Sunday, January 26, 2014

Jesus Loves the Little Children

Time is passing so quickly but adoption time is going so slowly.   It has been 16 months that our paperwork has been in IBESR and it is hard not to be impatient.  WE know that everything is in God's hands and we pray to him daily for him to get the boys to us quickly.  Hopefully everything that stands between them and us will be parted like the Red Sea, and they can get to us before the end of this year.   We can only pray that we will have them by Christmas.

We did get to Skype today and we were showing them pictures of themselves that we are collecting in a photo album.  Cherdinor looked through them and told me who he was with in the pictures.  Every time he gets on camera he gives us that adorable smile and wave that would break any one's heart.  Davidson, like always, can't be still and keeps that thumb in his mouth.  He will talk with us, but he has that mischievous grin that lets you know he is a stinker and that he is thinking of messing with the computer.  They are going to be a lot of fun when we get them here.

Our oldest daughter, Darby, has started back to college and even though we see her occasionally because the college is close by, we still miss her being at home.  High school soccer is about to start for Wilson and our youngest daughter, Madelyn, is playing high school basketball right now.  There is always a ballgame going on somewhere.  Our gospel meeting started this week so that will keep us preoccupied this week.

I teach a 3rd and 4th grade Bible class on Wednesday night.   They are wonderful kids.  We have been working on teaching them a Haitian Creole song.   They have been working on it for about a month and I recorded them singing this song and posted it for a Missionary in Haiti we support.  Her name is Roberta Edwards and she runs Son Light Children's Home in Port-au-Prince.  I am going to post that song here for everyone who is following our adoption.  I think it is important for as many people to know a little bit about our boys' culture as they can before they get here to try to make the transition a little easier.  These children will be just a little older than our boys but they will still go to church with them.


Hopefully, the next time I post it will be about exiting IBESR or about signed dispensations so we can get into the court system.   That is what we are praying.