Rainy days are here

We kept wondering when the rainy season would hit. It has! The past 3 days have been solid rain. Not always hard, just steady. The picture of town is of a rainy outing with Erick. It just started here, so isn't a true representation of the rain, but you get the picture. I finally got to RUN with my jogging stroller as we headed home! The other is just Erick playing in the puddle in our courtyard.

I took the close-up of Erick trying to show his face and ear. He got tagged by a mosquito over nignt several times on his face and ear and had a swollen Dumbo ear for most of the day. I try to keep Skin-So-Soft on him as repellent and keep our bedroom door closed, but the mosquitos still get inside.

Angie, our housemate, insisted we have a futbol match with the boys. Erick is the only one who can walk, so it kind of looked like a foosball game with us all swinging little babies back and forth trying to get them to kick a ball. Lasted all of 2 minutes then the crying began.

Our adoption process continues to be slow but we're trying not to complain. We've known girls who have had their babies taken back to orphanages or foster care, at least temporarily while this government mess is going on. One girl needs to have a birth mother interview and they cannot located the birth mom.

I truly can't imagine going through this without having huge faith in our sovereign God. What would you put your hope in? A positive attitude to get through this? Yourself? The government?

This month my passage has been Psalm 121 that says the Lord is my maker and helper, He does not sleep, He watches over me day and night and always will. This adoption may take longer than expected, cost more than expected, cause grief and anxiety, but if it pulls us closer to the Lord, and it will, "it's gonna be worth it all...and I believe this!"