Mission: Get Her Out Of That Crib!!!!!

I am honored to announce that we have committed to bring Isabelle  (known on Reece's Rainbow as Mariya) home.  Isn't she just precious?  

I received an e/m today from a lovely lady who is home just 4 weeks after adopting from the same orphanage little Isabelle lives.  I asked if she met her and her response was:  I'm so sorry to say that I didn't see Mariya much, even though she was in the same room as my Zhen. I think she spends much time in her crib.  I knew as soon as I read that - she was meant to be our daughter.  We are the FAMILY to get her out of that crib!!!  Bless her little heart!!

I had our Pediatrician look over her medical issues that Reece's Rainbow had listed.  Isabelle has a cataract in her left eye, our Pediatrician told us if she was born that way it is likely she will not have any vision with that eye.  Isabelle also has a heart condition and will most likely need heart surgery. 

I do want to THANK each and everyone of you who have left such wonderful comments about Lyla.  All of your Amazing Kind words!!!  How did we ever get so blessed with so much support?????  Wow!!!!

I have decided to keep our blog address the same and just add on to our blog title.  We will always be LUCKY TO LOVE LYLA!!!!  We are not giving up on her!!!  Our plan will be to bring her home in the Spring if she survives.  I don't know that I will be allowed to keep her picture up - But I will keep it on the side bar as long as I can. 

We did not get the chance to SAVE her yet but she most definitely  SAVED us!!!!!

Not sure what to say.....

We found out today that the Doctor's will not "risk" the surgery for sweet Lyla.  That poor little girl must be so sick.  With out the surgery she will not survive.  There is more to all of this but the bottom line is we can not bring her home as planned this year.  Her prognosis sounds very grim and I am having a very hard time comprehending it all.

Our hearts are broken and are dream came to an end tonight! 

We will have our dossier submitted for another little girl with Down syndrome - We will do this in Lyla's name!  She will not suffer for NOTHING!!!!! 

If Lyla gets well enough that she can have the surgery, it will be our plan to start this process again and adopt her in the spring.  We would then be so blessed to have 2 daughters with Down syndrome. 

I have tried to write this post for abut a 1/2 hour now and not sure it makes any sense but I hope you all understand.  This is probably one of the hardest things we have ever had to do. 

Please keep Lyla in your prayers, Please pray that she does not suffer another moment!!!!  Please pray that she knows we LOVE her and that she is not alone. 

I want to THANK Andrea from Reece's Rainbow and the Reece's Rainbow team who have all worked very hard trying to make this work.  I want to THANK all of YOU for your prayers!!!! 

GOD has a plan still, right????? 

No news yet

It's Tuesday night and we still don't know where we stand.  We are still holding on strong to the thought that Lyla will be home with us some day soon. 

We Love that little girl so much!!!!!  Even though this has been a pretty tough process, I would do it a million times over and over again just to have the chance to be her MOM!!!!

What a mess!!

We are in a mess!   I must admit, I feel a bit defeated!

Our social worker e/m'd us - she stated that I am not allowed to adopt as a married individual.  It's against New York State law.  So I e/m'd the Reece's Rainbow team ASAP and Andrea with the subject being "Help".  Andrea responded and was so nice to send an e/m to our social worker explaining the situation.  Our social worker was then willing to look in to it and she is now waiting for a call from New York State to see if I am allowed to adopt Lyla  - hopefully we will know more tomorrow. 

If she is not able to  approve me as a "married individual' to adopt Lyla and update our Home study stating that - We will not be allowed to adopt her!  That's That!!! 

So I again need help in prayer, Friends.  GOD is soooo Good and He opened this door for us - He will not CLOSE it!!!!!

Faith, Faith, Faith, Faith, Faith, Faith, Faith!!!!!!!! 

Thank you ALL!!!  Your support has been Amazing!!!  I am sure it is getting very old to read these negative posts but hang in there a little longer because we are bound to have some Super Good News one of these days!!!!

Dave and Another Little Girl

Unfortunately what we have to fix with our dossier is not at all what I expected.  My sweet, sweet husband is too old by 2 months to adopt Lyla!  Can you believe this?  There are ways around it - Thank GOD!!!  But it involves me adopting Lyla myself!  My husband is an amazing MAN - I love him with all my heart and all my soul!!  I never realized how this news would affect him.  I was just so happy that we could still adopt Lyla that I wasn't thinking about his feelings.  After I saw his face, oh my, this hurts him.  That he will not be able to legally adopt her together with me is so painful for him.  He is Happy that we still get to bring her home (GOD willing) but you can tell he is sad :(

So I have 8 new documents to sign, notarize, certify and apostille.  I have to have our home study ammended and that will be notarized, certified and apostilled too!  Hopefully then we will be able to submit our dossier and go meet our daughter.  Well the truth is, Dave does not even have to go to EE with me now.  This will be a very tough decision.  We would save so much money and he would be able to stay home with the kids.  But he would miss out on meeting his new daughter ASAP and  he does NOT like the idea of me going myself!  We have time to figure this all out!  

I want everyone to know we also have decided to have a plan, a plan that involves another child.  If Lyla goes to HEAVEN in the next few weeks we have decided that we should pick another little girl with Down syndrome that needs a home.  This is beyond difficult but we honestly feel this is the BEST thing for us to do right now.  It is important we prepare ourselves and all of our paperwork since new dossiers will not be accepted in November.  So as we make the changes for the 8 new documents we are also making changes to be able to adopt an older child if that is GOD's plan.   Zoya's mom sent me a wonderful e/m and this is one of the things she wrote:  "Maybe Lyla is the child he has planned for you, or maybe she is the child he planned to open your eyes to another child".  We do not know what will happen BUT we can make sure a child is SAVED no matter what!!  And really, that's all we CAN do!!!!!

I Love Lyla and I will continue to fight for her.  I will continue to do what ever it takes to bring her home to our family!!!!!  I will not GIVE UP ON HER EVER!!!!!!!



 

Ask and You Shall Receive!!!!

One of the biggest fears in this adoption process is that you might have to make a change to your dossier. A change in one of the documents means you have to re-do it, have it notarized, have it certified and then send to Albany to be Apostilled. Every document costs $13 and it is very time consuming. So the last thing you want to hear is that you have to re-do a document.



Well, I got an e/m today that we have to make some changes to our dossier. I am so excited!!! Since my e/m yesterday from Andrea I have been just a big fat mess. I have prayed for answers, guidance and that GOD would please let me help do something for Lyla ! I begged for HIM to help me with this complete horror of helplessness. HE ANSWERED!!!!! This is HIS plan!!! HE gave me something to do – fix our dossier. HE has allowed us more time. Basically I feel like he is saying “Fix your dossier and I will take care of the rest, Have patience and faith in ME”!!!


Of course!!! THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Other good news, Christina (Lyla’s prayer warrior) reached out to an organization called babyheart.com and they WANT to try and help with Lyla’s surgery!!! Praise the LORD!!! I gave it to Andrea from Reece’s Rainbow and she will pass it on along with some other contacts she has to our team across the big ocean.


ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE!!!!!

Outraged!!!!

I just don't get it!!!!  Lyla needs surgery to survive and she can't get it?????  Are you kidding????  So she lie in a crib suffering with a failing heart and NOTHING????  It is so not the life I know and understand.  I wont be able to comprehend this.  And, they are not able to expedite her clearance for adoption, so she will not be cleared until the first week of November.  So we can not submit until then.  We have the option of submitting now and choosing another child, BUT we will NOT give up on Lyla.  I made a promise to HER and I will KEEP that promise.  They do not believe she will make it until we can get there with out the surgery.

Andrea from Reece's Rainbow is doing everything she can to arrange surgery for her. 

So here I am again, asking and begging that you pray for this sweet angel.  That she get the surgery she needs to survive and then we will bring her HOME!!!  As planned!!!!!

All Mighty FATHER Please Hear Our Prayer!!!!! 

Knock that wall down!!!!!

The BIG Nasty vote was postponed!!!!!!  No stopping of adoptions in Eastern Europe today Friends!!!!!

What a relief!!!!

THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, we received confirmation that our facilitator has our faxes!!!  Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!

I am not a fan of faxing!!

I found out this morning that our facilitator never received our fax of 81 pages that I sent last Monday.  So I ran to work at 7:45 am today to re-fax.  I set the computer to re fax it knowing it would take about a 1/2 hour and I wanted it to be done before the office opened at 9:00.  I ran back home, showered and got ready to officially come to work.  When I got to work I checked on the fax and for some reason it was just on the 10th page - AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!  So finally it finished at 9:30.  I then got an e/m around 3pm that the fax file is too big and our facilitator can not open it!  Oh my!!!  So they asked that I break it up in to 3 or 4 groups so the file isn't so big.  So, I broke it up in to 8 groups and re faxed each group.  It got me all worked up, because all I can think of is sweet Lyla not having much time and I am wasting time fighting a fax machine????????  So now we wait to hear tomorrow if she was able to receive all the pages and then GOD willing I will be able to get approval to mail our dossier to EE.

Sorry just a little venting!!  I had so hoped I would of had approval to mail our dossier today so I feel like we are behind.  I do NOT like being behind or late.  Our little girl needs surgery to survive and I can not waste another SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for listening!!! 

We are coming Lyla, I PROMISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Dear FATHER, please continue to wrap her in YOUR arms and keep her safe and loved!!!!!!

Dossier!!!

I had mentioned a couple posts ago that I faxed 81 pages of our dossier to Eastern Europe.  Reece's Rainbow works with a group of wonderful people in the area where Lyla's orphanage is.  They review the faxes and make sure we don't have any mistakes before we mail our dossier for submission.  I have not heard back on our faxes yet, I hope to hear something tomorrow.  I received the last 2 pages of our dossier Apostilled from Albany on Friday, so I have everything ready to go!!!  This is so exciting!!!!  We are getting so close!!!!  So the next step would be to mail it off and they will translate everything and then hopefully submit our dossier to the SDA in a couple weeks.  After we are submitted we should receive a date to travel and meet our beautiful little girl!!!! 

It's all so crazy!!!  It was just 3 months ago that we started this journey and you just never ever think you will get to this point.  The point where you send off all these beautiful documents (the ticket to your waiting Angel).  I think Satan pops in his head quite frequently when you are trying to Adopt.  I have noticed this with our other Adoptions too!  But this one a little more.  Everything I did for this adoption brought a fear of "oh my what if.........", I am typically not a "what if..." kind of girl.  Well, I guess I am that kind of girl now.  Satan is just a Big Fat Bully and he is outraged at the LOVE that so many people are sending Lyla's way.  He really should just give up because no one is backing down!!!! 

Again, I want to Thank all of you for all the support!!!  This has been an Amazing journey that we feel truly blessed to be a part of.  So many wonderful people Praying for our sweet girl and for us.  It's just all so wonderful!!!!   Oh my, I just can't wait to hold her and tell her this story.  The story of all the people that LOVE her and have prayed for her.  The story of people not giving up on her ever.  She lives in a place where people look at her different because she has Down syndrome.  People that may think her life is not worthy.  People that feel she is not deserving of a life saving surgery.  Yet, people on this side of the Big water are storming Heaven with prayers and they haven't even met her!!!  Our worlds are different and all though it makes me almost insane to think about these things - I know this is all they know.  They don't understand, they cant comprehend what a blessing this little girl is.  They don't understand how she will thrive with Love and Nurturing!!!!!  They are confused that Americans want to adopt a "damaged" child.  We will not change the way they think - I know this! 

But, We will - Thanks to all of YOU - change the LIFE of one Little Girl!!!!

THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!!!!!!

It's been a bit of a week

Just to give everyone a little insight on what has been going on here.

Last Wednesday, Jason our 6 year old foster son left our house to go to a higher level of care.  Jason had been with us for 2 years and 5 months.  We LOVE him very much!!!!!  This was very hard for all of us but we all know he needs help and we strongly believe he will now get it.  He wants desperately to be a "good boy" and we believe his new home will help him figure it all out!!!  We Miss Him!!!

Last Thursday we found out that Lyla was not doing well. 

Friday my sister was admitted to the hospital.  She is doing better now!  Thank GOD!!!!!

Saturday Sara was sick with a high fever and she was miserable lasting 3 days.

Monday Owen got sick with a high fever and he was miserable lasting 3 days.

Tuesday Taylor got sick - same symptoms.

Wednesday night Taylor was in a car accident - she was hit while driving.   She seemed to be fine that night but Thursday morning was a different story.  We brought her to the Doctor's and she was sent for a Cat scan of Head and Abdomen and Xray of her neck.  Her pupils were dilated and they were sluggish to respond to light.  I was so scared - she was so uncomfortable - it was awful!!!!!!!  So she was diagnosed with a concussion and the xray showed mild torticollis.  She is doing much better today!  Oh My, Thank YOU GOD!!!!!!!

Thursday Nick got sick with high fever (104.5), vomiting and muscle pains.  Consequently he  is seeing a Pediatric Rheumatoid Arthritis Doctor in Rochester on Monday.  Some of his blood work came back elevated at his physcial in August.  He has had painful legs and feet since he was little.  I always just thought growing pains.  But the last few months he has started to walk like he is 90 years old.  He has a very difficult time going down stairs, so we talked to our Pediatrician about it at his well child exam in August.  She did some blood work and that is why he was referred to a specialist. 

Today is Friday and Nick is feeling better, Tay is feeling much better, Owen and Sara are all better.  My sister is doing better and Jay is adjusting better to his new house.  And of course our little princess Lyla is still living!  Everything works out in time!!!  Thank you Again Father!!!!

Phew!!!  That was a week!!!!  I feel like I was just a big stress mess about everything.  It seemed like we couldn't get any answers on Lyla and everyone at home was just falling apart and I had LOST control.  Well, I am back in the pilot seat and ready to do what ever it takes to get that beautiful little girl home where she belongs.  I am not sure what I need to do but I know GOD will lead me.  I  know with out a doubt that I was meant to be Lyla's Mom and like I said in June - I will do what ever it takes to get her home. 

I MEANT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH LYLA!!!!!!! STAY STRONG SWEETIE!!!!! 

Update

This is the e/m i just got from Andrea:

I just got word from Yulia that Lyla is still living, she is at the "rehab"

ward, whatever that is....but that it will be many weeks yet before she is
cleared for adoption. Why, I am not sure. I asked her to do whatever she
needs to, as Lyla may not live long enough for that to happen!
So now I wait to find out what she can do to expedite that whole process now
as well.

Thank you GOD she is living!!!!  Thank you for all the prayers!!!!!!!!!!  Ok, now we have to pray that they "clear her for adoption" - what ever that means!!!!  Then that she can stay strong until we can get her the surgery she needs!!! 

OH PLEASE GOD!!!!  PLEASE????  PLEASE??????  PLEASE???????  On my knees BEGGING!!!!

Nope, nothing yet.....

Again, sorry to say that we have nothing to report.  Tomorrow will be 1 week that we found out Lyla was in the hospital not doing very well.  One Week of dreading the worst and praying for the BEST!!!! 

Ok, tomorrow I am sure we will hear something - We Have To!!!!!!!!

No News = Good News????

Not sure that no news means good news - but I am going with it!!! 

Again, thank you so much for all the support.  Everyone has been so GREAT!!! 

It is true that I am hanging on by a very very thin thread BUT thanks to all of you, all the e/m's, all the posts, all the comments - I am reminded of how lucky Lyla is and how lucky we are to know such wonderful people!!!!!  It eases the pain!!!!! 

So THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

I close this post praying that my next post will have a wonderful update on our sweet princess!!!!!!!

No News Yet

I am so sorry - we don't have an update yet!  So many of you are checking our blog for an update and I wish I had one to give you!! 


Thank you again for all the support - it's AMAZING!!!!  We feel so BLESSED even though we are stuck in an awful yucky place right now. 


I faxed 81 documents to Eastern Europe last night for approval before we send our dossier.  We went to Mayville NY, to have our last 2 documents certified and I Fed Exed them to Albany.  I included a Fed Ex air bill so Albany with Fed Ex right back.  Maybe we will be able to mail our complete dossier to EE at the end of this week????? 


We just need that little beautiful big eyed dolly to hang in there and FIGHT!!!!!  Mommy and Daddy are coming sweet girl and we love you so very much!!!!!!!!

The Golden Ticket Has Arrived!!!

Ok, some very good news - our "Golden Ticket" came today!!!!!


We are so close - so very, very close.  It is all going to work out - I just know it!!!!!!!


Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!!  Yes, GOD is GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No Update Yet!!

Sorry - no update yet!!  Keep Praying Please!!!!

Thank you!!!

Thank You Christina and Family

FOR HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU TO GUARD IN ALL YOUR WAYS!!


PSALM 91:11

our kids made most of the crafted angels....

Christina sent me the above in an e/m - it's been 20 minutes since I opened this e/m and I just can't seem to stop crying.  Our FATHER can not deny the requests we have sent HIS way.

WOW - LYLA IS ONE BLESSED LITTLE PRINCESS!!!!!!!!!

Hoping for an update tomorrow!!

I am feeling much better today thanks to all of YOU!!!  My good friends Christina, Patty, Sara, Tracey,Julie and Sylvia!  Oh my, these friends I have never met but they are simply the BEST!!!  And all of you that have been posting comments - Thank you so very much!!!  All of you that have kept our sweet Angel in your prayers - Thank you, Thank you!!!!!  (Of course I have met Sarah - I am just not thinking straight)


I just know we will hear good news tomorrow - I know it!!!  My husband said to me last night "you need to relax, she is fine and we are going to bring her home".  Wow, it's just that easy!!!  He is right - we have not heard otherwise so this is the plan as it has been since the beginning of June.  We are on a mission to save a beautiful big blue eyed dolly from EE - and that's what we are going to do!!!!!!!!


I Love You Lyla - We ALL Love YOU!!!!!!!!  I can't wait to tell you the story of all the people that have reached out to our Heavenly Father in your name!!!!!! 

What can I do????

My mind is racing constantly - I can't get it together.  My heart is screaming for me to do something.  I just can't shake it off.   I love a little girl who is in trouble and I can't do a thing to HELP her.  This doesn't make any sense!!   I remind my self constantly by chanting, GOD is GOOD, GOD is GOOD, GOD is GOOD!!  I know this will all  my heart.  Why can't I just calm down then and allow HIM to take over.  This is HIS plan and I know this so why can't I relax just a little bit.  Is GOD telling me to do MORE????  Is this why I am feeling this way???  When I get consumed and obsessed with something that is usually the case, so maybe I am suppose to do something.  What???  I need some help here, what can I do?????

I keep looking at Leeza (2) on the Reece's Rainbow site.  I went back and read a post the Sanchez family posted months ago about Leeza.  I am remembering stories Sarah (Zoya's Mom) told us about Leeza.  Does GOD want me to bring Leeza home too?  Is HE telling me that our sweet Lyla has been given her wings and is with HIM and now we need to look at Leeza?  I remember looking at sweet Leeza in the beginning of this journey  before I found Lyla and I thought I never would be able to care for her properly.   I don't understand all of this and I feel consumed with guilt that I am even looking at another child. 


Yes, I am having a hard time!


I love you Lyla!!!!!

Still waiting

Well friends, since it is past 9:00 where sweet Lyla is, it doesn't look like we will have an update.  We probably wont hear anything until Monday.  This will for sure be the longest weekend of our lives!!

We will stay strong for her and continue to storm HEAVEN with Prayer!!!!

I cherish what Christina wrote in a comment:
And she is surrounded by HIS ANGELS, they hold her tight:

FOR HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU TO GUARD IN ALL YOUR WAYS!! psalm 91.11

I Love You Lyla!!!!!!

"I Doctor"

Owen was very curious yesterday why I was so sad. 

I told him "Lyla is sick buddy and that makes Mommy sad"

He said "Lyla go Doctor?"

I said "Yes, buddy she needs a Doctor"

He said "I Doctor"

He went and grabbed his Doctor kit and he is ready to go SAVE his sister!!!!

I took this picture with my phone and the lighting was so poor but I just wanted to capture the moment!!

No News Yet

We have not heard anything yet on our sweet little ANGEL!!!

BUT, my wonderful friend Christina did some research and sent me this e/m:

 I just checked babyheart.com and do you know what?? They have a team leaving for EE TOMORROW!!!! and they will stay in country till the 25th of september!!

We are holding on to every bit of HOPE!!! 

Again, Thank you so much for all the prayers and all the kind words!!!  I read them over and over and over and over again - they are so comforting!!!  I just hope with all my heart she feels all the LOVE being sent her way!!!!

I Love You Lyla!!!!!

Amazing Support

Thank all of YOU!!!  Your words and prayers for our sweet girl mean the world to us!! 

Andrea from Reece's Rainbow is trying to do everything in her power to find out what is going on.  She has reached out to make sure money is not an issue if she requires surgery.  She has been very honest and has let us know that our sweet ANGEL might have already went to HEAVEN.

We hope to hear more tomorrow - Oh my, I need to hear more tomorrow!!!

I wish I was with her!  If she is to go to HEAVEN now, I wish I could be the one that hands her to our FATHER!!!!!!!!  From one set of loving arms to another - that's how it should BE!!!!!

I love you Lyla - and keep fighting if you can sweetie!!! We will continue to fight here for you!!!   If you are too tired and the fight is not possible - well then princess go HOME to HIM!!!!

We are so Lucky to Love Lyla!!!!

SAD

I just got an e/m that our little Lyla is in the hospital not doing well - they are not sure she will survive.  Or if she will even be well enough to be adopted.

PLEASE PRAY FOR HER!!!!!  PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh GOD - I NEED YOU NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

Pray, Pray, Pray

I just received an e/m that you stop and read over and over again.  The e/m came from Reece's Rainbow and the subject was "Important".

There is going to be a vote in Eastern Europe in a couple weeks to STOP all adoptions from the part of EE where  Lyla's orphanage is!

So what can we do???????  - WE CAN PRAY!!!!!!

Please Pray for all the orphans that this could affect!!!!  All those precious little angels that wont get home to a forever family.........

Please, PRAY FOR ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zippity Do Dah

I was so scared to call USCIS today but I finally did and I was told:

"Your case was recommended for APPROVAL on September 3rd"

Oh my, Oh my!!!!  Thank you GOD!!!!

So now a supervisor reviews and we should have the "GOLDEN TICKET" next week!!!!!

Lyla's FIRST Birthday is November 14th - maybe just maybe we will be able to share and celebrate with her that day!!!!! 

Is it a Dream????

Sometimes this process just seems like a dream.   I mean how can it all be real???  Are we really going to EE to meet our daughter?  Will I really be able to hold her, kiss her and tell her how much I love her??   Am I really going to be able to see my husband light up when he lays eyes on her????  Are we really going to get to bring her home???   How can this all be true??? 


So I often go to blogs of families that are there right now!!  And sure enough, they are in Eastern Europe and they have pictures to prove it!!!  They are loving up their new little one(s) and they have pictures to prove this too!!!!  Then the most Amazing part - I have seen proof of these beautiful babes land in the good ole USA!!!!  The before and after pictures of these children are nothing short of a MIRACLE.   From empty eyes - to eyes full of life.  From pale pale skin - to rosie cheeks.  From blank looks - to looks of pure joy!!  From shaved heads - to gorgeous hair.  From malnourished bodies - to thriving with strength!!!  Then the pictures of these children smiling and the videos of them now laughing - WOW!!!!!!!

Ya know what?  This is not a dream, I will - one day soon - meet Lyla!!!  I will shower her with all the Love that she has missed her first 10 months of life.  I will be her MOM!!!!!!

USCIS Update

I spoke with our officer this morning - have I mentioned how sweet she is????!!!!  Well, she is Sooooo Sweet!!!!

Anyways, she said it took 3 officers to find our file!!  Well, they found it and she reviewed it and said "you are in a very good place".  She said she would be done reviewing it this weekend and if our home study is perfect (please pray that it is) she would recommend approval and send it to her supervisor for final approval on Tuesday.  She said It would probably take 10 days to receive the Golden Ticket!!!!  OH MY - THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  She asked for my phone number in case she needed to ask me anything!!!

I was crying of course and I told her how absolutely grateful I will always be that she answered my call yesterday!!!!!!!

We are getting closer to meeting our Sweet Daughter and bringing her home to her Forever Family!!!!

We Love you LYLA!!!!!!!!

We have an OFFICER!!!!!

Thank you GOD!!!!!!

I called the USCIS and spoke with a super sweet lady willing and wanting to help!  I explained the situation, we want desperately to adopt a little girl from EE that has Down syndrome and congenital heart disease.  Our application has been sitting on a shelf for 4 weeks and we love this baby and want her to come home.   Not only did she listen but she said "I am sending for your file right now"!! 

 OH MY, FINALLY!!!!!!!!!  WE HAVE AN OFFICER!!!!!!!  AND SHE IS SUPER SWEET!!!!!!

I will be forever grateful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lyla

I LOVE this little girl so much and it is driving me insane that I just can't go get her!  This is just so hard on all of our hearts!  Our hands are tied - there isn't a darn thing we can do to get this process moving.  We just wait and wait while our daughter lays in a crib all alone.  It all just seems so unfair!  I understand that USCIS is busy - I promise I do!!!  But, I don't understand why my daughter has to be alone when she has 7 family members waiting to LOVE her!!!  And what about her little heart????   She has 2 heart conditions and these need to be addressed ASAP!!!   AAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!  I will not be at peace until I have her in my arms and I know she is safe!!!! 

Please Help Us and Pray that the USCIS will approve our application soon!!!!!  Thank YOU!!!!!