Thankful for Maranatha

Recent Picture of Frankie……
With New Years coming up in just a few days I’ve already started to bullet the list of things I’ve been thankful for this year.  And today I’m thankful for Heartline Ministries.  They run Maranatha Children’s Home and that is where our son Frankie lives until he comes home to the states.  [...]

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Christmas in Haiti for Frankie

Guess what was waiting for us this evening?

We thought about Frankie so much today. It’s weird having part of your family not with you on Christmas day.  Today was a first for me.  The whole day was wonderful and intentional with family and times of giving but all day long… something was missing.  My mom gives the [...]

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Merry Christmas From our Family to Yours…

I think I under estimate this whole adoption journey all of the time.  I don’t like piecing together pictures of our family.  The fact is that we have three kids but our family photo’s don’t represent that.  I’m an artist. I like to create things.  When painting you always add things that you feel you [...]

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Prayer Request

We just got the following email yesterday from our contact at Heartline…… 
“I learned on Friday that Junior was unable to put Frankie’s dossier into IBESR as the mayor’s office has not yet released the paper which declares Frankie as abandoned.  This is the last paper for your dossier to be submitted – yours and two [...]

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Surprise Random Emails

Well not so random.  This week Aaron and Jamie Ivey have been in Haiti visiting their two children.  I’ve  been following their journey on their blogs and always love to see what is happening as they are there.  And I guess I just totally did not think that they would be getting to see Frankie.  [...]

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47 days

In 47 days I’m going to get a chance to meet our son Frankie!! 
Yep you heard correct.  Some amazing…amazing…amazing people called me last week and said they wanted to give me a ticket to go see Frankie.  Dave and I have been talking about getting to Haiti.  Maybe late spring or early fall at best.  We [...]

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