day is a welcome surprise, but we were surprised. That's code for not ready!

So this week we've been happily painting their bedroom, buying some key clothing items, and smiling. A lot of smiling.

If I can work out the details I'm going to stay in Haiti with the girls until they can come home. I'd rather not do another big hard goodbye. I'm taking a maternity leave so, I'll just start it and stay with the girls there until they can come home.

Things to pray for?

We need a travel visa from the Canadian Embassy.

There is still some Haitian paperwork that needs to be done.

Pray that the early April home date really happens.

Pray that communication between the creche and ourselves would be quick over the next few days. I'd like to have as many details as possible worked out before we leave on March 7th.

I'd like to be given permission to stay at a friends house with the girls from March 19 until we bring the girls home. It would be much less chaotic than the creche, and I think it would be a great transition before we come home. It would also be much cheaper, and I'd love to save the guest house fees at the creche.

Pray that all the details work out nicely. That we can find a cheap flight for Steve to get back to Haiti, that there's room on a flight home for us (there are only 2 flights a week that go directly from Haiti to Canada, they shouldn't be full, but still, worth praying for).

Pray for the girls. This is one of the biggest things that will happen to them. They are leaving everything they are familiar with, to travel to a strange place, with people they barely know. I'm not wearing rose colored glasses about what this could look like, but I want their little hearts to be wrapped in love, peace and joy. I want them to feel safe and cared for. I want them to be okay.

I've got my rejoicing face ready to go. I can see the light at the end of this three year tunnel. We are so close.