Just saw our son!!!!

We finally got to Skype with Andy and ask if he would like to join our family!  I cannot believe how nervous both Dave and I were!  We were almost speechless!  But Andy was such a good sport and his smile makes everything better.  He had the cutest little shy grin when we told him that we wanted to adopt him.  It is a picture that I will never forget.  I will try to post the video of our Skype conversation, despite how embarrassing we were.  I was so glad to see Andy again.  I am in love. :)

Quick Update.

We have been working on preparing our dossier which we need to give to the Haitian government.  We have found an agency on the Cape to do our home study and we hope that will be scheduled within the next few weeks.  The social worker said that she was going to visit our home just to make sure it is a safe place and that it is furnished.  We close on the purchase of our new home and the social worker will be visiting just a couple weeks after that!  How is it going to be furnished in that amount of time!  We don't even own enough furniture to fill the place!  We will do our best but we hope they understand that we will have just moved in.

We have tried several times to Skype with Andy to tell him the news but there have been electrical and technology issues in Haiti.  We are scheduled to skype tonight at 8:40 pm Haiti time.  We pray that we get to see our little boy!

Are we nuts?

Do we know what we are getting ourselves into?  Nope.  Do we know this is what God wants us to do? Yup. Without a doubt.  I have never felt this way about any big decision I have had to make.  Don't get me wrong, I have many questions and concerns but no doubts about going forward.


Questions that are flying around in my head:
- How the heck are we going to afford this? (probably $15,000 to get Andy here) not to mention we will    have to think about college in less than 7 years 
- How do we raise a 11 year old......who doesn't speak English and is coming from another culture.
- How can we make Andy a part of our home and make him understand that he is family now while at the same time allow him to feel like he is still a part of his home in Haiti as well?
- How will Andy and Annabelle get along?  Will Annabelle beat him up?
- Should we or when will we have another biological child?
- How patient are we going to have to be in this whole process?  Andy is just getting older!!


Despite all of these questions I know that Andy is meant to be our son.  I cannot explain to you the confidence that God has given us. We have seen God's involvement in the process so far and I know He will be right by our side as we continue. 


Answers that I have about this journey:
- God is Good and He is in control of this.
- I am learning patience already
- Annabelle is already calling Andy his brother (well sometimes she calls him her sister :)
- CVS gives me some money for adoption!  
- Our family and friends are so supportive


We are excited to skype with Andy within the next few days to ask him to join our family!  We will update soon!

Here we go!

Tonight I heard the news, "You are approved". This was not regarding our mortgage application.  This was regarding our adoption application.  That's right. Dave and I are adopting from Haiti.  Within the next couple years (we pray) there will be a new addition to our family.  Our son's name is Andy Zephir.  He is an amazing 10 year old boy from Port-Au-Prince who we met during a work trip to an orphanage in March.  We are overjoyed and honored to have this blessing in our life.  The waiting will be torturous but the reward will be great.  Dave and I will be updating this blog as we continue through the journey.