Container of donations will arrive in Haiti this month!

I spoke to the guy in Fall River NS and he said the container should arrive in Haiti on September 29^th. While reading the GLA Canada site, I came across this post. “CONTAINER number 7 from Canada has just left the warehouse in Fall River NS bound for Haiti. This one contains items donated from Quebec and the Maritimes PLUS some badly needed construction machinery. We say a huge THANK YOU to the hundreds of Canadians who have donated over 300,000 pounds of relief items for Haiti. These containers are being unloaded and the relief supplies being given to needy people NOW! (September) We will be sending one more container from Yarmouth Nova Scotia on September 20th.”   

THANK YOU ALL who donated items, money and helped with the packing. The people in Haiti are still living in tents after all this time and are in desperate need of supplies.

Another baby girl ready to be adopted at GLA

I had to share this blog post. The person writing this blog is a nurse at GLA.


She posted a picture of a 6 month old girl called Darline. Blog post
This precious little girl is ready to get adopted. Like she said “The information from my assessment, together with formal medical and psychological examinations will help our orphanage staff to match this gorgeous baby girl with a family on our waiting list.”

She could end up in our family, with my friend who is also adopting from GLA, a family in France, US... Where ever she goes, I’m sure she’s going to have a good life ahead of her.

Finally! Some adoption news from GLA!

This is what Dixie posted on her blog “I have set at my desk from 7:30 AM until 8 PM trying to get 11 proposals out to waiting adoptive parents, writing letters that I needed to do before I left, and trying to answer a few emails too!”


This is it! Proposals are starting again after the earthquake. I am so happy. 2 weeks ago, I got an email from a girl I got to know through adoption blogs. She is from Alberta and she received a proposal for twin boys. I was so happy to hear that. I knew that Dixie should be just around the corner to announce that she was going to do the same. 8 months has passed since the earthquake and things are starting to move again.

So what those this means for us “11 proposals are being sent out” Well they have about 20 some dossiers at GLA and 11 are being sent out so we might be in the first 11 and if not, there are only 10-15 more to go. I am confident that things are going to start happening for us. Continue to Pray!

SPROUTING!

Last Thursday evening, I went at my cousin’s house and her mom, taught us how to sprout our own vegetables. My aunt has been sprouting for a while now and she just loves it. She orders the organic seeds in bulk online, so I was able to buy the seeds from her. When I left that evening, I was so excited. I am really looking forward to eat my own sprouting in my salads. To start off, I am going to try, red cabbage, lentils, broccoli, garlic, green peas, alfalfa and clover. When I got home, I was so looking forward to start that I woke Victor and explain to him what I was going to do my sprouting and gave him a lesson on the benefits of eating sprouted vegetables. I almost didn’t sleep that night. I wanted to start my sprouting right away. I woke at 5am the next morning to start the soaking on the ones that needed to soak for 12 hrs.

Today I can say that I finished my first batched of sprouts. I was able to add the lentils and green peas in my salad. It was delicious! The rest of them are still in progress.

Update on Haiti

On July 12, 2010, we just hit the 6 months anniversary of the Earthquake. Since the earthquake, there haven’t been many children coming in to the O to be adopted. You would think that more would be coming in now because there are still over 1,200,000 people in Haiti that are still living under tarps and tents.

A few weeks ago, Dixie posted on her blog that parents will have to travel to Haiti 3 times to complete the adoption. On top of that, she mentioned that the Canadian Gov. was considering stopping adoptions in Haiti for 3-6 months. Here is her post “Now parents will be required to come to Haiti 3 times. They will come at the beginning of the process to appear in front of the local Judge, they will have to appear at the Civil Court, and then come at the end of the adoption to take their child home. The law does not require this civil court visit, so now Mrs. Cazimir is making up new rules. The Canadian government is considering stopping adoptions from Haiti for 3 to 6 months because of the adoption process being so disorganized right now.”

I contacted my Province and was told that she has not heard a thing about the Canadian Gov. Suspending adoptions for Haiti. We’ll see what the upcoming weeks are going to bring. In the meantime, I continue to read Dixie’s updates and hope to see more of the new babies coming in... Here is her latest post.

Hot Week

We just finished a week long of high 30 degress. It was a heat wave. Lucky for us, there’s always a breeze in the evening because we live by the ocean. We open the windows in our bedroom and I sleep like a baby. Each day, when I got home from work, I put on my bathing suit and off the beach with the dogs. It’s so much fun to come home from work and be able to go for a nice swim. The water was like walking in a bathtub.

Yesterday, I dropped off the dogs at the daycare. I knew we were going out in the evening and I did not want them to be alone all day and night. When I picked them up, they were tired out! We got home and went for a quick dip at the beach and then they slept like babies. We left for an evening boating with friends. We had a great time. The breeze was even warm after sunset.

I am still off the caffeine! I was 2 weeks yesterday. I am so proud. In 2 weeks, I can honestly say that I only had 2 days my mind was telling me that i needed my cup of coffee.

5 Days today without Caffeine!

I haven’t been updating my blog lately. I’ve been too busy working outside. I am so happy to say that my arrangement that I hired a house cleaner is giving me the time to be outside. I’ve been pretty good a weeding my flowers. It’s not perfect but it better than previous years.

Today is going to be 5 days that I haven’t drank coffee! I am so proud of myself. This is something that I never thought I could do. When I went to Haiti that was one of my biggest concerns... what happens if I don’t have coffee. I had even brought instant coffee in my suitcase in case. When I don’t have my coffee first thing in the morning, I just did not function. I used to have a huge headache and would get cranky. About a month ago, my cousin told me she was going to California to learn how to prepare raw food. She said that she wanted to stop drinking coffee before she leaves because most of the people that would be taking that class would probably be %100 Vegan, Organic... no caffeine type of people. She didn’t want to clash so she challenged herself to not drink coffee for 3 weeks. I honestly thought she was crazy because she loves her coffee like I do. Anyhoo, she did the challenge and is still going at it on her 4th week. I went for lunch with her thinking she would look like hell because he had no caffeine in her body but she was looking good. I got thinking and decided to try it myself. I said I would try it for 1 week and if it came too bad, I would have a sip. So on Friday, June 25th, I left work with my coffee mug filled with coffee but did not drink it. I smelled the aroma of coffee in the car. I drank lots of water during the day to keep me going. I was so proud when I got home that I had worked all day without coffee. Then the weekend came along. I think for some weird reason, it took more will power. I took several naps during the day and did not go to bed late.

My goal is not to stop drinking coffee; however I wanted to prove myself that I could do without. I don’t want to live knowing that I have an addiction. This morning, I woke up and did not even think of my coffee. I don’t have headaches during the day, but I drink lots of water. I can honestly say that I feel good and full of energy. I hope I can continue for a while and then just have an occasional coffee here and there.