ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS
2012
A Journey to Save a Life: Part Twelve/ The Phone Call That Changes Everything As I said in yesterday’s blog, we Craig’s had settled into a life without Gina. Sure, we still had our meetings with her, and we still had the meetings with the foster “experts” …but each meeting just confirmed that the...
03/13/2012
A Journey to Save a Life: Part Eleven/ The Nightmare of Foster Care Gina ended up in a foster home about 40 miles away from our home. She was placed with a family supposedly trained in therapeutic foster care. Based on what we were to observe over the next couple of years, the family received mor...
03/12/2012
A Journey to Save a Life: Part Ten/ It all Starts to Go Horribly Wrong For the next few years everything was going along just perfectly. In fact, things were so good; we added a 4th child to our brood…adopting a one year old boy from Brazil. So, we were now up to 4 children, and we had become a r...
03/11/2012
A Journey to Save a Life: Part Nine/ A Christmas Eve Miracle Within a week, Gina and Steph were home from the hospital, and we trying to get a normal routine going. Gina, with a cast on from her toe to her hip, was back to crawling around on the floor. She had stepped up in the world a bit this t...
03/08/2012
A Journey to Save a Life: Part Eight/ Momma Call The Doctor, The Doctor Say… I thought it only fitting to use the above headline since comes from one of Gina’s favorite childhood rhymes. Steph and I were sitting in the orthopedic surgeon’s office as he described Gina’s wounds. The one on her butt...
03/07/2012
A Journey to Save a Life: Part Seven/ We Can’t Wait to Get Back to the States! During all the confusion and stress of the last few days, I had forgotten to confirm our flights out of El Salvador. We had been warned by Concern for Children that this was something we would need to do…but it just sl...
03/06/2012
A Journey to Save a Life: Part Six/ Preparing to Get Out of Dodge Once Stephanie got Gina out of the tub and dressed, we had some major things to get accomplished so we could leave El Salvador. Gina needed a medical exam in order to process her paperwork through the American Embassy. She also nee...
03/05/2012
A Journey to Save a Life: Part Five/ Getting Acquainted Back at the Hotel Before I get going with today's blog, I would like to thank all of you who have joined me on this Lenten Journey. Thank you so much for your comments, and your prayers. Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy sch...
03/04/2012
A Journey to Save a Life: Part Four/ The Orphanage As modern as our hotel accommodations were, the visit to court was like stepping back in time. As we entered the outer room of the courthouse, there were no computers…just one old typewriter shared between 4 to 5 administrative assistants. The wo...
03/01/2012
A Journey to Save a Life: Part Three/ The Trip to El Salvador Stephanie and I had made a decision early on in the process that we were going to take the boys along when we went to El Salvador to pick up their sister. Steven was about 13-14 at the time, and Michael was 8-9 years old. Looking back...
02/29/2012
