Waiting, hard to do....

It is day 49 of our wait for PA, no word yet. A few people have gotten PA at around day 58, so hopefully we will get ours soon...that would be 9 days away. It is so hard not hearing ANYTHING. We haven't even received a medical report lately, the last one was May 3rd. I wonder how big she is now. It's been a month since we came back from visiting Tabitha. I wonder if she'll remember us when go to pick her up.
Tim and I did take a little time for ourselves last weekend. We went on a spur of the moment trip to the beach. We only live about 150 miles away from Myrtle Beach so we went there for the weekend. It was very relaxing for us. We played in the ocean, floated along the lazy river at the hotel, and just rested. We hope that we'll get to take Tabitha to the beach next summer and hopefully Tim's grown daughter and her husband will be able to join us. For now, we wait....it is oh so hard to do.

same ol', same ol'

Well, it's been 6 days since my last post--the slide show of Tabitha. We are still waiting for PA, it is day 33 now. Back in the old days, we would have received PA by now and we would have been in PGN. Not anymore, it is a long drawn out process these days adopting from Guatemala. We chose Guatemala to adopt from because they were one of the quicker foreign adoption countries. It's funny how a few bad people ruin it for all. The old saying "it only takes 1 bad apple to ruin the basket" is so true. I know that God has a plan and a time picked out for us and our journey, but as humans, an impatient one at that, it is very trying for me. I just keep repeating to myself, "good things come to those who wait"....sometimes I want to click my heels together like Dorothy in the "Wizard of Oz" and make things be magically fixed. But, I have no control over any of this. It is ALL up to God.
So, I sit and wait....same ol' same ol'

Tabitha: Our precious little baby

Life goes on.....

Well, I made it through the rest of the week. Boy, traveling really makes me tired! The flight was the easy part, the 9 hour drive is what killed me. To make matters worse, I had what seems like a mild cold--it's really not much now. So, there were only 4 days to work this week. Everyone at work was excited to see new pictures of Tabitha. I only took 96 digital photos, 3 rolls of regular film and an hour of video. Everyone commented on her hair, how cute she was, etc. BUT, if one more person asks me "So when do you get to bring her home? How come it takes so long?" I think I will scream! I know they mean well, but it is just so frustrating trying to explain to people why things take so long---especially when I have the same questions myself!
I miss my baby girl, but I know that God is watching over her and she has a great foster mom. I am so glad that I did visit her. I'm not sure that I'll be able to do it again before time for her to come home--it is expensive, we need to pay for the rest of the adoption and I want to save some vacation time at work to have to spend with her after she comes home forever. I unfortunately have to keep working, 2 salaries are quite necessary for us to continue to pay our bills. So....life goes on.