Hanging Out

In just 10 days, I will be in Haiti "hanging" out with this awesome, great, fabulous kid.

I am soooooo excited.  Rob and I are going together this time. I love that we get to spend time with him together.  I hate leaving Rylan and Kyndal here but spending actually face to face, hand in hand time with him is so wonderful. I pray for the day we are all in the same room to come quickly. 

No news on the paperwork process.  We will only hear something when it leaves IBESR unless there is a problem.  Continue to pray for those examining our files.  Pray they move quickly and efficiently so we can move to the next step as soon as possible.  Thank you!

Wild Olive Tees

We are very excited about this new fundraiser.  Wild Olive Tees is working with us to help raise money to bring our Jimmy home.  Here is what you can do.  Go to the Wild Olive Tees website and shop in the fundraiser tees section.  There are 15 Women's tees and 6 children's tees to choose from.  When you are making a purchase, click on the coupon code button and enter our family code SCHLUP0910.  You must put this code in for us to get credit for your purchase.  In addition to using the code, you may choose to also put our name in the comment section of checkout.  So, get on to wildOlivetees.com and go shopping.  We thank you in advance!

We Are IN!

Yesterday, I posted about how badly we wanted for our dossier to get into IBESR.  I asked all of you to pray that it would get in quickly.  Well, little did I know it went in yesterday.  YAY!!!!  We are so happy to know it is at least in the Haitian government's hands.  Now, if it will stay on the top of the stack and travel through expediently.  Please pray for God to push our dossier (as well as our friends' the Hoovers and the Pirtles) through quick, quick, quick.  We all want our boys home with us.  Thank you for your faithfulness.

Fundraiser update:  We have now sold pieces 23-28.  Thank you Amanda and Jami.  I appreciate you guys soooooo much.  The rainbow of color is so pretty.  Let's continue to light up those blocks.

The "IN" Crowd

We are currently waiting for our dossier to enter IBESR.  IBESR stands for "Institut du BienEtre Social et de Recherches".  What is that?  It is french for the the equivalent of the department of family and children's services, and are responsible for approving each international adoption and ensuring that the adoptive family meets criteria, that the child is eligible for adoption, and that the adoption itself is legitimate, according to Haiti's adoption legislation of 1974.
We are very anxious to get "in" to the IBESR.  It would mean progress and that something is happening.  Once it enters IBESR, it does not mean we are almost done.  It is really just the beginning of the process in Haiti.  We ask that you pray for our dossier to go in as soon as possible and that EVERYTHING is exactly how it should be.  We are praying hard that the process moves with lightening speed.  God's timing is perfect...I just need to be reminded of that on occasion. 
When our dossier leaves IBESR is when our next payment is due.  We need $2500 at that point.  Please consider blessing us by buying a piece of our puzzle quilt.  When we sell all the pieces we will have the money we need for this step.  Thank you for the consideration.

Let's add some color.

Thank you to Pam Abbs for buying #18.  Now we need to add a little color to row three.  Every piece bought bring us closer to meeting our goal and bringing Jimmy home. 

Puzzle Progress

We want to say a BIG THANK YOU to those who bought the first seventeen pieces of our puzzle. Amanda Morton, Stephen Anderson, Marylyn Caraway, Cheatham Family, and Susan Caron...we are blessed by your support.

Just one more block and the first two rows are complete.  

 Wanna see #18 in color?   Just $25 and you can!