What a day… Today started with Lanie not feeling good. Her tummy hurt possibly from the vaccines or the medicine I gave for the vaccines. Mauricio picked us up at 11:30 to go get her visa and to discuss with the US Embassy our issues with our previous attorney. When he arrived, I was holding …
Salt waterfall Salt Cathedral Today we visited the Salt Cathedral Outside of town. Wow! It’s amazing. This area mines most of the salt in the world. The Cathedral is a path of mines that were mined. In each mined area a different artist created a cross to depict a different portion of the story …
Today was much better. We spent the day doing appointments for the adoption (which all went well) and visiting places in Bogota. We went to the top of Mt. Monserrat via a cable car. Wow! You can see the entire huge city of Bogota and the mountains. We visited the Emerald museum which was very …
Being here with some of the other adoption kids in this house continues to be very hard. I’m disciplining other kids in order to maintain control of Lanie. These kids are used to being independent and parenting each other and they don’t make good parents for each other. However, I have seen a great improvement …
Today is Scott and I’s seventeenth wedding Anniversary. I love you Scottie! Scott and Alli enjoyed a day at the lake in Austin with his family. I have roses in my room so I’ll pretend they are for my anniversary! Here in Bogota, we have two full uninterrupted days his weekend and then the other …
Well… We made it here. It was a weird somewhat interesting with a few adventurous” moments type of day. Thankfully Vilma brought us to the airport and talked to all of those people who told us we has too many bags and who was this child with me. For a short domestic flight you can …
Today was Independence Day in the US, but for Lanie is was her Dependence Day! She is no longer an independent child without a family. She is officially our daughter. Today we had Sentencia which is when all papers are signed and the adoption is complete! Not only that but our awesome attorney waved her …
I was soooo excited to get up this morning and make a to-do list. I haven’t done that in over a month! After our regular routinue this morning, I began organizing stuff, doing laundry and getting ready to leave. Lanie was excited to hear that in two days we are getting on an airplane just …
Our hosts, Ivan and Vilma had us over for lunch again today. it was a nice time as always. I did try a new beverage called aquadentia? That is some strong stuff… Evedentially it is very popular here in Colombia. “Wow!” were my exact words after drinking some of it! The hosts asked me to …
When asked, “How are you?” An old friend of mine would always reply “One day closer to paradise”. Well… I can’t say Texas is paradise, but it sure does contain a lot of people I love so today I’m one day closer to being there! God is daily confirming his purpose in delaying us here …
