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It was one of those days that smacks you in the face and never apologizes. Reality hits you at 100mph and you never saw it coming. Lulled into a comfort zone of my own making I was unprepared for the phone call I was about to receive. I had learned to deal with the disappointing calls. You know when it was claimed paperwork had been completed days ago and now it apparently would be another week. This was another story altogether.
Just days after learning that all of Mia’s paperwork was ready, our lawyer contact Kristina and asked if she would accompany him to Santa Maria Chiquimula in the region of Totonicapan. Of course Kristina agreed knowing that her presence would likely assure that things were completed, as they should be. However, Mia would have to make the journey as well, which Kristina was worried she might be starting to become travel weary from trip after trip. No one who knew English very well was available to accompany our lawyer and Kristina but our friend’s 18 year old daughter rode along. The journey to Santa Maria Chiquimula is a difficult one. Though the name contains “Chiquimula,” it is actually in the opposite direction of the Chiquimula region. It is located in Totonicapan, which is a mountainous region north of Panajachel and Quetzaltenango. After 3 hours of driving, the road becomes windy and treacherous. It is the only route in or out of the area where Santa Maria Chiquimula is located.
While I was calmly at work on this day, the following events were taking place a world away. I didn’t learn of any of this until after the fact. That evening Kristina called me with a fatigued voice and her first words were: “I’m OK.”
That can’t be good…
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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