Well, I talked to Alba (Pedro's secretary) the other day, asking about a case that we have been waiting for a birth certificate now for 2 months. She informed me that due to all the calls, RENAP has made the following changes about how they do things.
1. Mondays and Wednesdays are used for "review of cases".
2. Tuesday is the ONLY day that an attorney can present "new cases" to RENAP (then they have to wait 2 weeks before they can even ask about the cases they submitted)
3. Thursdays are the only days that they can call and ask about their cases.
4. Fridays are the only days that they will finalize and attorneys can pick up cases that are done.
This is quite frustrating to know that if we don't get one out on Friday, we have to wait a full week before we can know anything again. THEN, once we do get it out, they have to go back to the place of origin and get "inscribed and sealed" before they can be given back to the attorneys. For those waiting and getting ready to enter into this part of the process, please know that there is absolutely nothing that we can do but wait. We will do our best to get information for you and let you know the minute we know and have it confirmed! Thanks for understanding, I know it's difficult to wait.
I also want to welcome home to their forever families: Antonio and Daniel. They are both here in Kansas and have been back in the last 2 weeks!
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Where does the time go???
I was just thinking I needed to post and looked and I haven't posted in over a week now! Sorry about that. Have I mentioned how CRAZY-BUSY we have been lately?
The sports have tapered off now and this Friday is Gabe's last XC (cross country) meet! He ran in Winfield last weekend and took 13th, and ran the mile in 6:38! I am SO proud of him! He really gets sick to his stomach and has horrible nausea before a meet. I told him it was probably frogs instead of butterflies! He still runs and does a spectacular job. Basketball tryouts are in a week or 2, not sure of the date, but then the practices will really begin. XC has been a great "conditioning sport" for him to get ready for Basketball, which is his "first love"!
Soccer will be done the end of the month. We have a tournament this Saturday and a couple more games and then we are done. I know this is probably politically incorrect and I know I have mentioned this before but what MILLIONS of people see in soccer....I don't know?! You would think that growing up in Guatemala where soccer is played more than ANY other sport, I would have grown to love it, but not true! Maybe it's just Junior High soccer, but I really find it rather boring. I love to take pictures but find it very difficult to get good shots when the field is too large! (I'll quit venting! LOL) Jacob said that he would probably NOT go out for soccer in 6th grade! WHEW!!
Abi's basketball will kick up the end of this month. She still told me the other day..."Mom, I just HATE basketball!" ARGH! She is only playing because all of her 3rd grade girl friends will be on the same team. She would rather play volleyball, but I think it's too late to switch now. Oh well, it will be a learning experience for all of us.
I think I mentioned before, Todd and I are working w/the young singles at church (18-24 years) Anyway, the 2nd and 4th Wednesday nights we have a group come to our house for games and food. Last night, since the weather has cooled off, we had them over. The first week we had 4, last night we had 12!!! We set up the badminton net outside and they blasted away 3 birdies (like blew the little heads off of them!) We fixed them w/duct tape. Duct tape fixes anything! We also bought a chiminea and had a little fire and roasted marshmallows. I fixed chili and we had a really good time. We played Tabu and it was a close game 49-50! Of course, My team won! Fun night, great singles group!
The sports have tapered off now and this Friday is Gabe's last XC (cross country) meet! He ran in Winfield last weekend and took 13th, and ran the mile in 6:38! I am SO proud of him! He really gets sick to his stomach and has horrible nausea before a meet. I told him it was probably frogs instead of butterflies! He still runs and does a spectacular job. Basketball tryouts are in a week or 2, not sure of the date, but then the practices will really begin. XC has been a great "conditioning sport" for him to get ready for Basketball, which is his "first love"!
Soccer will be done the end of the month. We have a tournament this Saturday and a couple more games and then we are done. I know this is probably politically incorrect and I know I have mentioned this before but what MILLIONS of people see in soccer....I don't know?! You would think that growing up in Guatemala where soccer is played more than ANY other sport, I would have grown to love it, but not true! Maybe it's just Junior High soccer, but I really find it rather boring. I love to take pictures but find it very difficult to get good shots when the field is too large! (I'll quit venting! LOL) Jacob said that he would probably NOT go out for soccer in 6th grade! WHEW!!
Abi's basketball will kick up the end of this month. She still told me the other day..."Mom, I just HATE basketball!" ARGH! She is only playing because all of her 3rd grade girl friends will be on the same team. She would rather play volleyball, but I think it's too late to switch now. Oh well, it will be a learning experience for all of us.
I think I mentioned before, Todd and I are working w/the young singles at church (18-24 years) Anyway, the 2nd and 4th Wednesday nights we have a group come to our house for games and food. Last night, since the weather has cooled off, we had them over. The first week we had 4, last night we had 12!!! We set up the badminton net outside and they blasted away 3 birdies (like blew the little heads off of them!) We fixed them w/duct tape. Duct tape fixes anything! We also bought a chiminea and had a little fire and roasted marshmallows. I fixed chili and we had a really good time. We played Tabu and it was a close game 49-50! Of course, My team won! Fun night, great singles group!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Fall is in the air!
Welcome Fall! I just love the changes in the seasons! I am ready for each change as it comes. I love the crisp air in the fall, the leaves changing and chili! Then once it's been "cool" for a while, I am completely ready for it to be COLD! I love snow! I love to ski in it, play in it and I especially love to watch my kids play in it and take pictures! I'm going to try to attach a favorite picture of mine from last Dec. On the 22nd of Dec, it snowed here in Wichita 9 inches! It was the giant, fluffy snow that made great snow balls. It was cold and very wet and white out conditions on that Saturday. That Sunday, the 23rd, we woke up to perfectly clear skies and beautiful snow! It was nice enough to play in shirtsleeves after church. My picture will say it all! Then I love the warming of the weather for Spring. It's nice to be able to not have to wear the layers of clothes and be able to let your skin breathe for a while outside. By June, I am ready for the HOT and being out at the pool watching the kids swim and reading a book! I guess you could say it's my "therapy." God knew what He was doing when he created and separated the seasons for us to enjoy and I beleive He knew that we would need the changes to be reminded of who He is and that He is in control!
ADOPTION NEWS:
Not much going on in the Guatemala adoption world this week. We have checked out several cases that have taken way too long and they keep telling us to come back tomorrow....This has been going on for a month now. I'm getting pretty tired of it. We also still do not have any concrete information about yesterday's deadline for the 2nd chance of birth mothers to come in for the interview. I will post that news as soon as we have something more definite. We do have the court dates for about 10 of the 16 children that are in the "abandonment" phase and were not placed with families before the shut down in Dec. This is a good thing since we will have the children ready and available by the first of the year and if they open back up by then, the children at Nido del Aguila will not have to wait even longer for their forever family, whether it's a Guatemalan family or not. Actually 2 of the appointments were scheduled for this week, then we have a break until Dec for the others.
I will post more this week so please keep reading and I hope it's a good read for those reading my blog! Thanks! OH, Please post any questions you might have and I'll do my best to answer them.
ADOPTION NEWS:
Not much going on in the Guatemala adoption world this week. We have checked out several cases that have taken way too long and they keep telling us to come back tomorrow....This has been going on for a month now. I'm getting pretty tired of it. We also still do not have any concrete information about yesterday's deadline for the 2nd chance of birth mothers to come in for the interview. I will post that news as soon as we have something more definite. We do have the court dates for about 10 of the 16 children that are in the "abandonment" phase and were not placed with families before the shut down in Dec. This is a good thing since we will have the children ready and available by the first of the year and if they open back up by then, the children at Nido del Aguila will not have to wait even longer for their forever family, whether it's a Guatemalan family or not. Actually 2 of the appointments were scheduled for this week, then we have a break until Dec for the others.
I will post more this week so please keep reading and I hope it's a good read for those reading my blog! Thanks! OH, Please post any questions you might have and I'll do my best to answer them.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Another week has come and gone
Well, this week we have several families in Guatemala picking up their kiddos. This week Pascuala and Daniel go home, next week we hope for at least one more and maybe two. We did have 3 cases come out approved from the PGN this week and we are all very happy for that. We really hope that all of our placed children will be home this year. Please continue to pray for the speedy finalization of the rest of the cases. We are coming up on the Christmas Season and you remember how the PGN goes 1/2 staff from Nov 15-Jan 15. So we would like to see them all done before then.
Personally, we got through this week of extreme extra curricular sports. Whew! 3 scheduled soccer games (x2) since there is an "A" team and "B" team and Jacob plays on both teams. So 6 games later, then homework and tests to study for made for a hectic week. I do have to say, although probably horribly "unsportsmanlike" or sportsly incorrect, I absolutely do NOT enjoy watching soccer. I know that this may come as a shock so many of you (mainly my sister who has 3 kids and a husband in soccer Sorry Felis!) I feel her pain! I hope she enjoys it better than I do! tee hee) So watching 6 games for me from 4-6 pm 2 days this week was hard for me! It's so LONG and so much running (which I hate to do so thankfully I'm not doing it), then the field is so big that you can't see the kids very well. One game was out of town so we opted not to go. Sorry to go on and on about it, but I thought Basketball was bad, now I love to watch that, so maybe one day, I'll enjoy watching soccer better than I am right now. In the middle of that Gabe also had a CX (cross country) meet on Tuesday and will have another one tomorrow morning. We signed Abi up for YMCA basketball w/her friends from school....Not sure if she will like it since she told my mom at one of the boys' b-ball games, "Gramma, I really H-A-A-A-TE basketball!"
Well, enough about life in the Humble House! Have a great weekend everyone!
Personally, we got through this week of extreme extra curricular sports. Whew! 3 scheduled soccer games (x2) since there is an "A" team and "B" team and Jacob plays on both teams. So 6 games later, then homework and tests to study for made for a hectic week. I do have to say, although probably horribly "unsportsmanlike" or sportsly incorrect, I absolutely do NOT enjoy watching soccer. I know that this may come as a shock so many of you (mainly my sister who has 3 kids and a husband in soccer Sorry Felis!) I feel her pain! I hope she enjoys it better than I do! tee hee) So watching 6 games for me from 4-6 pm 2 days this week was hard for me! It's so LONG and so much running (which I hate to do so thankfully I'm not doing it), then the field is so big that you can't see the kids very well. One game was out of town so we opted not to go. Sorry to go on and on about it, but I thought Basketball was bad, now I love to watch that, so maybe one day, I'll enjoy watching soccer better than I am right now. In the middle of that Gabe also had a CX (cross country) meet on Tuesday and will have another one tomorrow morning. We signed Abi up for YMCA basketball w/her friends from school....Not sure if she will like it since she told my mom at one of the boys' b-ball games, "Gramma, I really H-A-A-A-TE basketball!"
Well, enough about life in the Humble House! Have a great weekend everyone!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Crazy week!
WOW! It was a pretty crazy weekend and the week will only get more jam-packed with extra-curricular sports. I don't know how most parents do it. Friday afternoon, Gabe had a cross country meet. He came in 17th and ran the mile in 6:37.80, his own personal record! THEN, at 6:00 Abi had to be at school to cheer for the Homecoming Football game. The little girls got to go out and do a couple of cheers during 1/2 time. It was a beautiful night for football! Nice and cool, lots of junk food and lots of noise. We did win, so that was a plus! Today, Jacob had a soccer game. They didn't win, but played hard. Tomorrow, both boys have games/meets out of town so we probably won't go to either. (WHEW!) Jacob has another game on Thursday and then Gabe has another meet on Saturday. Soon, we'll start Basketball with Abi. That's my nutshell weekend update.
Now for Adoption stuff!
Things are still moving pretty slow in Guatemala. We are finally seeing some more birth certificates come out of RENAP which have been there for quite some time! We know that the families are so anxious to get their hands on their babies! Pray for Guatemala as everything is still up in the air.
For those of you who don't know RENAP is an acronym for a new Civil Registry in Guatemala. Most of the small towns have RENAP and what happens is once an adoption is approved, the next step is to get a new birth certificate with the adoptive parents' last name. The attorney will send the required paperwork to the city & Providence where the child was born and then they will start the new paperwork. THEN, that city has to send it to the RENAP in Guatemala City, where it will take weeks, sometimes 4-6 weeks, to update it in the "National Registry". Then they send it back to the city of birth, where they print and certify it and give it back to the attorney. Once this process is finished, THEN we can proceed to do the passport and submit final paperwork to the embassy for the 2nd DNA and then finally pink. I hope this clears up the RENAP issue, this new process just started at the first of the year and there are still glitches!
We still do not have any information on the cases where the birth mother has not shown up. As previously posted, they have given a new date of Sept 30th to get the mothers in again. SO, we still wait until they decide what to do.
Adoption Reunion/Workshop! I think that I need to clarify, if you live out of state and still wish to come, you are not excluded!!! Please let me know. We just thought having a little get together for KS was easy to do at short notice. We still plan to have the big one in June 2009 and that is far enough in advance for many of you to make your plans to come! We are also going to see if we can get a couple more ladies to come up, but that is still in the works.
Now for Adoption stuff!
Things are still moving pretty slow in Guatemala. We are finally seeing some more birth certificates come out of RENAP which have been there for quite some time! We know that the families are so anxious to get their hands on their babies! Pray for Guatemala as everything is still up in the air.
For those of you who don't know RENAP is an acronym for a new Civil Registry in Guatemala. Most of the small towns have RENAP and what happens is once an adoption is approved, the next step is to get a new birth certificate with the adoptive parents' last name. The attorney will send the required paperwork to the city & Providence where the child was born and then they will start the new paperwork. THEN, that city has to send it to the RENAP in Guatemala City, where it will take weeks, sometimes 4-6 weeks, to update it in the "National Registry". Then they send it back to the city of birth, where they print and certify it and give it back to the attorney. Once this process is finished, THEN we can proceed to do the passport and submit final paperwork to the embassy for the 2nd DNA and then finally pink. I hope this clears up the RENAP issue, this new process just started at the first of the year and there are still glitches!
We still do not have any information on the cases where the birth mother has not shown up. As previously posted, they have given a new date of Sept 30th to get the mothers in again. SO, we still wait until they decide what to do.
Adoption Reunion/Workshop! I think that I need to clarify, if you live out of state and still wish to come, you are not excluded!!! Please let me know. We just thought having a little get together for KS was easy to do at short notice. We still plan to have the big one in June 2009 and that is far enough in advance for many of you to make your plans to come! We are also going to see if we can get a couple more ladies to come up, but that is still in the works.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
KANSAS GUATEMALA/ADOPTION GET TOGETHER
I want to officially post that we are hosting a get together for families that have previously adopted from Guatemala and want to get together with other adoptive families in the state of Kansas. We are also going to have a little "workshop" for families interested in pursuing adoptions in the future whether with Guatemala, Taiwan or Haiti or perhaps even domestic. Please tell your friends and family.
The date for this eveng will be Sunday, October 5th from 2-5 in the BelAire Recreational Center. You can get to it off of Oliver and 48th Street North. BelAire is north of Wichita. If you have changed your address or would like us to update your files, please let us know by writing to me at ginger@specialdeliveryint.com
Please RSVP to me at my e-mail or you can call me at 316-737-2125 We hope to see you there!
The date for this eveng will be Sunday, October 5th from 2-5 in the BelAire Recreational Center. You can get to it off of Oliver and 48th Street North. BelAire is north of Wichita. If you have changed your address or would like us to update your files, please let us know by writing to me at ginger@specialdeliveryint.com
Please RSVP to me at my e-mail or you can call me at 316-737-2125 We hope to see you there!
News from Guatemala
Talking with our Attorney's secretary today, she informed me that they have again extended another deadline for birth mother interviews until Sept 30th. This is good news for those where we KNOW the mother is locatable but unwilling to come in, but still "uncertain" for those where we know that the mother is not anywhere to be found. (It kind of prolongs the wait) Please be in prayer for all those who are now being given another "3rd chance" to come in!
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