3 years for #3!

Well, it is official: HG is now part of our family! The PGN/Attorney General's Office has approved the case and the US Embassy did indeed issue THE document we waited 13 months to obtain! It's been a LONG 3 years and we are SO ready to have her home, as you all know. The wrap up steps are already underway. I don't have an exact "time of arrival" for her, but my guesstimate is before the end of the year! I'm hopeful to have her home by Thanksgiving, but that might be wishful thinking! Wouldn't that be a GREAT Thanksgiving Day to have all THREE DAUGHTERS at the same table on such a day? Oh my! I'll keep you posted as some of the major milestones are achieved!
As you can see, we have updated our "Chip In" widget to the right here. In humility, again, we are in a position of needing help with our fees. If you've been around for a while, you know that we have had to pay, pay, pay during this journey, spending about 6 times the amount we expected to spend on this adoption. We've wiped out our savings account, sold what we can sell, borrowed where we can borrow, and we're still short. The amount requested on the "Chip In" is just a minimum to what we can expect to pay. In other words, I know it will be at least the $5500. If you are so inclined to help with HG's fees, thank you for your generosity. We appreciate it.
If you are new to our blog or story, please feel free to go back and read more about us. In a nutshell, we began the adoption of HG in Fall 2007 when she was almost 3 years old. Our adoption of her is not about us having 3 children but about following God's call to our family. HG has many developmental delays and special needs--she is developmentally only about 2 1/2 years old even though she will be 6 years old in January 2011. She has extreme vision issues (she's technically legally blind) and we believe that many of her developmental delays stem from the fact that she has such poor vision. She began walking at 3 1/2 years of age and while she does have good comprehension (in Spanish), she speaks only in single words, not sentences. We definitely will have our work cut out for us but we are EAGER for this part of the challenge and journey with HG to begin.