Okay, We still need some more prayers........

Hi All,

I know a few of you are waiting for Anna's new pics and the latest on her being 10 months old. But, that is saved under my drafts - because I have a request for all of you....

Just wanted to give you an update on what is going on with the other families that are also adopting. Laurie and Emma are home with their little bundles of joy.

BUT - the reason for this post is to ask for your prayers, because my friends Barbara and Tom who live in Rochester - well - they are still in the middle of the mess. Right now PGN/CNA are interviewing the Birth mom's to make sure they wanted to place their baby for adoption. Unfortunately, PGN/CNA are putting the Birth moms through the "ringer" - and trying to make the Birth Mom's change their minds and keep their son/daughter. PGN/CNA are even going as far as threatening the Birth mom to be placed in jail if they don't take their baby back. My heart just aches for Barbara and Tom, because they have been put through enough. It took Barb and Tom awhile to start this adoption, because before their adoption with Guatemala - they had a very bad experience with an adoption where the agency was corrupt and they lost several thousand dollars. And now, when they thought they were at the end of the road, this mess happens. This Thursday at 10am (Guat time) PGN/CNA will be interviewing the Birth Mom to Ben (Barb & Tom's son). Barbara has asked me to say a "Novena in Honor of St. John Bosco" so Ben comes home and the interview with the Birth Mom goes easy for all involved. So, I am asking all my family, friends and blogger friends to help Barbara and Tom, by saying a Novena. (Below is the Novena), or just do whatever works for you. Ben is one of many babies stuck in this mess.

Also, please say a prayer, cross your fingers, whatever it is that works for you - for all the other families that are in this mess, trying to bring their son or daughter home. My heart just aches for all the families and the children in Guatemala, because they are being effected by what their Government is doing.

Thanks in advance for your continued support with this! I will keep you posted on how things go, I am sure everything will go fine and Ben will be home real soon. "Positively Thinking!"


Novena in Honor of St. John Bosco
Father and Teacher of the Young

In need of special help, I appeal with confidence to you, Saint John Bosco, for I require notonly spiritual graces, but also temporal ones, and particularly...

(add your personal intentions here)

May you, who on earth had such great devotion to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and to Mary Help of Christians, and who always had compassion for those who were suffering,obtain from Jesus and His Heavenly Mother the grace I now request, and also a sincere resignation to the Will of God.

(Recite the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be)