President Martelly

President Martelly in a sling

This is the man who needs to sign our paperwork.  He is in the United States today in a hospital in Miami, Florida.  He is being treated for a blood clot in his lung--a pulmonary embolism, which if not treated can be fatal.  It was caused by his shoulder surgery, which he also had done in Miami, Florida.  Does taht tell you something about the medical care in Haiti?!  So while I am thrilled he is still alive, I'm perturbed by the fact that his hospital stay in Miami, Florida is going to delay the signing of lots of paperwork.  Oh, I forgot to mention that while he was away from his office busloads of  ex- soldiers stormed parliament grounds.  So I'm praying for a speedy recovery for President Martelly so he can get back and sign some paperwork!

Easter In Haiti

Julner has his arm over his eyes and Julena is looking at him.  Both are on the right side of picture.

It's so great to know that this year my Haitian Sensations get to experience
Easter for the first time (possibly).  Last year they were living in a tent city, malnourished, dirty.  This year they colored eggs, went to church, had an Easter egg hunt.  It's just proof that God  makes things new.  

Easter

Julena Easter 2012


Oh for the love of blogging.  I can not figure out how to rotate the picture so  I'm sorry you have to rotate your head.   


I love Easter.  It is so filled with HOPE.  Real HOPE.  I am so glad that my Haitian Sensations get to experience some of  the same things there as my children here.  


Do you ever have a week where it is filled with all the dark emotions life can throw at you?  
We had it this week.  The D week!
We started off the week with a phone call from a great friend who called off a wedding in three weeks from now.  We were all so upset we still don't know the reason why.  Devastated.  Next, we traveled to  West Virginia for Wade's Grandfather's funeral.  Death.  Paperwork stuck in Haitian  Judicial offices.  Disappointed.  A colleague who is 18 weeks along who got pregnant through fertility treatments to find out there is a genetic defect and she will miscarry any time in the next 2 weeks.  Desperate.   To today, a life long friend's mother died from cancer at the young age of 65.  Destroyed.


I reflect on all these D"s and am so thankful that I have a Savior who took all these D's to the cross for me.  And when he rose from the dead gave me:


Darkness=Light
Devastated= Rebuild
Death=Life
Disappointed=Satisfy
Desperate=Hopeful
Destroy= Restore


Yes when we have those  D weeks and because we are human we all get them.  We look to the one who has saved us with thanksgiving and hope, knowing that He is good.  We can be confident that one day we will not experience the D's again.  


So rejoice!  Be filled with Hope! God has saved us!!


Happy Easter!

Sam Turns 6

Oh where has time gone?  It seems like just yesterday I brought this handsome baby home--all 9lb 13 ozs.  Fast forward 6 years and we are at Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate his precious life.  And full of life he is.  

We had an Agent Perry party from Phineas and Ferb(Disney).  I think he is still living the fun that we had at Disney.  I made my first decorated sheet cake.  It took me 3 hours to ice it.  This is a tradition that I have carried on since my mother passed.  Every year on my birthday she would make me a cake and ice it.  It would take her lots of time and I now fully realize her efforts.  I miss those cakes to this day.  

the kids choose any cake they want and I go at it.  They get more challenging every year.

A fun time was had by all and thankfully Chuck E. Cheese was not crowded.

Some good news and pictures

Julner with a football

It makes my day when I got to check out Gods Littlest Angels Website and I see one our  kids.  Today I got to see the boys in 2 different pictures.  I love to see what they are doing.  It is getting close for the end of March update so I'm getting a little squirrely to see what has happened in a month's time.    We did get some good news about the President signing some dossiers from our orphanage.  8 out of 14.  We do not know if our dossier was signed, but  we did actually find out that he is still signing.  He signed 59 last week.  We pray that it continues to be at that pace or better.  So keep praying cause I am convinced that your prayers have helped!!  

Vindy is on the far right

Working

It's been some time since I last blogged.  My helpers and I have been refurbishing the Rainbow playset.  It is 6 years old and it was time for an update.  So we closed it down for a week of pressure washing, staining, and greasing. We took away the toddler swing :( and replaced it with a standing swing.  New ropes, new trapeze, new bell, megaphone, spotlight, and play phone.   We reopened it yesterday and all the neighborhood kids are back.  Jack, who wants to be a Disney Imagineer, is in charge of the new playset.    I have had an awesome case of laryngitis, which the kids love.  It is hard to be a Mom when you have no voice!  I think I have finally turned the corner-maybe.  Hoping for some rain tonight to knock down the worst pollen year in history.

Slight Update

  We got another update on from orphanage director.  It is what it is- PRESIDENTIAL DISPENSATIONS: I am trying to find out why 13 dossiers were given dispensations out of several hundred.  Dispensations are not individually sent to the President’s office.  They are sent in batches of 6 to 12 attached together.  If for some reason, such as a health issue, one child in the batch is “fast tracked” then all of them in that bunch are signed.  The Presidential dispensation office is notorious for working on dossiers out of order received.  No GLA children were in that batch and I am doing my best to find out if dispensations are being signed, why the oldest ones aren’t first, and why this batch was signed.  Will let everyone know as son as I find out something.


There are 15 families waiting in our orphanage.  Some have been waiting for 3 plus months.  So we sit and wait.  There still is no prime minister either. 
God was extremely gracious to me last night through a dream.  I have been talking awhile about how I just want to tough my new additions.  Well last night in my dream I met them all, hugged them all, and toured the beautiful orphanage.  It was very real.  It still gives me goose bumps to think about it.  I am sure it was God's way to encourage me through the waiting.  He is good all the time!!