The Miskellys' Haitian Adoption Journey: Merry Christmas - 2014 and Happy New Year

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Merry Christmas - 2014 and Happy New Year - 2015

Merry Christmas everyone. At the end of this year we are excited to know that we are getting even closer to bringing the boys home from Haiti. We were originally hoping in the summer that we might have them for Christmas, but I told Christy that it was only a small chance. We had a wonderful Christmas with our children here in the US, and God has blessed us with health, peace, and joy.   We still have that place in our heart that is missing, by not having our whole family here and our family not being complete. This wait can sometimes make you a little crazy. We again must leave this in God's time and in God's plan for us.

The latest update from the beginning of December was that we are waiting for Davidson's abandonment paperwork to be signed by the Mayor of Port-au-Prince, and Cherdinor had his court date on December 12, 2014 for his parents to come and sign them over to us. We still do not know how that went. I guess no news is good news. Once they get our of the court system they will have our names, and they will officially be Cherdinor Joseph Miskelly and Davidson Jean Francois Miskelly.   Then we will just need passports, visas and I-600 approval on the American side. We sent our extension in on our I-600 at the beginning of December and like everything else, we haven't heard from it either. I am optimistic that January will see some movement at multiple areas.

I wanted to post some good pictures of our past year with our Haitian boys from our two bonding trips and from our American kids over Christmas. We do have fun. It is going to be difficult for the boys as they come to the US hopefully in 2015 but our joy and love for God will see them through and help them adjust to their happy, forever home.

                                The theme of this photo gallery is "Smiles" (or almost)

Finally, here is the orphanages Christmas song for 2014. It is on someone else's you tube account so I hope he never takes it off so it will stay a part of this blog. We hope that this next year is going to be AWESOME!!!!!!!

Cherdinor is in the orange shirt to your left, and Davidson is front row, white shirt, sucking his thumb.

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Miskellys' Adoption Journey Timeline

01/06/07 - Baby Paul born

04/02/07 - First ever home study

06/05/07 - Entire completed and translated dossier arrives in Haiti

06/28/07 - Baby Paul's physical and he is healthy

06/30/07 - Baby Paul has been sick and getting worse

07/01/07 - Baby Paul dies

Long Pause for almost three years as we mourn and contemplate trying again.

03/10 - Met the first Davidson and family decided to try adopting a child again

03/11 - continue to work with grandmother trying to adopt him

07/11 -Grandmother finally agrees to proceed with adoption

08/08/11 - New home study done

09/11 - Pretty much completed Dossier

09/11 - Signed agreement with His Home for Children to do the adoption.

09/22/11 - First fingerprinting done

09/23/11 - Recieved I-171, approval to adopt children

03/12 - Grandmother finally refuses to let us adopt the first Davidson and moved on to other options

05/12/12 - Tell Chris Nungester at HIS Home for Children to find us a child placing this in God's hands. She chose a boy named of all things "Davidson".

07/26/12 - Dossier arrived in Haiti and ready for Minister of Foreign Affairs to legalize the paperwork

08/23/12 - Due to new law changes in Haiti we were asked about taking a beautiful, sweet boy named Cherdinor to go with Davidson

09/15/12 - Paper sent to IBESR (institute du Bien-Etre Social et Recherches - Institute of Social Well-Being and Research)

12/04/12 - Updated home study

01/18/13- Updated fingerprinting

06/01/13 - Met the boys for the first time Face to Face.

05/06/14 - Updated fingerprinting

05/29/14 - Travelled to Haiti for mission trip and for first bonding trip with the boys and spent 3 days in hotel with them.

07/16/14 - Received notification from lawyer that we are out of IBESR and that she has dossiers in hand and will move them to the court system this month.

09/12/14 - 09/16/14 - Went to Haiti for our second bonding trip and spent 4 days in hotel with our boys.

09/15/14 - Had embassy appointment to file our I600.

09/30/14 - Cherdinor moved to the boys home to start his first day of school.

10/15/14 - Cherdinor's parents go to American Embassy to give away their rights. We learn more detail about his family.

03/22/15 - We spent a day with CJ and Davidson at our guest house in Port-au-Prince. Loved the play day. We were in Haiti on medical mission trip.

07/15/15 - Updated home study one more time to get our fingerprints updated. They would not do this without a new home study since Wilson has turned 18.

08/25/15 - Finally out of Haitian court system and we have moved into MOI. We have our official Adoption Decree and their names have been changed with the last name of Miskelly. THEY ARE OURS IN THE EYES OF HAITI.

09/01/15 - Davidson moved over to boys home with CJ and they will be together until we bring them home. They are learning English at American run school.

10/04/15 - Learned that our paperwork would have to be converted from a simple adoption to a pleniere or full adoption. This is the first time in Haiti they have required this law to be followed that was passed in 2013. This will affect several families who are almost finished to turn around and make corrections.