ONLY TWO MORE DAYS!!!!

Kristen and I leave in two days for Port Au Prince and I am positive I will forget something! Fortunately time has flown by in the past few weeks and the trip has come up on us fast. I'm afraid though, that it will pass by us fast too. I am already dreading having to leave the children there again, it is one of the worst feelings I have ever had. It wouldn't be normal to not have some drama leading up to our trip either. I called our Haiti program director (Jenny) yesterday to ask her a question and she asked me why Kristen hadn't called on her daily call to her yet. Seriously, the program director is a friend of Kristen's, but my wife really does call there every day and asks if she has heard of any news on our adoption. Rest easy everybody, it is not a call to Haiti, our director also lives here in MT, although my wife does call the Orphanage and talks to the teacher once, maybe twice....OK like four times a month! Anyway, I call down to Jenny and she says our dossier is on Mdm Beaudoin's, the IBESR director for those of who may not know, desk. So that is a good thing, right? Except for the fact that she isn't necessarily inclined to sign it right away because we are young (I'm 27 and Kristen is 26). Well the lawyer thinks it will just take some time, but Jenny thinks we should write a letter and tell her why even though we are young, we are good adopting parents and why we are adopting. So I got this letter written and it is getting translated this weekend and we are hoping to take it with us on Monday and to IBESR's office. I am not real optimistic that we can actually talk to Mdm Beaudoin, as it has been proven near impossible to do lately, but you know what....I'm praying and I know God is capable of ANYTHING and I am believing that we are going to take that letter to IBESR and we are going to see Mdm Beaudoin in person and she is going to sign our dossiers 14528 and 14529 (submitted on Jan. 16, 2007, my son Payton's 6th b-day) out! So thats that. Enough of that rambling. I am really excited to go. I left work early today and Kristen and the kids and I went shopping for all the things we need on the trip. I got the scale out and am making sure each bag is as close to the 50 lb. weight limit as it can be. If anyone is reading this and is adopting from Haiti, but hasn't been down there yet, all I can say is " What are you waiting for?!" It is an unbelievable place in more than one way. It will change your life guaranteed. It will make you so thankful for what you have and it will rip your heart out with compassion and sympathy for what those people go through. I will be blogging on the trip as much as I can remember to.
God Bless

Chad

Against All That Seems To Reason

Kristen and I are going to Haiti!!! After talking about it for a month and coming to terms that is going to be a longer wait than we thought, we booked our tickets to Haiti for the last week in July/first week in August. I now find myself in that mode of trying to distract myself from thinking about the trip. I am really excited to get down there again. It has been a long 8 months since our October trip. The worst part of it is having to leave our 3 children at home. I hate being away from them as much as I hate being away from our 2 in Haiti. When we tell those around us that we are going back over they kind of give us that look like, "Weren't you just there?" and, "Isn't that cost alot?" My reply is yes we were just there 8 months ago and yes it costs some money.....but 8 months is a really longgggggggg time to go without seing your children. Regardless of the fact they have not spent a single day in the USA with us or not and regardless of the fact they are adopted, God has given us a love for them just the same as the day we saw our children on that Ultrasound or the day they born. It just amazes me that they are ours even though we can't bring them home yet. As far as the cost of it all, I can live without some other extras if I can see my children, even if it is only for 4 or 5 days. God Bless and lets pray for all the people involved getting our children home!