A Little Update On Mia

I received an email a few days ago that Mia got scabies again (she has gotten it many times in the past few months and I have been told she gets it pretty bad), so they had to cut her hair because it got on her scalp. You can see in her picture her hair is short like a boy, but I still see my beautiful little girl!! If you look on her face, specifically above her lips, you can see where the scabies is still trying to go away. They have a medication cream to put on them to make the scabies go away. What is so hard for me is seeing her with the scabies and knowing she is in pain and itching all the time and I am all the way in Colorado and cannot do anything to comfort her. I know the nannies are taking good care of her, but it is not the same as a mama's love :) I just can't wait until she is home and never gets scabies again. Scabies is passed very easily from skin contact and very few people in the United States ever get it, so once she is home, it would be unlikely she would get it again.



As you can see from Wadner's picture, he looks like he is having a great time!! I really miss his smile; it can light up a room!

Hurricane Update

There is an adoptive mom in Haiti right now (hopefully bringing her daughter home with her soon!) and she sent a post to our chat group that the hurricane did not cause any damage there. She was there when it hit. This is a huge relief to me, although I will feel much better once I am holding my babies in my arms seeing for myself that they are okay :) Thanks to all those who prayed with me!!!!

Please Pray With Me

Since I live in Colorado, they don't talk much about the hurricane's on the news. I have been doing my best to find information online, plus to ask my mom for updates since she lives in Florida. I am a little concerned at how close Hurricane Dean is going to be to Haiti. From what I can tell from the projected path I found online, it seems as if it will be going south of Haiti, with the outer-bands of wind and rain hitting the southern part of Haiti. This is very close to Port-au-Prince, where my precious children are, along with other adoptive parents children. Please just take a moment to say a prayer that all of our children will be safe and all of the people of Haiti will be safe and not badly affected by Hurricane Dean. It is very hard for me to know this type of thing is going on and I can't be there to protect Wadner and Mia. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.

Nothing New To Report

I have not posted in a while because I have not received any new information or pictures. There have been a few people who have gotten out of IBESR (Haiti Social Services) in 4 months, which is much better than it used to be. September 10 will be 4 months for us, so we are praying we are out by then, or maybe even before that!

I can say that I desperately miss my children. Now that I have gotten a taste of what it is like to hold them, it is so hard to not have them home with me. My heart hurts sometimes just thinking about all this time I still have to go without them. Now, don't get me wrong, I love my life and I love my husband, but when I was with my children, I knew they were the one thing I was missing in my life. I smile thinking about the cute things they did on our trip; the little smiles they gave us, Mia singing before bedtime, Wadner being silly to make us laugh. I just cannot wait until we get to experience those things everyday. I continue to pray the wait is not as long as we think and they are home sooner than expected. It does comfort me to know that God has a plan. A couple of weeks ago we had a guest speaker at church and he talked about how you make this plan for your life and then can get upset when things don't go the way you planned. He said, you have to remember that God is the one who made the plan for your life, and whether something good or bad is happening in your life, you must trust that God is taking care of things the way he sees fit. That in time, you will start to see all of the little things adding up to His big plan for you life. I have been really trying to trust that He is watching over my children and they will be home when the time is right (not that it makes the waiting much easier!!).