Happy Saturday!

Happy Saturday!!! Today I don’t feel like studying at all. I think we are going to head for Moncton (city) and go browse/shop in baby/children stores. I received the book that I created by shutterfly with pictures and little sotries of our family so the volunteers can show Kyanne who we are. I want to send it to her along with a few other items. So shopping it is this afternoon. I’ll tell you all about it later.

Citizenship or Permanent Residence?

Now the fun part begins… I filled for Kyanne to be a Permanent Residence in Canada and then we would file for her Canadian Citizenship but I guess GLA wants us to do the Citizenship route for the get go! So back on the phone tomorrow with Citizenship and Immigration Canada. I wonder who I’ll get on the phone... The one that can’t answer a general question or the nice guy that could answer all my general questions... LOL!


I had a fun day today. I called the call center first thing this morning and decided to be efficient and wrote down all the questions I had on a piece of paper to be able to ask all my questions quickly without having to go to each form and look for my question. I thought I was being smart. Well the lady on the other line proved me wrong. I started by saying that I had a few general questions and she did not even let me asked the questions because she had to know the exact form number and what line I had a question for. I was trying to explain that it was just a general question for the whole package... she said I’m sorry I cannot help you....I need the form number first. So all that to say that I had to go back and find each form number and ask a specific question with the specific number. That didn’t go to well. I decided to call back in the pm and got this nice gentleman on the phone that was actually helpful and was able to answer all my questions. He told me that I could switch to Citizenship instead of Permanent Residence in Canada so I will call back tomorrow and see what I need to do and what other forms I will have to fill out.

LONO Signed!

Our Province signed and sent us a copy of the Letter of No Objection (LONO). I was waiting for that piece of paper.... Reason why... I don’t have to deal with the province anymore for the rest of our adoption process. We will now communicate with the orphanage directly and not have to listen to the negativity... AMEN!

Another dossier passed IBESR in 3 months!

Nothing new and exciting happened since our referral except that the nursery is all done. The crib and everything is assembled. I just didn't decorate the room yet. I'll wait till I find something that strikes me and then start decorating.

I am looking forward to our monthly update and receive new pictures of our little sweetheart. I don't think I stopped smiling yet. I just stare at her beautiful happy face and just dream that I have her in my arms.

Last night I got an email from another adoptive mom saying that another dossier made its way through IBESR in 3 months. That is really awesome news once again.

Adoptions taking less time in Haiti now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was on Dixie's blog today... I am doing the dance of joy right now!!! You can't see me but I am just so trilled and happy!

Someone called me yesterday to talk about adoption lawyers and if I could refer them to a couple of good lawyers. This person had been doing some “private” adoptions for American families and the lawyer she was using was becoming “difficult” and she was considering changing lawyers.
It was the news she told me after we talked about lawyers that got me excited! She said that from IBESR to Passport was taking her about 8 months! I find that SO exciting! Wow! We haven’t had adoptions here in Haiti that have taken less than a year for the last 4 years or more! Haitian adoptions have just taken longer and longer and it was trend that just has been happening in the last 10 years.

Since we have just recently had dossiers go into IBESR, we do not know how long it will take for an adoption to finish. Now, I have a time line that I can push our lawyer to meet! If another lawyer can do up to the passport in 8 months, then I expect our lawyer to do the same or even less!

For me, this is such exciting news! If we can get adoptions finished in less than a year, families and children will be so blessed! Babies might still be babies and older children will spend less time in an orphanage setting.
Please pray with us that this will continue and children will go home to their “forever” families quickly!

http://godslittlestangelsinhaiti.org/andlifegoeson/2011/02/26/adoption-news-2/

Why Kyanne and not Kyanna???

When we first picked out her name while in D.R. 2 years ago, we decided on Kyanna. During those 2 years, we have always said that we would probably call her Kyanne as a nick name but her real name would be Kyanna. So to make a long story short, when it was time to write the letter to GLA and to accept the referral we had to put her Canadian name and we decided that we were going to go with what we would be calling her at home instead of having a nick name and make it more confusing because she knows her name as Berline now. I really like that name as well, but when we chose her name in D.R. it was a special moment as well and it’s really meaningful for us. By having both names, she is being watched over by all her guides in heaving watching over her.

Kyanne: It had been over a year that we were trying to figure out a name for our daughter and the day after my dad passed away, we were on vacation in D.R. and the name just came to us and we both knew that the tought came from a higher level and someone watching over us and her.

Berline: I went to see my sister in law last night with the pictures and she thought that we had picked Berline for her name. When I explained that it was the name given by her birth Mother, she said we thought it was you because Ber ( Bernice, who was my step-daughters mother’s name who is now looking over us with my dad. I am confident that she had it all planned out with my dad and the rest of our Guardian Angles and Guides.) Line (my mom is Noëlline) so the Name Berline is once again as meaningful as Kyanne.

Some thoughts about my mom!

I thought I would share what my mom said after she seen the pictures of her grand-daughter for the first time.

After she carefully looked at ever picture and described how beautiful she is, she said now Sylvie... you know you’ll have to feed her meat LOL! If you know my mom, we grew up having meat on the table every day. Being the fussy Sylvie I was and still is, I mostly ate bread and ketchup for supper while growing up. I never liked meat and still don’t. It was a challenge for me while I was young because I had no other options. Now I have found lots of other type of food that I love and that is good for me. I’m sure I’ll find the right diet for Kyanne. I’ll just have to make sure that I prepare her a lunch box if she does over nights at her grand-ma LOL! I’m just kidding. I love my mom very much and I can’t wait for her to spend time with Kyanne. She’s going to be the perfect grand-ma a child could ever have. My cousin that lives next door to my mom has the most beautiful little boy ever. When he goes to my mom, he always ask her for his cookie. After all those years that my brother and I grew up... she still buys the arrowroots cookies for kids. xoxoxo

Picture I included is of myslef, my mom and brother, Mathieu.