Hi Everybody,

When I last bloged I was talking about our two referrals:  Yamile and Jorge and another brother and sister.  After much prayer and discussion with family and friends. We decided on Jorge and Yamile. It seemed like they were being sent to us. More than a few people said this is a sign from God (Go Heather, Jim and Lee).  All these months of looking at their pictures really impacted us. We felt close to them.

Jim and I definitely believe that God has a plan for us as a fmaily. It frequently is different from the plans that we create. His plans are always so much fuller than ours, more substantial. We believe that Jorge & Yamile are part of God’s paln for us : ) 

 We then set out to finish our dossier. We discovered that the man who processes the divorce decrees in Chicago was fired for not doing his job and that was why we had not recieved it yet. We received an apology and the decree a week later. We then found out that the FBI had not complete our finger prints we submitted the wrong kind of check, two weeks later we received that.

We then called our psychologist who told us that she was on vacation and had not completed our evaluation. Now please understand. We first saw her in January and this was then end of March. Also for Colombia all you need is a three page report. As a psychologist I know that it could have been completed in a few hours. We called her two weeks later and found out that she sent our test results to the wrong people and still did not have a report (first week of April).  - What an odd series of events huh!

During the first week of April we received some really good news. The orphanage had recieved our letter of intent to adopt the kids and we were approved. Also our case manager had found some one to complete our psychological evaluation for a very small some of money. Isn’t God and the power of prayer amazing.

Peace,

Gina