T-Minus 6 Days and Counting

Frankie and me last January during our last visit together.  I can’t wait to have three people in the picture here soon!

This time next week, Dave and I will be in Haiti and spending some time with Frankie.  It’s been a while since I’ve given a Frankie update. We really have not had much news to report. Our file that was finally entered this past April is still in IBESR the first step. Some people are in this step for 6 months, others in it for more than a year. There is no rhyme or reason for it. As of today we’ve been in this step for 7 months. The wait goes on.

I’m very excited about having Dave meet Frankie and to visit Haiti for the first time. The place that has stirred my heart and has shaped me since my first visit there as a Junior in high school. The country that our son is from. I got an email update yesterday from our contact who said last week they had a team in and there was a girl that looked lot like me… She said Frankie was enthralled with her and was calling her mama. It gives me some hope that he will remember me. That he will know I’m different. He’s so young still that I’m still someone that comes and goes like so many others. I’m just praying for a great bonding time while we are there as we get to invade on his world for a few days.

I’m amazed by our girls and their love for their brother they have never met. Just a few nights ago as we were doing our normal routine for getting them down for bed, Izzie prayed first and her unprompted prayer was for Frankie to know that we love him. Emma followed by praying for safe travel for mommy and daddy as they go see Frankie in Haiti. He is always on our minds and in our hearts. His absence is always felt even by the girls. Izzie and Emma now share a room together and the other empty room right now is Frankie’s. His room is waiting for him along with his family.

Every time and I mean every time we think of Frankie or this process or hopes that he will be home sooner than we think, we don’t ever for one minute not think of the hands of people who have prayed for us or so generously given to help us in this process, or encouraged us with their words. It blows us away. And it’s always at the moments that we least expect it that David Reichley at Wayfarer will let us know that someone else has given to our fund. I can’t even put words on it. Even today in the mail came a gift with the instructions to use the money towards our trip and get something special for Frankie. Our trip alone is a blessing. Someone offered to get one of our tickets so that both Dave and I could go. We’ve been VERY humbled to sit and see the Lord choose to use others to bless us. All I can say is that we are being faithful with what has been given to us and in this whole process have been able to bless others as well in their adoption journey.

We can’t wait to see Frankie. As a mom I’m a bit fearful of leaving my girls behind with Dave going along as well traveling to Haiti. So please just pray for peace about that for us. Pray for our girls as we are away. We are flying Spirit Airlines out of Atlanta which Dave is so thrilled about since he never has good experiences with off the track airlines. Which does not help my fear of flying either. But regardless of all the fears, it’s so important to us to be able to spend time with our son. I’m hoping to go back again in the spring and then the fall again and keep this up till he comes home. We are ever so thankful for the McHouls and Heartline and Maranatha Childrens home who are doing their part in preparing Frankie to live in an American home. There is a such a peace in this process knowing he is in the best possible hands we could have hoped for.