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More Paperwork!!

We are so close yet so far away!!  We have just two more little pieces of paper to get turned in and then we were told only TWO weeks for a completed home study!  WHOOOOHOOOOO!!!

We checked on our donations status through our church and we have received some love, THANK YOU!!  Your love will be paying for the translator and will get us started on the actual costs in Haiti.

We know the economy is tight and we understand that your wallet might be being tugged at from different directions.  We simply ask that if your heart is tugging towards Haiti and adoption that you would consider giving to our adoption fund.  We have T-Shirts you can actually purchase for your donation, you can give a tax deductible donation trough our church or you can send checks directly to us.

Our kids are so excited to come home!!  We are diligently fund raising and working on paperwork!!  Please consider helping in bringing these Heaven Sent Haitians home.

In Him,
The Colson's

Happy Birthday Monique!

Our beautiful Monique turns 11 today!  We are so sad to not be with her but so blessed there is a team in Haiti who can celebrate with her!

Please take a moment if you will and donate to bringing her home.




In Him,
The Colson's

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Let's Make it Rise!

Monique turns 11 tomorrow!!! We are hoping for some birthday donations...

Here is our thermometer...  Let's make it rise!!






You can always check back at http://www.colsonjams.blogspot.com/ to see the progress of our donations, to donate and to just keep up with the Colson's.  You can also become a fan of our facebook page Heaven Sent Haitians.

Please let us know if you would like a t-shirt with your donation of $18 or more.

Thank you in advance your continues support!

The Colson's

T-Shirt Wars - Let's Celebrate!!

 The T-Shirt wars have begun...  Pink is winning by a stretch but Amanda is winning by a mile!!

Yes, Amanda's friends are putting mine, Steve and Joshua's friends to shame!!!  

Neither here nor there...  Monique is about to have a  birthday and we are hoping to have sold ALL the t-shirts by then.  Can you help out so we can celebrate BIG for her birthday? 

Our goal is to sell the remaining T-shirts by October 15th - Monique will turn 11 that day and we would love to reach a financial goal on that day too!

T-Shirts are only $15, you can pay in person, by check or through our paypal link right here on our blog!! Please include a little extra for shipping.  ;o)

Thank you in advance for supporting our Heaven Sent Haitian adoption fund!!

In Him,
The Colson's

It has been a while...   First we want to remind everyone we still have plenty of T-Shirts!! 

We have had two more AWESOME phone calls with the kids.  The most amazing thing I found in the last call was I immediately recognized who I was talking to!  It was like the kids were on vacation with Uncle Brent and gave Mom a call!  I love it!  Opening night of our football season, it was perfect timing!

The stories of the kids are great!  They seem to poor in and then slow down...  We are in a drought and are feeling it deeply.  The conversations are constant about how we can speed up "red tape"!  We put pressure on ourselves and then Amanda and Joshua are just as eager as we are!  We can say that our home study should finally be in the final stages!  Hopefully we will have it back in about 2 weeks and then off to the translator!  We will be able to resubmit our A600 which now requires the home study be submitted with the application.  Then it is waiting for our finger print date and...  There were a few forms you could run simultaneously but it seems times have changed a bit and well we get to wait.

There is a new law going up for vote in Haiti to allow children to go straight to passport and then home once their paperwork has successfully been through IBESR.  This is several weeks if not months off the waiting period!  We are on our knees praying for this to be passed quickly!!

We have met a few new friends along this adoption process.  Some are adopting from various countries, some from Haiti and a couple who are adopting from the orphanage.  We are asking for prayer for all these families.  All are slated to bring their children home before us so we ask that you pray for us as we wait patiently for ours!  God is always on time, He is never late nor is He early.  Help us see this clearly.  When I say us, that is all of us.  We are not sure ow much of this adoption process Monique, Junior and Frantz understand.  As children are going home and they are staying are praying they know their turn will come too.

We do thank you for your support in prayer, those who have purchased t-shirts and those who have just generously donated.  So far God as provided 50/50 for our adoption and we are so grateful.  We will continue to covet your prayers in our journey.

You are God's best!
Blessings,
The Colson's

Our Kids in Video

Our kids sent us a video!!! 

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/video/video.php?v=515630377497&ref=notif&notif_t=video_tag

Thank you Katie Erie for such a blessing!!!

Missing Haiti

Yes, another team has had the pleasure of spending a week with our kids!  Oh, how we miss them! We miss Haiti!! We love the pictures and the wonderful stories!!  We are being blessed with three awesome Heaven Sent Haitians from what we hear!

There are not words describe how we long to snuggle on the couch and watch what becomes their favorite movies.  We are just curious what lunch box they might pick out or what their favorite colors are.  There comes a point that the wonder becomes a longing, an ache in your heart.  When we go shopping we wonder...  Not just the girls either!!  Steve and Josh are even finding themselves saying "hey look, I wonder if ______ will like this?"  We have been pretty good at NOT buying anything.  Well, there is the shirt we got Monique and the cool hoodie we just found for Frantz.  Hey they were on clearance...  I am sure over te next several months we will no longer be able to control our wants for their needs.  They need clothes, toys, lunch boxes, etc...  Right?

Lord, we pray we don't have to wait longer than what feels like forever!

Amanda, Josh and I were able to talk with Junior on the phone last Thursday.  He has such an excitement in his voice.  He wants us to come visit but doesn't understand we have to pay for the adoption 1st then if there is money leftover we will visit.  We don't want to have to tell him that, we just want to go!!  He is a special young man!

Nous remen Monique, Junior and Frantz!

Quiet

Everything is too quiet.  The forms are filled out, we are waiting...  And by forms I mean FORMS!!

Josh is going back to public school this year!  This was a family decision for many reasons.  I am not sure I am ready for this but he is and he will be fine.  This I think is responsible for at least the loss of 1/4 acre of forest...

Amanda is dual enrolling...  I am not sure I am ready for this either!  Yes, this means my highly intelligent, independent, strong willed beauty will be attending both High School and College.  This I am sure is responsible for at least the loss of an additional 1/2 acre of forest...

Adoption anyone?  Yes, we have filled out the home study paperwork, the I600A, I600, 864, the request forms for birth certificates, and ALL the other forms for the "certified" copies of our past.  This is surely responsible for at least another acre of lost forest...

To the Colson family it is ALL worth it!  We do apologize to the folks who fear our World is coming to an end due to carelessness.  We would have preferred WAAAYYYY less paperwork but this was out of our control.  We did plant 3 new trees on our property...

We look forward to the next few months.  They will be too quiet for me.  Amanda will be all too busy with skating, school and working.  Joshua will be at school all day and I will miss him on my days off.  With the paperwork done for all 5 kids and their "stuff" I will just have to fill my silence with rearranging and reorganizing.  These two things Steve, Amanda and Joshua hate for me to do if they are not here to guard "their things".  What else is a Mom in waiting to do?  Just what I thought, clean, re-organize, donate to goodwill and the cycle starts over and over and over.  I am not sure a Moms job is ever done.  I know that this will help my time speed by and it will help us to be ready!!

Monique, Jinyò and Frantzy Frantz will hopefully be "home" by next spring and they will surely help to fill my rearranging and reorganizing time!

We think of the kids every day and we just can't wait to bring them HOME!  When the kids get home, we will plant more trees!

Blessings!
p.s. don't forget to buy a t-shirt!

Paperwork Plunger

We are sitting waiting on paperwork.  We are helpless, at the mercy of New Mexico's Bernalillo county court clerk. BIG sigh...  We would have a complete home study if they would just work.  I called yesterday to check on the progress and they said they had been behind 8-10 weeks and because my request was only 6 weeks ago I had to wait another 2 weeks before they would even check to see if they  received our request.  Really??
Does anybody know how to get a lazy government to move?
URGHHHHHH!!
We have children waiting in Haiti for this paperwork so they can come home!!
I think we need a paperwork plunger so we can get the clog out!
Just a thought...