No news but we are going to make some!

We have decided we can wait no longer and we are going down to be with Maria for the month of May and so on until we can bring her home. This is called fostering and I have been researching apartments ect and we are trying to line everything up. We made our flight arrangements tonight (lucky for us they can be changed without a fee). We will be arriving May 1st and hopefully picking up Maria Alejandra on May 2nd. We are hoping and praying and basically going out on a limb to think that we will exit PGN in the next 15 days. It will be four months in PGN this Friday and 8 weeks since our last kickout/resubmit. Soooooooooooo, even though we are well aware anything can happen and believe me in this process anything and everything can happen but we are taking a leap of faith and going for it. I am tired of being conservative, tired of being patient, tired of waiting. Once again, compared to many families we are very very fortunate and godwilling we will hear something in the next two weeks. I have just emailed our agency and hope they will be on board with our plans. We want Maria's transition to be as smooth as possible. With adopting an older child there is so much more to consider. They are old enough to understand what is going on and yet not mature enough to truly process it. We think the time together fostering will be priceless. We will be away from all of our distractions of home and we can just concentrate on being a family. There is a large network/community of fostering families in Antigua (a small town near Guatemala City). So this is our plan!!! More to come this week!! Thanks for thinking of us and all the families waiting for their precious children.