New pictures!!

These were taken by our CCAI guide, Patrick

Pretty Lydie

Angie trying to give Lydie to us. Lydie isn't so sure.

Samson's grumpy face

New pictures of Samson

I was feeling pretty sad tonight when one of our Haiti families emailed me pictures of Samson. She felt so bad for us when she found out our plane had been delayed so she went in the baby room and started snapping pictures of him and telling him his momma was coming. He's such a sweet little boy. 

New pictures!

One of our friends from our trip sent us these. They made me smile.

Silence

We have not heard a single thing from Haiti since we left. Angie is still in the states so her blog has been silent too. In a way it's easy to trust the Lord in this, because you have no other choice. I suppose instead of trusting God you could roll up in a ball and worry yourself to death about how your children are doing, but I've been in that place before in a different circumstance and I refuse to go back there again. It nearly killed me.

A few of the other Haiti families are having a really hard time. Some of them have already started pricing tickets to return in Haiti in June for a family bonding trip. The orphanage plans a few of these throughout the year. It's difficult for us to decide what's best. Our kids are young enough, we don't know if it's worth the emotional pain to go see them and not be able to take them home again. Part of me wants the next time I see them to be for good.

April is a big month for us though as the kids' birth mothers have their interviews at the US Embassy in Haiti on the 11th. Please pray. Things can potentially go wrong during these interviews, so pray the birth moms show up and are honest. One thing we don't know how it will play out is the fact that Lydie's birth father is deceased. Our lawyer was not aware of that information until we met her that day, so hopefully there won't be any hiccups with that. Sometimes in the case of a deceased parent, a death certificate needs to be issued, so we will wait and see what happens with that.

I had the opportunity to share about our journey at a concert on Saturday.  I made a quick video, because it's easier to do that then speak in public. I was able to talk to several people after the concert and share my experience. I met several people who also had some sort of connection with Haiti.  We all said the same thing. Haiti is a beautiful country with beautiful people and your heart just breaks for the situation there. I am posting the video that we played at the concert. Sorry for the rough-edit. I finished the project the day of the concert!

Videos of our kids I posted to Facebook

Video Blog of our Haiti Trip