We received new pictures from Guatemala today! Isn't our Foster Mother great! It's so nice that she is able to send pictures to us on a regular basis. We made plans to travel to Guatemala over the Thanksgiving holiday, so we have less than 30 days until we are able to see Flora again!!
Daddy and Maria raked some leaves after work today and Daddy decided to take a few pictures of Maria in the leaf pile. When she was finished playing, he had to rake again...but oh well....That's what Daddy's are For!! He also did her hair, by the way!!
After they raked leaves, they decided to go for a walk downtown. Maria decided she wanted to push the buggy instead of ride in it. The video below is of her working very hard to push a very big buggy up a hill.
The Cincinnati Friends Through Guatemalan Adoption (FTGA) group is participating in National Make A Difference Day for the fourth year in a row. The last 3 years we have done work projects that have either benefited the Cincinnati-area Latino population or the people of Guatemala. This year we are asking FTGA members and others touched by Guatemalan adoption to shop at a local Guatemalan business or at an online business that sells Fair Trade Guatemalan items during the week of October 22nd. What a great opportunity to make a difference while shopping! We have compiled a list of businesses from across the U.S. and online to choose from.
To see the list go to http://www.ftga.net and click on "Special Events." You'll see a summary of this year's Make A Difference Day project - in the first paragraph there is orange underlined text that reads "Click here" to see the list of businesses. After you've shopped, we are asking that everyone submit how much they spent - the link to the form is in the second paragraph of the description.
When Love Takes You In
I know you’ve heard the stories
But they all sound too good to be true
You’ve heard about a place called home
But there doesn’t seem to be one for you
So one more night you cry yourself to sleep
And drift off to a distant dream
Where love takes you in and everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart
When love takes you home and says you belong here
The loneliness ends and a new life begins
When love takes you in
And somewhere while you’re sleeping
Someone else is dreaming too
Counting down the days until
They hold you close and say I love you
And like the rain that falls into the sea
In a moment what has been is lost in what will be
When love takes you in everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart
And this love will never let you go
There is nothing that could ever
cause this love to lose its hold
When love takes you in everything changes
A miracle starts with the beat of a heart
When love takes you home and says you belong here
The loneliness ends and a new life begins
When love takes you in it takes you in for good
When love takes you in
Kisses in the Wind
I hold you in my heart and touch you in my dreams,
You are here each day with me, at least that's how it seems.
I know you wonder where we are... what's taking us so long,
But remember child, I love you so and God will keep you strong.
Now go outside and feel the breeze and let it touch your skin...
Because tonight, just as always, I blow you kisses in the wind.
May God hold you in His hand until I can be with you.
I promise you, my darling, I'm doing all that I can do.
Very soon, you'll have a family for real, not just pretend.
But for tonight, just as always, I blow you kisses in the wind.
May God wrap you in His arms and hold you very tight.
And let the angels bring the kisses that I send to you each night.
--Unknown
OK...now for the good stuff...PICTURES It's been such a long time since I have posted that I have lots to share. Here are the pictures of Flora that we received today. Isn't she getting big! I can't wait to get to hold her again!!
I apologize that I haven't updated our blog in awhile...I guess I have been feeling rather uninspired since there hasn't been anything to report. Well today we finally have something to be happy about...actually we have a couple of things, we received some updated pictures from our foster mother and she told us that the social worker interview went well. If you keep up on the facts of our case and are confused because I reported in early September that the social worker interview was complete and now I am stating that it just happened, join the club...so am I. I guess the information I received when I was in Guatemala the last weekend in August was false, the social worker interview was not complete at that time, but it was conducted on Monday, October 15th. That's good news...the bad news is that it usually takes around 4 weeks to get the report from the social worker and then the report along with the rest of our documents can be submitted to PGN..the second to last leg of our adoption journey for Flora. I am hoping to beat the odds and have the report prior to the 4 weeks...I am a gambling woman and I am betting this social worker gal in Guatemala really wants to get this report done and off her desk!! Please God make it happen!! Anyway, just because I am a freak for the number of days that it has taken for any part of this process to happen I have started a ticker to clock our days from social worker interview to PGN...let's hope we don't hit 30!!
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Not Quite Sure What She's Doing In This Photo...Blowing Us A Kiss Maybe?? 
