Where we are....

We've been getting the "where are you in the process" question quite a bit, so I'd like to answer that here. Our dossier is done and is with our agency. We are still waiting on our Home Study though, this has taken much longer than it should have and is getting frustrating. The reason it has taken this long has been affected by both factors in our control and factors outside of our control. Our part is done and now we just have to wait for it, this is hard and only the beginning of our waiting. Once we have our HS done, then we can send it along to our agency to have it translated, we can apply for US permission for our boys to come to the states, this is called the I600A form, and then we can also apply for interest free loans and grants. Once our dossier is in Haiti I will be able to breath a little better. It will go into what's called IBESR. It's kind of like a Dept. of family and children's services...this has been closed for a while because they want to get the backlogged cases sorted through before they move forward. Our hope and prayer is that our dossier will be translated and sent down to Haiti before they reopen in early August, and will be in the pile and get processed through quickly. This is scary and time is not on our side but we are still trusting in God's perfect timing, no matter how outside our personal timeline that may be. We miss our boys terribly...a hole is felt in this house as long as they are still not here to fill it. Melat has told us that she will do any paperwork we need or help us get money so the boys can come home:) The next time we will be able to travel to Haiti will be for court that we will need to be present for. This won't be until early 2013, or later. We are thankful for pictures, videos and Skype until then. Oh and some great news is that Guerlens is walking! He started 11 days after we left Haiti..I was praying he would take those first steps when we were there but he saved them for later. We Skyped so we could see him walk and of course he had absolutely no interest in walking but wanted to be held instead...true to form.:)