Waiting

It has been a long time since I have posted and a lot that is due to how busy we are.  My three biological children keep me busy in the fall of the year.  My oldest daughter plays soccer for Freed-Hardeman University.  My son plays high school football at Chester County High School.  My youngest daughter is a high school soccer player at Chester County High School.  Each night of the week is usually a mad dash to a ball field somewhere in West Tennessee.  It is so enjoyable to watch our kids participate in sports but it does keep us on our toes.

Here are some pictures from our fall sports.

                                                                     DARBY

                                                           
                                                                        WILSON

                                                                      MADELYN

The main reason I have not posted is because I have no new news to report.  We continue to skype with our boys every two weeks in Haiti and this is a joy.   They gradually become more talkative with us, but it is hard for them since they do not know English well.  Today it has been exactly 14 months since our paperwork was handed over to IBESR with no movement that we know about.   WE assume that our paperwork is in dispensation waiting for the President's signature.  The new law is soon to be signed that will bring in Hague Adoptions in Haiti, and we do not know how that will affect us.  We know that we will not need dispensation under this new law.  Maybe our paperwork will be ready to leave IBESR then, but we are not sure.

So we wait....So we pray....and we will continue to skype with our boys.

Here are two pictures of the boys that we received in October from other adoptive families who have been taking pictures for all of us.

                                                              CHERDINOR  (on the right)

                                                                      DAVIDSON

We hope that you all will continue to pray with us that these boys will get to our family soon so we can continue to teach them about GOD and about how special they are in HIS eyes.   We will pray every day ourselves and we will wait.  I am gaining a new appreciation for this word,  wait.  Here are some of those feelings in poem form.

                                                           I WAIT

As a hind catcher poised on his toes with glove extended waits for the pitcher to make that perfect crisp snap of the ball in his leather glove,
enthusiastically, eagerly,
I wait.

As a farmer watches his tender plants while looking in the sky for any furtive cloud that might signal much needed rain,
longingly, uncontrollably,
I wait.

As a father stands by the side of his beautiful young wife for the birth of their first born child,
dutifully, exultantly,
I wait.

As a fisherman sits by the side of the water with pole in hand watching all day for his float to be pulled under water without success,
pensively, patiently,
I wait.

I am an adoptive parent who is waiting for his children to come home,
enthusiastically, eagerly, longingly, uncontrollably, dutifully, exultantly, pensively, patiently,
I wait.

R. Scott Miskelly