Cheri Kay in Haiti....where my life became meaningful.

.......started out like most days in Haiti for me.  The kids went to school, I went to the clinic (which I miss so very much) and hadn't heard anything on the adoption for months.  My brain often calculated how I could raise enough money to support myself and the kids in Haiti, as it seemed that we'd be stuck in MOI for-ev-er!!!! We had already been waiting 20 months for this ONE signature.  Then, late in the afternoon, I got the call!  THE CALL!!!!! THE Call that I had been waiting and praying and crying for!  For 20 months, I'd waited, and finally we got it!!!! I'll never forget hearing Dixie's voice on the other end of my phone saying "We got the signature!!!".  I was BLOWN away.  My body shook, my heart raced, tears ran out of my eyes, my face was smiling, my knees were weak!!!!  I was so happy!!!!! This day was truly the beginning of the end of my 4.5 year wait to bring my Haitian Angels home to the US.  Now today, I sit here, r...

So much has happened in the past week, my brain is like mush.  I am just going to start with thanking the Lord for who HE is.  My heart is so heavy for my friends and loved ones in Haiti.  I feel worthless here in the States.  I know there is nothing I can do to take away the suffering that they have all indured.   Ecrissa is doing fine.  She had her follow-up appointment yesterday and everything looks good.  She went back to school today and had an awesome day.  The kids in her class were very excited to see her!  That is fun for me to see.  Many times, Ecrissa misses out on so much because people don't sign and are unable to communicate with her.  But, when I walked into her classroom with her this morning, everyone was signing and she was communicating and they all were smiling and it was so heart warming!  I long for her to have so many more friendships and connections such as this! Jaryse is still loving having gr...

We made it!!!!!  Today was a crazy day with lots of emotions, but filled with prayers from people all over keeping us full of peace!!  Ecrissa had her surgery and is doing great! The above pics are right after we checked in.  She was so cute.  The first thing she did was told the receptionist that she was getting an implant!!! Then we went into pre-op where Ecrissa was a superstar!  She kept her Franklin book with her and that helped her deal with all the stuff that was happening and she even asked for the gown and the bed!!! So cute!  She got a little frustrated waiting for things to begin, as the surgery before us set us back about 30 min.  Ecrissa has a hard time understanding why we had to just sit there and wait, so she whimpered a little.  But she handled most of it well.  They took her back at about 10 am and it took about 2 hours. Jaryse enjoyed playing and watching movies with Grandma Sessions and Aunt Ginger And then, a...

Ecrissa goes in for her surgery in 3 hours.  She is still sleeping and I am pacing!  I know she'll do great! I am praising the Lord for His greatness right now!  I know that I can pray for him to hold my daughter, protect her and guide the doctors hands.  I can also pray for the people in Haiti as they deal with this horrible disaster of yesterday.  I can pray for what seems like so much, but to Him, it's so easy!  He has each one of us in His hands and I don't have to choose who to pray for.  I don't have to make decisions regarding who needs Him more!  He can handle it all!  How amazing!  I'm so grateful for that! 

Today has been, well, a day to say the least.  I am feeling so torn in so many directions emotionally.  Today is 10 months home from Haiti!  What a wonderful accomplishment!  Can you believe it!  Then, as I'm praising the Lord for that, I hear that there has been a HUGE earthquake in Port au Prince.  Huge, like greater than 7.0 with many after shocks, some greater than 5.0.  This breaks my heart.  This poor country has gone through so much and so many people are going to suffer and die because of this tragedy.  I'm heartbroken.  I prayed for people that I know, people that I don't and then I prayed and continue to pray that this earthquake will be the event that opens the eyes of the Haitian people to the Lord!  I pray that they will see HIS face in this and that they will turn their lives over to HIM!  This is my prayer.  Please Lord, make this tragedy into something good as you have promised you can and will do!  ...

Happy 2010!!! I am so very excited about all of the wonderful things that the Lord has in store for me and my family this upcoming year! I read my blog entry from last New Years and I realize how much my life has changed since then. On January 1st 2008, I was recovering from a very difficult time in Haiti. I did not share all of this publicly, but I had had a phony kidnapping threat (started out that we all thought it was real, turns out is was a prank by a local kid), credit card fraud on my only credit card (which left me without a valid credit card for over 2 weeks), passport renewal l(eaving me without a passport in Haiti for a week and a half )and an audit by the IRS-----All happening between Dec. 15th and Dec. 31st. It was quite possible the hardest, scariest, and most stressful 16 days of my life!!!! On Jan. 1st, I was still quite depressed from dealing with all of that plus I felt as if I was never going to get to bring my children to the states. I had been dealing with ...