Going Silent

Wow. Was never prepared for this. Was prepared for some tough days but never this. We decided to go silent. If you want updates please call me. We need the love, support and prayers of all our family and friends. We will not be putting anything out there for public eye to read, even on a private blog.
I'll miss you!

Soldier up!

There are no words to describe the heaviness of my heart today. I wait, and wait till 11am in hopes that I will have good news. My kids are in court today. Not for our adoption, as we had hoped and waited for, but because of child trafficking charges. This could go either way for us. The truth could be heard and our path cleared to bring our boys home. The truth could be bent, changed, distorted, polluted and a big heavy boulder can come crashing down on us.

Lots of people in Ghana are being charged with counts of child trafficking. Some of those people have ties to our case. I can not tell anyone what they have or have not done in the past but I can tell you what I know and I have seen. No one from Social Welfare has ever asked us for money or have we told anyone we would give them money. No member of my boys birth family has ever asked for money or have we ever told them we would pay money. NO ONE has pocketed a dime on our adoption!

It feels like I am marching Papa Ghana to the battle front! He is such a great guy, a great soldier. He is sooo nervous. He has loved my boys like his own, put his family at risk to save mine. I am so grateful!

Where is this all coming from. I can't say for sure because I have no proof and I am not one to slander someones reputation just to get my way or make a point, even if I knew for sure and had proof. However, I do have my thoughts...and they are pretty strong. So I have one thing to say... Yes, money talks...especially in Africa but GOD speaks louder.

I DO NOT claim to know a lot. I DO NOT know when this will end or what other hills, and African jungles we will have to venture through. I DO know how this will end because I have seen it and it is what has driven me so far down this unknown road, His hand in mine the entire way, guiding me ever so gently as I stumble for my step sometimes. My kids will come home!

Like Christmas Morning

I want to send out a special thank you to a sweet woman who contacted me yesterday. She was a volunteer at LH for 3 months last year while my kids were there. She sent me about 40 priceless pictures of my children. I told her I felt like it was Christmas morning seeing another email after another and opening it up to see another treasure, another one of Little Mans funny faces or Big Mans look of surprise and concern! I love them all! I also see other faces of children who I know are home and happy now. (I will send you those pictures) Not only do they mean so much to us right now as we miss them on a daily basis but they will grow up having pictures of their life before we became a family. THANK YOU!


So are you dying to see some of them? Hear you go...

I love this picture because they had just received their school uniforms and this was not too long before we met them. This is the image in my mind every time I thought of them before we reconnected.

He giggles so much! Sometimes I can't understand a word he says on the phone because something is so fun he can't stop laughing. This is what I envision on the other line. (Okay, the truth, I usually can't understand much of what he says regardless of if he is laughing or not, but we are getting better at that.)

Look at this face....HMMMM! It's enough to make you crazy with love. Does the other face look familiar FPM? I'll send you a pick if you don't have this already.

From a far, this looks like two kids running down the hill. But, if you zoom in and look at the expression on Big Mans face its puts me in stitches....I love it!

This face makes him look like his little brother. "The Studman" makes this face before he attacks me. I can't wait to have two little teeth bearing boys trying to get me. Cracks me up!

His first swig of COKE! Like father like son. I'm sure it would be a hoot to see this little energetic guy full of caffeine.

Big man is excited for something that just happened or is going to happen...I think? I love the thumbs up. It a universal sign for good things. I will probably be using this often with them.

Thumbs up again! The volunteers had just finished this boys dorm and painted it blue. It was not there when I was there so the timing is unknown to me.

I love this picture! I am so grateful for ALL the great volunteers who loved and hugged my kids as much possible. I hear Big Man cried when this volunteer left so if anyone knows her please let her know I am grateful!

Little Man got a pineapple FANTA (one of my favorite things about Ghana!) when the volunteers took some kids to the beach. He was proud of his yellow tongue.

I had to edit this "full body shot" in order to post it. I love big mans face in this picture. I love all the white bubbles on his dark skin. I love his missing teeth! I love the tiny wash bowl he is standing in, even though I cropped it out! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT!

Something funny seems to be going on!