Our Family Journey

My Heart Has Been Broken

I have actually been dreading posting this information because I just really haven't been able to deal with it yet. I hadn't posted in the past couple of weeks because I really thought that our paperwork would be approved any day and I would be able to post a very happy detail of our approval. Well, we haven't been approved, we were issued a previo by the Guatemalan government, it's basically a request for more information or for a document to be fixed. We received our previo on January 24th...8 weeks and 1 day after being submitted for approval. I am still wrestling with why they had to wait so long to issue the previo. We could have had it fixed and been back into PGN by now had they issued it 6 or 7 weeks ago. Alas, none of that matters now, we have been issued the previo, my attorney has to fix the previo and then get us resubmitted. When will we be resubmitted? My guess is some time in the next 30 days and then we will wait up to and possibly beyond another 8 weeks for approval. Seems like forever doesn't it. It sure does to me. Anyway, I had originally hoped that Flora would be home for Christmas and that didn't happen and then I thought the middle of March and that won't happen so I guess I have set my sights on Memorial Day. I pray to God that it happens by then. We will see. There isn't anything any of us are going to do about it and there isn't any chance that we won't wait as long as it takes so here we are....waiting, waiting, waiting. Maybe this post will actually help me deal with the heartbreak of the previo...again I guess I will wait and see if that happens.

I did however receive some new pictures of Flora on Thursday, January 24th. How's that for fate...the day that the guy issuing previo's issued ours we recieved pictures. Maybe someone upstairs was trying to make me feel better before I even knew it. Here is our beautiful, now crawling little girl.