Election Results

Colom won the Presidential election run-off in Guatemala on Sunday. He was the slightly better of the two so we hope that it's a good thing for that country. The Vice-President is a cardiologist who worked in Houston for many years and was trained at Baylor. We have a lot of hope he can dispel the rampant rumors of Americans adopting babies to harvest their organs. I can't even believe I'm writing that sentence. Sheesh. Anyway, let's hope these two make for a "better" Guatemala.

New Year's at the Westin!

David and I just booked tickets to spend New Year's with Natalie! We're so excited! We are spending Christmas in Dallas and the Grandmas were nice enough to offer to babysit the boys while we are gone. We still need to confirm hotel reservations, but hopefully that won't be a problem. We just feel the need to be there on New Year's Eve. We don't know what will happen at year's end yet, but at least we'll be there no matter what is decided.

Out of Family Court.... BUT

The social worker made a typo in the report! UGH!! So that means we didn't get our file into PGN. Under normal circumstances this would NOT be a big deal to me at all. It just goes back to the social worker so it can be fixed and takes a week or so. But that one week makes our time in PGN go from 8 weeks until 7 weeks before year end and I'm afraid that won't be enough time to get out by New Year's (assuming we were previo-free, which most people are not). I don't want to be what I fear most - literally sitting at the top of the heap on Dec. 31 for signature then everything shutting down. Please God, let the grandfathering amendment pass.

I want to thank my agency though because a typo means a previo (kick-out) in PGN and I am thankful they caught it. I don't want my gratitude for them to be overshadowned by my whine-fest. :)

We exited on October 30.

THANK YOU!!

Here are links to the letters signed by various Senators and Congressman on behalf of our Guatemala 5000 initiative. One letter is to the President of Guatemala and one letter is to the head of UNICEF. If your Senator or Congressman signed the letters, please let them know it is appreciated. If they didn't sign, please let them know you are very upset.

Thank you for your hard work in contacting everyone and making aware our situation!


http://www.jcics.org/UNICEF%20Letter.pdf

http://www.jcics.org/BERGER%20Letter.pdf