Okay not sure that is the appropriate term but the municipality is still not up and running, therefore we wait some more! I actually talked with another family who was approved by PGN in October and the municipality was striking then.
Okay here comes the religious side of me, Lord please let our children come home!
On a postive note we have been registered with the Central Authority so when the time comes we will be ready to enter PGN.
Our attorney is sending another runner to see if the Municipality is open. We are hoping for some good news!
Yes, I went out again to pick up another birthday gift and ended up with more shoes and outfits for Auri and lots of cupcake stuff for her 2nd birthday party in July!!! I want so much for her to be here with us for her birthday, I guess maybe I should be shopping for extra prayers or miracles.
Everyone please say a prayer that the municipality re-opens Monday and Auri's birth certificate and mother's identification documents can be picked up and added to the file and finally submitted to the Embassy!
I am tired of being sad when I shop and think of her, we need some good news Monday!!!
"Today I send someone to the Municipality of Huehuetenango and was informed that the Municipality [building] was closed. But that elsewhere in town there were two people [presumably from municipality] answering the questions of those who were seeking answers to questions about the municipality and they only told him that the "Corporacion Municipal" [municipal board] is still not meeting there and that possibly Monday 28 they will be meeting in the municipal building and that then they would issue documents. Once again on Monday I will send the same person to confirm what is happening."
PRAY HOPE SCREAM - DO WHATEVER TO SEND THE MESSAGE THAT WE NEED THIS PLACE TO RE-OPEN SO ELVIA/AURI CAN BE WITH HER MOMMA and DADDY SOON!!!
After calling the Grand Tikal and learning they are just completely booked up due to the holiday we ended up booking a room with the Westin! Hopefully the weather will be warm enough that we can enjoy the pool. Then it will be lots of momma and dadda bonding in our hotel room. Can't wait! 
Well we are having some delays in our adoption regarding getting information from a certain Municipality in order to move our case to the Embassy. So I am going to stop take a much needed break from blogging as there is nothing new to report.
Our agency is working very hard and I am sure they are ready to kill me and my million questions, sounds like the Muncipality will be re-opening next week and hopefully by the end of January the attorney will have everything he needs and be submitting our case to the Embassy....keep your fingers crossed!
We are set to visit again March 21-25th! However I am still deciding on a hotel!
Tonight Brent and I set out on a mission to find mix clips for our niece Sidney .... of course these things are sold out everywhere! So as we run from store to store and Brent decides to leave me in Burlington by myself as I check out strollers (I am not sure what stroller I want yet although I think I have narrowed it down) I end up coming out with the cutest little polka dotted dress (& two other outfits and bibs!). I always encourage him to stay with me b/c he ends up talking me out of everything but he felt the need to go to Dick's Sporting Goods.
So our last stop is Target...okay I love Target and esp the baby closeouts! I could have bought a million things but of course Brent talked me down to just a wooden Eddie Bauer high chair for $60. Of course the one I really wanted was slightly different but I think I can live with the different fabric for a savings of $60. Then as we are driving home I realize I had a$5 coupon in my purse...oh well! Too far to drive back and have them take it off!
We were trying to decide if we should even get a high chair but those booster space savers are just too bulky - I would then have to worry about moving it from chair to chair so I think this high chair will work well for us.
Hopefully soon we will be on our way to Guatemala for another wonderful visit! We found decent priced tickets but our hotel the Grand Tikal is booked! :-( We are waiting for our agency to email us some other recommendations.
This from Guatadopt.com
Dateline Air Date - January 20
I just spoke with the producer of the long awaited Dateline NBC piece. The story will air on Sunday, January 20th.
First of all, for those of you with adopted children old enough to comprehend the show, you may wish to consider taping it or watching it without your children present. I am not at liberty to discuss the exact content of the show, nor do I know al of it. But some of it, IMHO, could be detrimental for children from Guatemala to see if they are old enough to understand it, but not old enough to put it into perspective.
In addition to the broadcast, Dateline will also be devoting some of its website to the Guatemala Adoption story. That won't go live likely until the show airs. Their programmers are hard at work right now building some sort of page where families can submit pictures of their kids and their stories. Once I have more info on that, and the URL, we will post it.
Lastly, I'd like everyone to realize upfront that this will not be a glowing story about the beauties and positives of Guatemalan adoptions. No media organization could do a story on Guatemalan adoptions and keep it all positive. Most of the story (which I have not seen) will most likely not be positive. However, I am very optimistic that all sides will be covered and the perspective, if not the ratio of air time, will be balanced. So be prepared for that.
Guatadopt did aid Dateline's producer with this story. Troy will be making his network television debut.... Realize that what we have found with the media is that while helping them does not make it a story we'd write, it does impact the net result. I have seen how talks I've had with reporters don't up with lots of quotes in their finished stories, but they do influence the overall tone of the story. So in short, everyone will obviously be free to criticize us for participating in this, but know that we did it knowing full well what the end result would be, with realistic expectations. Posted by Kevin at January 10,
Central Authority Announced!
Today, PGN published information about the new Central Authority.
It is located at
32nd street
9-34 zone 11
Colonia Las Charcas, Guatemala City.
I am so frustrated with our adoption. Unfortunately our attorney has not gotten the paperwork from the municipality yet. Hopefully he will have it by the weeks end. I just hate this waiting! To think that we had our documents in to him at the beginning of Nov and here we are Jan...thats 2 mos..we could already be in PGN and waiting 8 weeks for her to get home. I pray she is home for her 2nd birthday and first family beach vacation (that we are going on over her birthday!). PRAY PRAY PRAY for us!!!
By the way my moms surgery went well. Her right knee was a lot worse and she ended up getting two different sized knees...they said they wanted to give her what fit best! She was pretty loopy and tired today so she tried to talk but would just fall asleep. Please continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers.
My mom (Maureen) is having double knee replacement surgery tomorrow! Please pray that everything goes smoothly..no PERFECTLY!!! I am a little freaked out over this surgery but she says she has to do it as she has arthritis very badly in both knees and she needs to be able to chase after Elvia/Auri when she gets home! (okay we are torn on the name again...I am calling her Auri, Brent is calling her Elvia. Regardless of the name she will be loved and will be a HEINRICH!) When my mom had a hysterectomy back in 2002 - she gave us a scare with a small blood clot...the docs promise they will monitor this and she is on coumadin...but in any event I still worry! My mom is my best friend and I don't know what I would do without her! Love ya Mom...I know you are reading this!
Well say an extra prayer for her tonight and tomorrow morning!
Just talked with our agency and if our family is not complete by June, Brent will be traveling to Guatemala to foster Elvia...I am soooo jealous!!! But lets pray it does not come to this and she is home sweet home - way before that! We miss her soo much!
Brent and I don't know what to do? We miss our little girl so much...but it is just so expensive to fly... I fear that we fly down to visit, get back home and have to fly out again. Things are really getting tight as we now are paying for our Kaz adoption loan that we have nothing to show for.
In the event they do halt our adoptions, we plan to have Brent go and foster in Antigua for the summer, and I will travel and stay with them for about a week. So I guess maybe we will wait a few more weeks before booking tickets for Brent's spring break.
As for the lost money for our first adoption...you can claim a failed domestic adoption but not an international one on your taxes. Technically we did not lose any money for international fees so I am trying to see if I can claim the 8850 under the adoption credit...since it went to a US agency that closed down...what do you think????
January 4, 2007
Joint Council can confirm that PGN is no longer processing adoption cases with the exception of those that have already been approved. All other aspects of adoption processing have been stopped.
This is a result of the new adoption law requiring the registration of cases with the Central Authority prior to cases being reinitiated. Joint Council continues to advocate for a position solution to the situation.
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