11.29.2009

Hanging on

Hello. Blog posts will probably be sporadic for more than obvious reasons.
We are having a tough adjustment period. Some of what we're living we expected and some of it, we did not. There's different degrees of suffering for all us, for different reasons. We are slowly discovering their little personalities. Suffice it to say, we did not have a honeymoon period, as happens in some adoptions.
Our paperwork entered the court system last Friday and the lawyer is hopeful that we'll get out this year. We sure hope so but if we do not, we'll have to firm up a plan for the long haul.
We have to take baby steps with everything. And we mean everything. We tried to go to mass today but we never made it. But we did have our first meal together and our longest stretch of time without conflicts, tantrums, interventions.
We probably had some nice pictures today but we haven't dowloaded them and still don't want to post many pictures. We miss everyone and continue to ask for prayers and good vibes our way, whichever is your preference.
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Por obvias razones, no estaremos escribiendo tan frecuentemente en este blog.
Nos ha tocado una semana dificil. Todos nos estamos ajustando. La mayoria de lo que estamos viviendo lo esperabamos pero hay unas cosas que nos han caido de sorpresa. Poquito a poco vamos descubriendo como son estos ninios. Estamos seguros de que todos estamos sufriendo, a diferentes niveles y por diferentes razones, pero, Dios mediante, saldremos adelante. Los dos mayores nos dicen mami y papi pero va a tomar tiempo y muchas otras cosas, para que sientan, en sus corazoncitos, que somos en realidad us mami y papi.
Nuestro caso entro a la corte el viernes pasado. La abogada se mantiene optimista de que si salgamos este anio. Aunque asi lo quisieramos y rezamos porque eso suceda, necesitaremos un plan por si no. De aqui, lo mas importante, es que el juez a quien le toco nuestro caso, firme la sentencia de adopcion.
En el menu para maniana esta conseguir un pediatra para Lulu. Ya se acabo una botella de jarabe y el resultado parece contraproducente.
Por favor, sigan rezando por nosotros para que esta semana sea menos pesada para todos, y para que que nos haya tocado una corte de la cual salgamos rapidito.
Los queremos y extraniamos mucho, a toda nuestra familia, como dice Pablo, y amigos.

2 comments:

Naomi said...

Estoy pensando en ustedes, Laura! Sé que estás haciendo todo bien. Solo tiempo, como sabes. <3

Dan and Karen said...

Hang in there - it will get easier or at least you'll become more accustomed to the chaos! :) We got a honeymoon with one of ours, but the other two were alot more work in the beginning. We expanded our family by 3 boys from Colombia two years ago and our lives have not been the same! Sending lots of prayers for your family.

Karen