A clarifying update

Well, you all probably thought I had gone a little crazy, huh?  I was trying to get so much done in a short time, I simply forgot to post some things in the blog.  Several of you have sort of "reminded" me to be a bit more specific.  THANK YOU!! 

I looked at the blog and i can't believe so many things were messed up... the font...how did it change?  No idea.  And although I had mentioned in our emails, I didn't post on the blog that the "surprise" party was for us, for our 50th wedding anniversary.  (It isn't till next month, but we will be stateside, so our good friends planned ahead and set it up as a surprise).  We really do work with some wonderful, thoughtful people.

And our meeting with the case worker and the lawyer concerning the adoption went so well.  They both reviewed what papers we had, and let us know what else we would need, which helps a lot.  The other neat thing is that our case worker and our lawyer are sister and brother.  And both Christians, and both so very nice.  We are working on getting what we need, but we were told that once we get all things together (including all the paperwork needed from Canada from her adoptive parents) things should progress very quickly.  This because it is a family adoption.  Guerline (adoptive mom) is the biological aunt of Savanah.  The baby's birth mom is Guerline's sister.  

We did find out we needed to have a psychological evaluation done on Savanah.  My first response???  How in the world can they do that with a 16 month old child?  It sounds like it isn't real involved.  They simply want to check more for emotional "scars" than anything else.  For instance, is the child responding to normal stimulus, is there unusual fear of people/things, that sort of thing.  The fun thing is, we have an appointment to see the doctor on Wednesday at 6 AM in town... have to leave here by 5:30 to get there.  This should be fun!  But we also found out today that 99% of the paperwork for Haiti has to be done here in Cap Haitian.  What a blessing that is for us.  I rather dreaded making several trips to Port with her.  The final paperwork will be done in Port.  

I don't know if you understand that this whole thing has been God led, God blessed and in God's timing.  God is keeping His arms around Savanah in this adoption.  There is no way we could have accomplish any of this in a timely way if the Lord were not in charge of it all.  

My focus on PRAISE and PRAYER has been showing up in so many ways lately.  God is really present in our lives in so many ways.  It's exciting to think what HE has in store next for us.  

We serve an AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME GOD, who is keeping His hands on our lives in so many ways!!!   

Till next time, may God's blessings be that evident in your lives as well as in ours!!