We're Moving

I am putting in my change of address forms. It appears we will permanently be residing at IBESR in Haiti.

Of course, I'm joking, but it feels like we've been in this department forever. Close. We've been there 11 months now. We were told 4-7 months when we entered.

Madam Beaudin, who is/was the director of IBESR (and on whose desk our file has been sitting for months), apparently has been nominated to be the Director of Social Affairs. Congratulations to her! But, in the meanwhile, I don't know if this is why our file has been "sitting."

Update Sept. 4: Apparently Madam Beaudin has received the post, according to Dixie at God's Littlest Angels. Please pray she signs out our files before she leaves. Also, please pray for the country's people. They have been hit so hard by the storms, and the death toll from Hanna is escalating. Relief can't get to the flooded orphanages. People are stuck on their roofs. People haven't had any clean water to drink for days.

Please, Madam B (or whomever is taking your place), PLEASE release our file. We've been married the required amount of time. We're both older than the required age. We have only one birth child at home. Please tell me what is the problem. These girls need a permanent home where they will be loved and cared for! Their forever family is waiting!


August 2008 photo of Yslande. I haven't received Catiana's photo. The weather really effects the internet signal.

In addition to prayers for the adoption, I seek prayers for the safety of the kids at the O, the workers and their families. The storms have been flooding Haiti. Parts of the O have flooded and some of the donations have been destroyed.

Hanna eyes Bahamas after battering Haiti

Ariana Cubillos / AP A man walks through a rice field in L'Artibonite, Haiti, that was flooded by rains from Tropical Storm Hanna on Tuesday

SAINT-MARC, Haiti - Far-reaching Tropical Storm Hanna drenched flood-plagued Haiti on Wednesday, adding to the miseries of a country that has lost 110 lives to mudslides and flooding since mid-August.

The storm that had been drifting south and east finally swung toward the north on Wednesday and authorities issued a hurricane warning for northwest and central Bahamas.

Hanna was expected to sweep across the Bahamas and then start climbing along the U.S. coastline by the weekend, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami — with a 20 percent chance it could bring tropical storm force winds to New York City.

Haitian authorities on Wednesday reported five more deaths caused by Hanna, raising the toll to 26.

Floodwaters swamped a hospital in the Les Cayes area, forcing nurses to move patients to higher floors. At least 5,000 people in Les Cayes remained in shelters, said Jean-Renand Valiere, a coordinator for the civil protection department.

Haiti already had suffered scores of deaths due to flooding cause by Tropical Storm Fay and Hurricane Gustav in late August.

Haiti is particularly vulnerable to devastating floods because of its steep hillsides that have been deforested to plant crops or make charcoal.

Meanwhile, Ike strenghtened into the fifth hurricane of the Atlantic season as it cruised northwestward at 18 mph across the Atlantic with top winds near 80 mph. Forecasters cautioned that "it is too early to determine what, if any land areas might be directly affected by Ike."