Friday, October 27, 2006







Mateo Is Coming Home!
I was just about to sign on late this afternoon and post a kind of bummed out post that I hadn't heard much good news this week....when I got a very hurried email from a friend of mine. She got out of PGN today!

I was so excited when I read her email, you would have thought I just received news that I was out! I am so happy for her, her family, and Mateo, her new son. When you are out of PGN your adoption is final...they just have to get a new birth certificate with his new last name and the names of his new mommy and daddy. Then they have to apply for a passport and a visa and next thing you know they will be on the plane to go get him.

Kathleen and I received our referrals (knowledge of who our babies were) on the same day, May 5, 2006. We have the same agency and the same attorney in Guatemala. We have corresponded almost daily since then. We have gone step by step together in the process. We were slowed down a bit with our 171 (approval to adopt an orphan from the US Immigration) so we have always been one week behind her.

Everyone please cross your fingers, toes, and your eyes (I have heard that is doubly effective) and pray that the trend continues and we get out of PGN next week!

At the bottom of Kathleens' emails she has a saying below her signature...it says...The Waiting Is The Hardest Part...Tom Petty
So Kathleen, Family and Mateo....Here is a little Tom Petty, Just for You!