You all are not even going to believe this...

OK, so first off you should know that I did not wait until Mother's Day to open the mystery envelope. I waited a little over 24 hours and just couldn't stand it. As soon as we finished eating supper on Thursday night I ripped into the envelope. And this is what we found...


Along with the note from Cohen, we found cash... enough cash for another trip to visit Cohen! As you can imagine, I immediately burst into tears. Robby was speechless -- for like 30 mintues! We are still praying that we do the right thing with this money. Of course our initial reaction was to jump on the first plane to Guatemala and hold our son. But after thinking about it, we realized that there is a very good chance that our case will be kicked out of PGN at least once and it would be very difficult for us to redo documents if we were both in Guatemala. So our plan is for me to go down around June 11th and Robby will join us as soon as we hear we are out of PGN.

We can't help but wonder who sent us this money... At the bottom of the note, it read: "With a little assistance from some of God's anonymous helpers." I hope that the sender of that envelope is reading this post. I want you to know what an answer to our prayers you are! As I looked back in my prayer journal, I found this from May 2nd: "God, I have to think realistically... June may come and go without Cohen coming home. If this is your will, please make a way for me to stay with Cohen in GC." On May 9th our answer to prayer arrived in the mail. Wow! Thank you, God for working through others and making your hand in Cohen's adoption so evident.

Now let me brag on my husband a little bit...Robby made me breakfast in bed this morning! Usually I am the queen of the snooze button -- drives him crazy. This morning, however, I couldn't help but think of all the things I needed to do before church -- clean up the house a little, wrap a Mother's Day gift, decide what to wear. Robby's plan was to get up the first time the alarm went off and make my breakfast. He was shocked when I hopped out of bed so quickly. I had already taken my shower and gotten dressed by the time breakfast was ready, but I happily hopped back in bed and enjoyed being pampered! Am I lucky or what!