Please support children in Guatemala!

http://www.jcics.org/Guatemala5000.htm
Please support children in Guatemala by  contacting your senator and representatives!  Over 5000 children in Guatemala have homes waiting for them internationally.  Please ask your senator and representatives to put pressure on Guatemalan president, Oscar Berger, to do right by these children!  Join us in the fight to bring these children home!

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Unfortunate news and Hope for the Future

Hello all,
Apparently, I made the announcement about our daughter too soon. 
The day after accepting our referral, the US department of state announced that the Guatemalan president, Oscar Berger, had decided to cease all adoptions (even pending cases) on Jan. 1, 2008.  Since we were so new to Guatemala’s program, we would be completely unable to meet [...]

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Adjust your compass, please.

Instead of due east, we are now heading south.
As some of you all ready know, we have decided to adopt our first child from Guatemala.  We still want to adopt from Vietnam.  We plan to adopt from Vietnam.  However, we are thinking that our child from Vietnam will be our second child. 
The big news indicated [...]

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Not to be forgotten

It has been brought to my attention that some of my close friends and family may have felt forgotten by my previous post.  Basically, that post was meant to thank people online who surprised me with their kindness.
I would also love to thank my friends, family, and co-workers for being incredibly supportive as well.  A number of [...]

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I get by with a little help from my friends…

Recently on the APV yahoo group (an online support group for “Adoptive Parents of Vietnamese children), I decided to whine publicly.  I don’t really think of myself as much of a whiner or a complainer, but I have been increasingly frustrated with not knowing anything. 
Basically, I wrote exactly what I have been thinking and feeling [...]

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