We're Headed to Rwanda!

So... I know it has been nearly a year since I have posted, but it looks like it is a good thing I didn't erase this whole blog out of despair and frustration in the interim. We are going to need it again to keep you all updated on our progress with adopting our son in Rwanda!

There were times over the last year (and a year before that) when I thought I would literally die from the agony of never being able to become a mother again... and now after a complete miracle, we have been approved in Rwanda by the Minister in charge of adoptions. We have, through the Grace of God found a son who is waiting for us in the Home of Hope orphanage. Bless the Sisters who prayed on this choice they faced of which of the orphans was to be united with our family. While they first told us there were "no" babies who were young... that they were all 1 year or more... they apparently had something shift, because when my Kigali friend Julie went to meet the Mother Superior, she introduced a boy of 5 months, found in the bush, and named Pacifique, meaning "peace". I knew it was him, immediately.

And so we have a new lawyer who is an angel earthside... she is efficient and professional and extremely timely and communicative. What more could you ask for? She is finishing up all the details and readying for our arrival in Kigali on Monday.

So soon we will be meeting our new son, a boy who gets a second chance at love and safety and family and who gives a family orphaned somehow by the loss of their own son a second chance at life and love and family.

Stay tuned... we will try to update daily!