This morning, Albert, Micah, and I appeared in a Guatemalan Courtroom, along with a few other key players. Albert and I were both physically ill as we waited to go inside the small courtroom where the hearing was being held. The bottomline, Micah is an adoptable child and the judge stated that we could be through with the Guatemalan side before Christmas!
Now it is up to the US to identify him as an abandoned orphan, which the Guatemalans did today, so we pray this is enough!!! We will be in contact as soon as we receive the thumbs up from our immigration attorney about our letters to Secretaries Clinton and Napolitano.
Prior to this meeting, our US attorney had put us in contact with a translator here in Guatemala, Carolyn Minera. I had spoken with her three times before meeting her yesterday. She is my new bff! This woman is a certified court translator AND has dual citizenship with the US, her mother is from New Orleans. So, she and her children´s English were as good as ours! Not only that, but we discovered that our families are very similar. Carolyn, her husband, along with their three children (2 girls and a 2 year old son) picked the three of us up yesterday and took us to this beautiful mall to a section in Guatemala City we had never been. The mall was as nice, if not nicer than The Avenues Mall in Jax or The Mall in St. Matthews in Louisville. And we could not get over the American influence! Half of the stores were American, plus the shirts had English-American phrases. Micah had a ball watching all the activity, especially the Karate demonstration given by several children in the center of the mall, their routine choreographed to American music! We took him to the Lemon Tree, a little cafe with a toddler´s jungle gym, equipped with slides and hundreds of yellow and green plastic balls! Poppa and he slid down the slides and threw the balls at each other, I´m not sure who had the best time. There was also an Applebee´s, a huge IMAX theatre, Sears, Radio Shack, I swear, if I did not know I was in Guatemala, I could swear I was in Jacksonville, Florida! Micah, Albert, and I had such a wonderful time together thanks to the warmth and genorosity of Carolyn and her family!
It finally looks like our prayers will be answered. Even though, we have embarked upon a horendous journey, we have encountered some genuine and amazing souls. We could have never gotten through these past two plus years without the love, prayers, enthusiasm, and moral support from our family, friends, and colleagues! We love you ALL!! GOD IS GREAT!
Now it is up to the US to identify him as an abandoned orphan, which the Guatemalans did today, so we pray this is enough!!! We will be in contact as soon as we receive the thumbs up from our immigration attorney about our letters to Secretaries Clinton and Napolitano.
Prior to this meeting, our US attorney had put us in contact with a translator here in Guatemala, Carolyn Minera. I had spoken with her three times before meeting her yesterday. She is my new bff! This woman is a certified court translator AND has dual citizenship with the US, her mother is from New Orleans. So, she and her children´s English were as good as ours! Not only that, but we discovered that our families are very similar. Carolyn, her husband, along with their three children (2 girls and a 2 year old son) picked the three of us up yesterday and took us to this beautiful mall to a section in Guatemala City we had never been. The mall was as nice, if not nicer than The Avenues Mall in Jax or The Mall in St. Matthews in Louisville. And we could not get over the American influence! Half of the stores were American, plus the shirts had English-American phrases. Micah had a ball watching all the activity, especially the Karate demonstration given by several children in the center of the mall, their routine choreographed to American music! We took him to the Lemon Tree, a little cafe with a toddler´s jungle gym, equipped with slides and hundreds of yellow and green plastic balls! Poppa and he slid down the slides and threw the balls at each other, I´m not sure who had the best time. There was also an Applebee´s, a huge IMAX theatre, Sears, Radio Shack, I swear, if I did not know I was in Guatemala, I could swear I was in Jacksonville, Florida! Micah, Albert, and I had such a wonderful time together thanks to the warmth and genorosity of Carolyn and her family!
It finally looks like our prayers will be answered. Even though, we have embarked upon a horendous journey, we have encountered some genuine and amazing souls. We could have never gotten through these past two plus years without the love, prayers, enthusiasm, and moral support from our family, friends, and colleagues! We love you ALL!! GOD IS GREAT!
2 comments:
That is the best news we have heard in an extremely long time. We are so praying for you all. Hugs and kisses to all of you.
Steve, Becky, Bailey, Star, Sampson, Louie, Vinnie & Mrs. Hill.
Great news. I am so happy for you guys. You have been waiting so long to have some good news. Hope it continues for you. We just left Guat. on Sept 30th. from a visit trip to see Kinsey. We just missed you guys, Stay in touch.
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