We are a family of five: living, loving and growing together! Family, Adoption and God are what we are all about! We are blessed to be on this journey together and hope you enjoy hanging out with us!
We had a great day in adoption land yesterday! We not only found out the papers needed came much faster than anticipated but we got NEW pictures that were taken within the last week!! We had NO idea we would get something like this.
Oh, so exciting, yet hard to "see" him and hold in the desire to hop on the next plane to Thailand! The last pic we had was from a year ago and, of course, we think he is adorable. Taller but still very thin.
I wish we could share a pic of our new son, however we have signed papers saying we will not share his picture, specifically on the internet, until he is officially ours!
More tomorrow--kids are gone to Grandparents so Papa and I can do more sorting and cleaning! I need to work fast!!
We heard on Friday the Thai SW will work to get the necessary documents to submit to USCIS in Thailand for us. Unfortunately, the documents will need to be sent to the US/our agency and then back to Thailand but that seems par for the course at this point.
We, of course, have no timetable for the wait. Still.
On another note, we have some friends on a cruise of Asia right now. I received an email today saying they are in Vietnam and she says it is "very hot and hot and hot"!! There is not breeze and high humidity. The crazy part is they will be in Bangkok on Tues and Wednesday. We actually thought we would end up being able to be there at the same time! These sweet friends live in IL so it will be some time before they meet our new son. They were also the first to meet our Bug as they met Papa at the airport when we picked up Bug. It would have been very special to meet them in Thailand.
My sweet friend was actually silly enough to ask me in the email if there was anything I wanted her to pick up while she was in Thailand. LOL
Next week, Wed. is the soonest we will have any contact/update from our agency. The tough thing is that will mean we won't be able to get any response back until Thursday Thailand time due to the time difference.
So really, in English, we will be lucky to get one question answered this next week. The most we seem to be getting each week is 1.
Our agency does consider there benefits of our being physically in Thailand to deal with these "issues" however they say we need to be prepared to "possibly" be in country for 2 months!!
Where is the *shock* emoticon when you need it!! ;))
This is truly starting to wear on my soul.....
Please pray for a miracle in the paperwork process.
I would like to introduce you to a friend I have had the privilege to make in this blogging world. Sarah and her husband have been through some very tough times in the past few weeks in their journey to become parents. It is one Papa and I understand very well.
My heart just aches for them. I can't wait until the day I get to see a picture of Sarah holding her child. Having walked the road they are walking right now, I can say that it WILL happen. God knows their child, the timing just isn't right for THEIR child to be placed in their arms.
Please stop over at Bunches of Burches, keep them in your prayers and leave them a comment of support. It is an incredible feeling to know there are others out there sharing in your journey! ( for that matter you could leave me a comment, too!! lol)
Also, check out the calender on the side of my blog they are selling to raise funds! Very cute!!
The orphanage where our son lives has a wishlist for items they need. We, by no means, have to do this, however, we would like very much to be able to take a suitcase FULL of items to donate to them. They have cared for our son since he was 10 days old. He isn't too far from double digits now, so this has been his home for a long time. We would like to provide for some of the over 300 children that are waiting for their forever families in his orphanage alone.
We need YOUR help to fill the suitcase!
I have listed the items off their list below and would love to share our address with you if you are interested in helping. We have made this a service project for our children in the past when we have done similiar projects! They love to go with to help pick out the items and pack them up! If you would prefer to make a donation and we do the shopping that is fine, too. (More money can go to buying items without shipping costs.) I again, would provide our address to save on the Paypal fee or you can make a donation through Paypal. Please specify it is for the suitcase donations. Please leave me a comment!!
We also hope to take cookies or cupcakes when we are there for a party for the kids! They have sports items listed like soccer balls, basket balls, plastic bats and balls, etc....that we hope to purchase there and take with us.
Fun things to think about while we deal with this dreadful wait and uncertainty!!
Thank you for helping this orphanage provide for these little ones! God bless you~
M
Pencils, pens, texta colors, crayons, pencil sharpeners, rulers, paints and paint brushes, palletes, colored paper for collage, sticky tape, coloring in books, Baby shampoo, soap, baby talcum powder, heat-rash powder, toothpaste, toothbrushes, nail brushes, hair brushes, sun block, babies bottles, Dettol, bandaids, cotton wool, antiseptic creams and swabs, bandages (all types), saline, tweezers, eye wash cups, aloe vera gel, aeroguard or Rid, wool or cotton blankets
There seems to be a strong possibility that we will need to go to Thailand to solve the problems we are experiencing to bring our son home. We would be traveling with an unknown time for returning to the states.
We need HUGE prayers for this situation as this would obviously increase our costs. Plus many other considerations: Would we take the kids with us? How would we leave them with family and not know how long we could be gone? That would add 2 more plane tickets--YIKES. Papa would need to be home to go back to work. How would I fare in a city on my own with 3 kids where I don't speak the language? I suppose munchkin #3 could do the talking! ;)) I MUST keep my sense of humor or I will completely lose it. I am shaking inside at the thoughts of all these things.
If only we were independently wealthy--I would take the whole family, go do what we needed to do, go down the beach in Thailand and stay there until the Embassy has it all worked out! I hear a beach vacation is a great way for the new family to bond together in the child's country and very inexpensive--like $30 a night at a resort right on the beach! We could count it as a field trip for school and all is good!!!!!!!
That is the temp expected today (Wed in Thailand) where our sweet son is currently living. And it was a balmy 42* when my kids went outside today to run around the circle for gym! Our temp was unseasonably warm, too!
I am a God-loving Mama married to a guitar playing Papa for 16 years! We are raising 3, almost 4, life-loving kiddos: Peanut is a feisty and sweet 12 year old who loves God and her family. Jet is a funny, happy 12 year old who thinks adoption rocks. Bug is a mischievous and humorous 10 year old who closely resembles Linus. #4 kiddo is still in Thailand, waiting for his forever family. I love my family, reading books, sunny weather, friends, home schooling, blogging, adoption, children, marriage, animals, praying, Chinese, Korean and Thai food, hot cocoa in the winter and pink lemonade in the summer! Thanks for sharing in our life as we travel the adoption journey to our 4th child!
