Comments for De Colombia Con Amor

Comment on Adoption timeline by Mercedes Martin

Mercedes Martin — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:19:13 +0000

Haley:
I have given up on my blog and yours is so beautiful. I continue to think of you, and praying that God will give you what you will need when the kids come. Don’t worry about being emotional now, after almost two years of the girls being here, I continue to get emotional. Mother’s day is also a touchy subject for me as well, even after the adoption. I always have these expectations that never happen, and then I am disappointed. Yesterday I asked the girls for a picture of the four of them with Roses that my sister was selling at church. First, the fought over the roses, then the oldest started complaining about when this was going to over or ‘do we really have to take this picture here?’, the youngest started making faces at the camera, and the second oldest started posing sexy at church! Needless to say I gave up on my idea of having a gift of a picture of the girls. So after 2 years, I only have our first studio portrait, but I do not have a candid picture with the four of them that does not involve a mayor production, bad faces or no smiles.
Anyway, God is preparing the right time and children for you. There will be more you will have to prepare when they come, physically, spiritually. The girls are great, and Colombia does a great job, but your children will have some issues that you will have to deal with. You might think you are prepared, as I did, but there are certain things that I did not expect. Some good, some not so good. So pray now that God may begin healing the childrens’ wounds as well as any you might have at this moment. You will need fortitude, patience and wisdom when they arrive. These are the graces that I pray for every week.
I have decided I will probably start another blog on adopting older kids and close my other one. It got too personal, and there were some things I did not want to share, so I am not sure if I will continue it.
God Bless, we need to get together this summer. We now live in a house in Middleton. . DO NOT hesitate to call me. God Bless.

Comment on New Wait List by Haley Childers

Haley Childers — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:56:22 +0000

Thank you for the info V! I guess we will wait and see what happens!

Comment on New Wait List by Viktorija

Viktorija — Sat, 12 May 2012 17:21:22 +0000

Hi there! Long time!! That’s why I’ve heard of the waiting list: In the past 3 months, there have been problems as the Colombian TV and newspapers focused on some irregularities in one adoption process. All this ended in a long process of revising hundreds of files in order not to make more mistakes.
As far as we know in the Spanish forum, it seems these files revision, will mostly finish at the end of May and everything will be back to normal by June.
Hopefully that’s true!! xx, V.

Comment on Chats with my mom by Laura

Laura — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:42:16 +0000

Ohhh, well written, Haley. I am honored. Thanks and yes we are looking forward to our first weekend of sharing our home with teens.

Comment on New Wait List by Haley Childers

Haley Childers — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:29:41 +0000

Oh thankyou! I am so glad someone is on top of it. I know with the wait times getting longer and longer im started to question this entire process and the length of the wait… Please keep me updated with more details.

Comment on New Wait List by Viktorija

Viktorija — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:06:23 +0000

Hi there! Our agency sent an inquiry to our lawyers in Colombia to find out why there is almost no movement in all the lists between the months. I will let you know when we get some answers! These are horrible numbers to see! I have no idea how I will be able to survive all these coming years! :/ Regards from Iceland!

Comment on Lost in Translation by Haley Childers

Haley Childers — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:26:57 +0000

Thats exactly our thinking as well, Carrie! You are wise wanting to hire a Spanish speaking nanny. What a great way to introduce the language to your family!

Comment on Lost in Translation by Carrie

Carrie — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:12:00 +0000

I feel your pain! We have yet to start Rossetta Stone as I dont’t want to get burned out. I fear without full imersion in the culture the language will be hard. We arw interviewing a sitter for our boys who speaks Spanish so who knows? Good luck!

Comment on Memorial Box Monday – Awe of God by loliette

loliette — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:01:21 +0000

This story make me cry, I came back from colombia with my baby boy a month ago,when I was waiting for my referral, something similar happen to us, but we decide wait for our Colombia baby and after a few months we got our referral. God will bless you really soon with precious & healthy Colombian babies.

Comment on Adoption Tax Credit by Megan

Megan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:12:52 +0000

Thanks for posting this! My husband and I live in MN and are in the process of adopting from Colombia as well. I’ll give Sen. Klobuchar a call!