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The days following our decision to adopt weren’t suddenly filled with a magical aura that made everything better in our hearts. We did however have a focus to begin working toward adoption. We knew very little about the adoption process and we knew we needed a lot of work to understand what we were going to do. One of the first questions that hit us was where we intended to adopt from. We visited social services in our county in Virginia. They were nice but very overworked. We didn’t get a lot of direction when visiting them. So then we headed to the internet to read up on domestic adoptions. All the while a thought kept pressing into both of our heads privately but one in the same. That thought was simply “adopt from Guatemala.”
A little background will show that Kristina and I aren’t into telepathy or anything like that. Instead, we both have been involved with mission work in Guatemala for years. During our time spent there, we had the opportunity to visit some of the poorest government orphanages. At that time, we both said that if we ever reached the point of adopting a child, we would adopt from here. The question often is asked of me why we adopted from Guatemala when there are kids here in need of homes. The conditions the children in the orphanage we visited captured my heart and the commitment we made years before was one we purposed to keep.
Defining the direction our adoption would take began to remove the ache that dwelled in Kristina’s heart. She lost the notion that she would never be a mommy and realized that she would after all. She began to feel as though she had purpose and direction. In her heart, she knew there was a baby out there or on the way who needed her to open her arms and become mommy. She thought of the difficult decision the birth mom would have to make. While hurting for her, she was glad that the birth mom could be assured her child was going to a loving home.
Shortly after coming to the agreement that we would adopt internationally, we received a phone call from Guatemala that would alter the course of our lives forever…
The Mummau Series
1. Choosing To Adopt
2. Why International? Why Guatemala?
3. The Call From Guatemala
4. The Process Begins
5. A Prelude To Mia
6. How Can You “Choose” A Child – Leaving Others Behind?
7. Peer Into The Heart – Journal Entries
8. Meeting Maria – Finding Mia
9. Leaving Our Daughter…is that…no way!
10. Rivers of Waiting
11. Mistakes, Intentions, and Naivety – How Hope Began To Die
12. Alone in Guatemala and Waiting
13. Time Marches On – Goodbye Mia for Now
14. Joyful Gringos in Quetzaltenango
15. Mia Mia
16. Abuela Comes To The Rescue
17. Doctors, Couriers, and Delays
18. Even So, You Won’t Believe This
19. The Summer of Frustration Ends
20. Fall Approaches with Broken Hearts…Teeth
21. 1600 Miles from Tecpan (pt.1)
22. 1600 Miles from Tecpan (pt.2)
23. Kristina Comes Home
24. Mia’s First Steps
25. December’s Momentum
26. An Angel In The Embassy? I
27. An Angel in the Embassy? II
28. A Christmas to Remember…and Forget
29. Daddy’s 2nd Visit
30. Clash at The Embassy
31. We’re In The PGN! OK Let Us Out!
32. Accomodations
33. The Pencil – Never Give Up
34. Exiting the PGN…sort of
35. Exiting the PGN…yet again
36. Daddy Has Enough
37. The Countdown Begins
38. Easter Brings Hope
39. Sit With Me in San Cristobal
40. T-Minus a few things and counting
41. My New Favorite Color
42. Hope Becomes Reality-The Embassy Interview
43. Mia Mummau Goes Home
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