Ups and Downs

It has been an eventful week!  We started our  week off with a VERY successful spaghetti dinner.  We had over 200 people attend! It was great to talk to everyone about our plans and Ana. We are truly amazed at how supportive our community has been.  And extremely grateful. We had a wonderful group of family and friends to help with our amazing day!  It looks like we are well on our way to our goal - about $3-4000 more to go!

That same day, Kyle hurt his knee during a soccer game.  Jim spent Monday and Tuesday taking Kyle to the dr, xrays and an MRI.  He has torn his meniscus and possibly ACL.  He is scheduled for surgery June 1.  We will know more about the extent of the injury after the surgery.  No driving, no soccer, not much of anything makes for a pretty miserable 16 year old.  We are hopeful the the "best scenario" that the dr. gave - 4 months- is even less and that it isn't the worst - 8 months!  This leads to a travel issue for us.  It looks like he will not be able to travel.  Since we do not have a date yet, we are hoping that by the time we go - he will be able to go with us.  Not sure I can take 3 and leave one behind :(

Adoption paper work - another down of the week!  Just when we think we have taken 10 steps forward, we seem to take 11 steps back!   Forms need changed or redone, Keegan and Kelton's passport applications were not signed by the post office and sent back (after we paid the ridiculous expedite fees), our INS form is still not back despite  many phone calls, it seems like we can't win.  Jim has dealt with most of the stress resulting from this since he is more available during the day to be on the phone with "people who can not handle doing their jobs" - direct quote by Jim many times during the past week.

So, we are hoping that this week has more good news than bad - expecting our INS paper, the boys' passports and hopeful the forms that needed slight changes will be done.  As our forms are done, they are being sent to be translated.  So when the official forms are finally there, they will just need to be submitted.  It looks like we won't be making our early June date (since that is only 3 days away).  But, as hard as it is to except, we know that it will all come together in God's time.