{"id":98,"date":"2009-11-26T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/2009\/11\/26\/TheGoodNewsAndTheNotSoGood.aspx"},"modified":"2009-11-26T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T19:51:00","slug":"the-good-news-and-the-not-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"The good news and the not so good\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The great news is that I received a brief note saying that the interviews went \u201cwell\u201d \u2013 no more details yet \u2013 but praise God \u2013 that\u2019s got to be good news!<\/p>\n

The bad news is that our lawyer was unable to make his November trip to Haiti because other clients papers were not completed; and when he went to rebook his plane tickets, the prices had almost tripled for the end of the year \u2013 so now he is unsure if he is going to be going to Haiti before the new year. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

We have still have so many hurdles to overcome \u2013 first, the fact that we need a legal waiver to even adopt in Haiti because we have biological kids and our under 35 (we have been married almost 12 years though \u2013 so we at least have 1 of the three requirements met); second, if we receive that waiver, we also have to get a presidential waiver; third is that next year is an election year in Haiti, and historically it seems that during election time the country has the ability to become very unstable, and legal processes seem to stop in their tracks.<\/p>\n

So, my new prayer is that:<\/p>\n