Family news

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. 

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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.