Faith is here...what a beauty....

 

 

 

 

Lil Missie is here....

Hey guys ...home from Haiti and really ...REALLY tired. Lil Miss Faith was born on Thursday morning at 9:00 a.m. 8lbs ...and really healthy. Trev got the call and went to the hospital at noon, and stayed there over night. She was brought home on noon on Friday. I was in Miami when I got the call. I was so anxious to get home. I got to Boise picked up the wild three from my Moms and drove the four hours home. yes that means it took me 36 hours travel time to get home this trip...no rest for the weary eh? Faith is doing great. Eating well, sleeping pretty well and just such a peanut. The kids are having a great time helping hold her, feed bottles and taking stinky diapers outside. She already is such a blessing in our lives. It is no small thing when ones so fresh from heaven enter our homes. Because of swine flu...our pediatrician has recommended we not travel or have un necessary guests and people in our home for the next six weeks. So I know ya'll are dying to stop by..but please be patient with us... we really don't want her sick. Love to all, Lindsay

Lil' bit Anxious....

So no baby yet....
I haven't been sleeping well.
Just A LOT on my mind getting ready for my Haiti trip...and baby coming .

Today during church, I looked over at Trev and thought...by this time next week I will be sitting in church with the other half of out family...wishing for air-conditioning...in Haiti...
and he may have sent the kids to church with our neighbor....and stayed home with the baby.
.....but MAYBE not....
Change is a-comin'..... just don't know when.

I was pulled aside by some women at church today...asking what they could do to help...(It really touched me, because we haven't felt like we have fit in that well since we moved in two years ago).... I told them ...if my Husband has a Newborn while I am gone...will you PLEASE feed him?
I am doubting , regardless of the Freezer meals stocked in my fridge that he will remember to defrost and bake them!

We received a bunch of cute and snugly clothes for Faith from Trevs AWESOME cousin Mindy and her Hubby Scott!
The bottles will be great too!

Trevs AWESOME Secratary also hooked us up with a darling car seat....and diapers galore!

My next door neighbor on one side (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE)went on a mini shopping spree...and I can't tell you how grateful I am!!!!

My other next door neighbor...donated a bouncer seat...from her almost new baby girl....could we be anymore BLESSED?

THANKS SOOO MUCH GUYS!


I am trying so hard not to fret, or over plan....but isn't that what the Mama does?


We have bags packed all over my house!
Stay tuned....Who knows when ...but someday soon Faith will be here!

Meeting "Hope"

I am going to refer to "Faith's" birth mother as "Hope".

We went to the Prison on Saturday Afternoon.
Having never been to a prison of any sort, I was apprehensive and very prayerful.
Infact after arriving at the Womens Prison, Trevor and I shared a short prayer in the parking lot.

We were checked in at the front desk, went through a metal detector and were "wanded" by an officer, the escorted into the "Visitors room. It was full of short tables and chairs. A female and male restroom, a playroom for children were also connecting.
There were many families waiting, and children dressed up in their Halloween Costumes.

There were many vending machines and (Note to self) I will bring in quarters next visit.

We waited for about 15 minutes ...and then heard the automatic door .
In a room 9x8 six women entered. It is a holding room between the cell block and visitors rooms. It visible by a window.
There the women stood, we could see them and them us.

I recognized two of the six women were very pregnant and wondered which was "Hope".
My eyes connected with the smaller built of the two, I smiled at her and she smiled faintly back.
After the women were padded down, they were one by one allowed into the Visitors room.
Trev and I stood and introduced our selves.
What do you say in a situation like this...."Hi I am so-and-so...I will be raising your child until you can?"....I still had a lump of anxiety in my throat that kept me from talking very much or with volume.

We sat down, and with tears in her eyes...all Hope said was "Thank you".

Anxiety gone...I grabbed her hand a squeezed and and told her" It will be BOTH of our blessings".

We had a great visit, sharing our histories. She kept on looking at Trev and saying "He looks (her native land)".
Though she immigrated to the US when she was nine, she still struggled with English fluency.

We had a great visit.I embraced her as I left and told her we would keep praying for both her and Faith.

The spirit was so strong as I left.
There are just moments in your life , you know you are in the exact time and place God would have you be, I feel that way in Haiti all of the time...so why not in a womens prison?

I pray for Hope everyday. She has lost so much in her young life.

Since the complications, spotting and contractions are at bay and her most recent stress test was OK..they are going to let her go until her due date ...the 14th!
Yikes RIGHT in the middle of my Haiti trip!...It will work out, one way or another that is what Faith has taught us....and what this little "Faith" will teach us.

Lindsay