Last few days in review

Where do I start??? Last week on Thursday (4/24) President Colom fired Attorney General Bardillo and subsequently Sr. Barrios was fired. Adoptions were shut down. Those people who had files on Barrios' desk for signature and those at the window for pickup were pulled. Nothing was happening. Anxiety and fear were running rampant amongst the chat forums etc. I did my best not to log on over the weekend. It's not as if I could do anything but speculate anyway. Instead I took my frustration out on a carpet cleaning maching. :-) And then my furnace went and died on Sunday. At least it's not -30 anymore....

I knew that Monday (4/28) was going to be a fairly stressful day as my brother Eric had surgery in the afternoon. Actually he called my folks as they were heading to the hospital and they were taking him in an hour ahead of schedule. In the meantime, I was made aware of a meeting that was called by the new Attorney General Sr. Merlos and Sra. Flory De Leon (replacing Barrios). All attorneys and notaries were invited to attend. The chatter was that the attorneys had to present their cases and explain why they should be allowed to proceed. PROCEED??? You've got to be kidding me. I thought I was going to lose it, puke, or just plain pass out. The meeting was to start at 9:00AM. I sat on pins and needles all day between waiting for news from Guatemala and the hospital. By about 2:30PM we heard that the meeting in Guatemala went well, but no real solid information. And then about 4:15PM I heard that Eric was in recovery and that the surgery went very well.

My friend Angie who is also adopting from Guatemala and has one child already from there spoke to her contacts and phoned me Tuesday morning. The meeting did go well. Cases that were awaiting signature or pickup should be processed out by the end of next week. The AG said that the rest of us have been in PGN too long already and it is his plan to get us processed out. They are establishing a system for processing/reviewing cases. (wow a real system??!!) I am very hopeful that I will be out of PGN in the next few weeks. I am hoping that this "cleaning house" by the Colom administration will also affect the CR's so that birth certificates will start rolling out. I really don't think I can take another 4 month wait for no viable reason other than to hold me up.

I guess that catches everyone up on the latest goings on in my world. I can't wait for the day when I don't have to post these kind of things and instead can post the cute little antics of Charli. someday soon.........