I will have to post the pictures later they did not copy from word Sorry for now ignore the little picture titles
I have to
start this post with an apology for not updating more often. I do have somewhat of a legitimate excuse
this time though. Our internet has not
been working well for a month or so now.
We do have
some big news coming from our family though and would like to use this post to
tell you about it.
I will
start with a little bit of a back story so that you can all be familiar with
the people I will talk about. As many of
you know four years ago this coming January we took in a sibling group of four
kids. Mickaila, Andrew and the twins
Mark and Marah. Mark has been with us
since the start. Mickaila, Andrew and
Marah where in our orphanage being cared for by house parents. The beginning of this year they were still
living at the orphanage but to save some money they took all their meals with
us. By the middle of the year we decided
that we would try and start the adoption process over again and this time we
would process the adoption for both the twins.
At this point we did talk about the older two but felt at that time it
would be too difficult to try and decided not to at that time.
All
Our family
as of January 2019
Well God
knows his plans and stalled the adoption so that he could work in our hearts
and make his will known and to allow us
time to be comfortable with that chose.
A few weeks ago Jonah had a meeting with the new adoption worker from
Cebu and they continued to stress how
much easier it would be to process the adoption of the four of them and it
would be more likely to be approved. All
four have been under our primary care and God had been working on my heart at
least to be okay with adopting all four of them. When it comes to something like that I talk
to Jonah about it and then let God do the rest.
If it is his will then he will make it clear to Jonah as well and he
will come to me and we talk about it further.
This was one of those times.
After the meeting with the adoption worker he came home and told me he
thought we should adopt all four of them.
So our family went from four when we arrived five years ago. We tried to grow it by one within a year of
our arrival and know almost five years later we are going to double from our
original size.
We went to
Cebu safari park in June, this was before we knew we would adopt all of them
but it was a great family outing.
Daddy
with all his kids.
The three
newest Cajigas kids
The two
oldest sisters.
Sister love
Mom with all her kids.
Newest
family photo. Sept. 2, 2019
The first
step should be about a month or so. The
adoption worker will but out a news report on different news outlets looking
for the birth mom. She has one month to
reply. If she does she could be arrested
for warrants on theft charges. If she
does not reply the children will be considered legally abandoned and available
for adoption. If everything goes as it
should a year and a half from know the kids will be legally Cajigas.
This does
mean that my life is busy and revolves around cooking and caring for kids. I enjoy it most of the time but there are
definitely times that I cannot wait for grocery day or nap time. Most days I do not get nap time though because
I only have one that takes naps everyday still.
I have two that do not nap most days.
They do have quite time most of the time.
