Dixie And Life Goes On Domincan Republic, Frantina, God's Littlest Angels, Medical care, Orphan, Orphanage 0 Comment
We arrived at the Medical Center at 7 AM and Frantina did very well considering she could not have anything to eat since the night before! She has been really good the whole trip. I am really impressed with how happy she is and loves looking at all of the different things around her! They [...]
Dixie And Life Goes On Domincan Republic, Frantina, God's Littlest Angels, Medical care, Orphange, santo domingo 5 Comments
Well, except for not being able to speak even basic Spanish, I kind of think I like the Dominican Republic! It is bringing back to me those early memories of being in Haiti and being unable to communicate with anyone for any reason without a lot of hand waving, pointing, and shrugging of the shoulders! [...]
Dixie And Life Goes On, Haiti News, Our Kids GLA, God's Littlest Angels, Haiti, Orphanage 1 Comment
I had to take my son, Mark, down to his school this afternoon (Saturday) because he had a basketball game. We left the house at 1:45 PM and didn’t get back home until 8 PM! I hate going down to Port-au-Prince on Saturdays. The traffic is horrible and I don’t really like driving home in [...]
Dixie Adoption News from GLA, And Life Goes On Adoptions, GLA, God's Littlest Angels, Haiti, News, Orphanage, Orphans 9 Comments
I know a lot of people have been waiting for this information and I just returned from downtown and found the email. So here is the report of the meeting: 1. The New Adoption Law: It was not discussed because it is still being looked at and changed. I do know that it was on [...]
Dixie And Life Goes On GLA, God's Littlest Angels, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Orphanage, Orphans 10 Comments
I was sitting at my desk. It was a weird kind of day all day long. I had been on a weird diet and for lunch I told everyone, let’s have hamburgers and French Fries for lunch and our office staff jumped at the offer! None of us knew it would be the last thing [...]
Dixie And Life Goes On, Notes from the NICU, Our Kids club feet, GLA, God's Littlest Angels, Haiti, Orphanage, Orphans 5 Comments
We recently found out that one of our babies, Frantina, has tumor on her cervical spine. Her development went from sitting up and standing with help to not being able to sit up at all. She is weak. We did not know that Haiti now has an MRI Imaging Center, but once we found out, [...]
Dixie And Life Goes On Earthquake in Haiti, GLA, God's Littlest Angels, Haiti, Orphanage, Orphans 2 Comments
(Tom wrote) Those of us who were involved with Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010 will always remember 4:53 PM that afternoon. That’s the time when, for 35 seconds, the earth shook violently under Port Au Prince Haiti. Hundreds of thousands died on that day and shortly after and for literally millions of people, the world [...]
TomVanderwell And Life Goes On, Deep Thoughts, Haiti News, Orphan Care, Our Kids, Video, Ways to Partner earthquake, Haiti, Orphan 0 Comment
Those of us who were involved with Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010 will always remember 4:53 PM that afternoon. That’s the time when, for 35 seconds, the earth shook violently under Port Au Prince Haiti. Hundreds of thousands died on that day and shortly after and for literally millions of people, the world changed forever. [...]