But before I dive into that, let me give you an update on how we are doing as a family for those of you who are wondering, and then I will rant on about waiting kids at the end. :-)
We recently returned from a trip to Minnesota for our son Leon's wedding. We were there in April for Mercedes wedding as well. For those of you who are on Facebook, there were plenty of pictures, that's for sure. We are thrilled with the choices that these two have made and love their spouses as our own. We also were thrilled to share the engagement of our son Rand this past summer -- he has found an amazing girl as well. We are so blessed.
We also welcomed Camilla Mae into the world. Our daughter Salinda and her husband Mike, are now parenting three children full time -Gabby will be 10 in December (CAN YOU BELIEVE IT-- she's growing up way too fast). and Carlos celebrated his 5th birthday about a week ago. He and Camilla were baptized on September 15th. We also get to see Mike's son from a previous relationship often. His name is Jy and we claim him as one of our 9 grandchildren.
The rest of our children seem to be doing fairly well. Everyone who lives with us here in Virginia (Dominyk, Jimmy, Wilson, and Salinda) is employed full time (or close to it) and we have developed a routine. I am enjoying not commuting.
Kyle and Christy and their three children (Silas is now 6 and the twins are 3) continue to do well. We enjoy visiting them and watching Kyle be a great dad to his kids. It's a pure joy and blessing.
We visited John in jail a few weeks ago in MN -- he is anticipating release in August of 2020. We hear from Tony regularly (he is in MN as well). We don't hear from Mike and only occasionally from Ricardo.
At this moment in time (knock on wood) we are all fairly stable and we are grateful. We love our new home, our new church (we moved in June), and are finding ourselves at a more stable way of life. Until the next thing happens :-)
So, what am I all worked up about today? There are still too many of them. There are still too many kids who are legally free for adoption and nobody is doing anything about it.
Where is the church in caring for these kids? Even if someone isn't called to adopt or foster, God calls ALL of us to do something.
Check out this new resource I found out about.... It's called Care Portal and maybe your church would like to participate. We are hoping to bring it to our region within the next year, but maybe you already live in a place where you can get your church involved.
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