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I’m sorry to do that to you but I just couldn’t get into the whole email ordeal while you were still processing that whole I-171H fiasco. A fiasco it definitely was. Like I said so much of what happened on this December day will receive new light as the adoption comes to a close.
So I’m on the phone with Kristina and I start reading the email that just came hours ago from the US Embassy.
Mr. Mummau
I am truly sorry to say that there is no record of your file here with us. We have checked by father’s, mother’s, and even infant’s name and nothing has been submitted to us to date. Ask your attorney for a case number which will greatly enable us to locate your file if in fact it has been submitted.
Sincerely,
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As I read the words to Kristina, the heaviness in her breathing conveyed either rage or tears both of which I couldn’t bear to stand. However, just I had asked her to, she waited until I read the second email. This email came just hours after the first one and definitely changed the tome of Kristina’s mood.
Mr. Mummau
This email is to inform you that your case (#*****) has been pre-approved…
It almost seemed unreal that the very same day which began with the frustration of knowing that the embassy didn’t even have our file because of an error that should have never occured on the part of our lawyer. The urgency of rushing to the storage building and finding the paper within minutes was another amazing turn in the day. Then to sit back feeling the day had ended well and find these emails in the bin almost took us over the edge. It definitely was a tiny glimpse at the ups and down of every adoption…but in one day!
So now, family court, PGN, Embassy, Home!!!
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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