COLLIN IS COMING HOME IN 4-8 WEEKS!! We got our PGN approval yesterday. This is very big news!
Wyatt, Peyton, Brylie and I went to Alum Creek yesterday to beat the heat for the day. On our way home I checked my phone and saw that I had a call from our adoption agency. Normally I would have been very excited but we just got another new coordinator and I assumed it was her calling to introduce herself. I retrieved the message and it was our old coordinator calling to tell us that she had one last duty to take care of before she left and it was to tell us we have PGN approval.
I cannot begin to tell you what a relief this is. PGN is the land of the unknown. It is the place where everything can get screwed up. It is the place where you are at the mercy of some unknown persons mood-and we all know that's not good. No one can really give you an estimate of how long it is going to take. You are in limbo and so is your baby! Some people are stuck there for months and months. They get kick out after kick out for stupid reasons while their kids get older and more attached to their foster families. But we are OUT!!!!
As always we have to remain cautiously optimistic. After PGN approval the final adoption decree has to be signed by the birth mother. It is the last opportunity for her to change her mind. Fortunately, that rarely happens. I am more concerned that it will take her a long time to get to the city to get it signed but our attorney has a great track record of having them signed within a week of approval, sometimes the same day. He also has a reputation for not updating us in a timely manner so we could be suffering with that thought for a while. When we get that notification-that is when the real excitement can begin. I don't know that the true reality will set in until we have him on the airplane and we are back in the US. I may have to kiss the ground in Miami!!YUCK!
The really funny thing is that my mom and I are going down to visit 8/30 to 9/6. The end of that trip will be the 4 week mark. Needless to say I am hoping that our visit trip will coincide with the pick-up trip. I can take my mom to the airport to send her home and pick up Wyatt to take care of business in Guatemala and then we can go home as a family!!! That would be perfect. But, if not it is okay. It will give Collin's foster family a few more days with him. I know that they will be very sad to see him go. It will be especially difficult on the granddaughter. We can understand their pain very well. It was so hard to meet him in May and have to leave him but he is so loved by so many people, here and in Guatemala. It is a really amazing thing that I hope he understands some day. I also hope that his birth mom knows how many people love him and that he is going to have a life full of love and opportunity.
Hopefully I will be posting very soon with a signed adoption decree and Collin will officially be a Wilson!!!
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Guatoberfest Cruise 2009
My soapbox about the Advent Conspiracy
I came across this video on another blog. I have to admit I only looked at it for entertainment value. I assumed with a title like that, it had to be some wacko conspiracy theory and who doesn't need a good laugh. Suprisingly enough it really touched me and made me think. It didn't grab my interest because of it's religious value, because that's not really my thing. I am not the type of person that flaunts religion or believes in pushing your beliefs onto others. It touched me because of it's human value and because it shows me how quickly I forget.
When we were in Guatemala it was truly a life changing experience for a myriad of reasons, only one of which was bringing home a baby! We saw poverty that we could never imagine in this country. I remember thinking when I was there that despite all of the stress of the situation, I was more at peace than I had ever felt in my life. Among other things, there was no pressure to have more...there was nothing to have. People just lived their lives. Families worked together, lived together in cramped housing-if they had a roof over their heads at all-and they were happy! We were forced to enjoy eachother without our "creature comforts" and I loved it. I now remember hoping that once we got home, I would never lose that idea that we don't really need much at all. I realized our society makes us think we need more but we really don't. And after watching the video it makes me realize that I have failed miserably.
I had made up my mind that in order to honor my new found attitude and our sons heritage, we would sponsor a Guatemalan family every year so that they could have food and heat and their children could go to school-things we take for granted on a daily basis. For some reason I can never seem to find the money to do that- BUT- I can find the money to buy coffee every day, sometimes several times a day, Collin will see a room full of gifts on Christmas morning, I can go out to eat, I can do whatever I want for the most part. My priorities have gone right back to where they were before I experienced Guatemala and it makes me sad. That is the reason that I am posting the video in a permenant spot on the blog, so that I am constantly reminded, not only during Christmas but all year to give PRESENCE to my friends and family not PRESENTS and to give back to something that I feel very strongly about. I don't write this to push Guatemalan charity or any charity but to encourage anyone reading this to slow down and take a look at your life and see what means the most to you and see where it takes you.
When we were in Guatemala it was truly a life changing experience for a myriad of reasons, only one of which was bringing home a baby! We saw poverty that we could never imagine in this country. I remember thinking when I was there that despite all of the stress of the situation, I was more at peace than I had ever felt in my life. Among other things, there was no pressure to have more...there was nothing to have. People just lived their lives. Families worked together, lived together in cramped housing-if they had a roof over their heads at all-and they were happy! We were forced to enjoy eachother without our "creature comforts" and I loved it. I now remember hoping that once we got home, I would never lose that idea that we don't really need much at all. I realized our society makes us think we need more but we really don't. And after watching the video it makes me realize that I have failed miserably.
I had made up my mind that in order to honor my new found attitude and our sons heritage, we would sponsor a Guatemalan family every year so that they could have food and heat and their children could go to school-things we take for granted on a daily basis. For some reason I can never seem to find the money to do that- BUT- I can find the money to buy coffee every day, sometimes several times a day, Collin will see a room full of gifts on Christmas morning, I can go out to eat, I can do whatever I want for the most part. My priorities have gone right back to where they were before I experienced Guatemala and it makes me sad. That is the reason that I am posting the video in a permenant spot on the blog, so that I am constantly reminded, not only during Christmas but all year to give PRESENCE to my friends and family not PRESENTS and to give back to something that I feel very strongly about. I don't write this to push Guatemalan charity or any charity but to encourage anyone reading this to slow down and take a look at your life and see what means the most to you and see where it takes you.
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