The Beginning- January 12, 2010

Tuesday-January 12, 2010 started out as a normal kind of day, drop the kiddos off at school then I go to staph meeting (yes the misspelling is intentional).  Then I usually have lunch with a friend and go back to work until time to pick the kids up from school.  Pretty normal day.  That is until shortly after we got home on that particular Tuesday and I decided to check my facebook while dinner was simmering on the stove.  My dear friend Amanda-who's son Joshua was in the same orphanage as Pax - had just posted a comment about the safety of the kids at New Life Link and desperate for information on the kids.  Confused,  I picked up the phone and called her right away.  As she answered the phone she was trying to hold back tears and I knew something wasn't good. An earthquake had rocked the homeland of our boys, and the damage was bad....very bad.  Not to mention, the epicenter of the quake was in the area that the orphanage was located.  She gave me what information she had and we hung up as to keep ourselves open incase any information came in about the boys.  As soon as I got off the phone I turned on the television and watched news on the internet the rest of the night.  We were also able to follow some missionaries that were in Haiti at the time of the quake via Twitter and we kept in touch with the director of our adoption agency.  Basically the whole night was filled with gathering bits of information where we could, on and off the phone, on and off the computer, watching television, and getting Twitter updates, just hoping to see something that would give us some hope.  I felt at peace about their safety.....but I was a mom who needed to get to her son, and right away!