Easter Sunday in Antigua...

Well it has just been about 36 hours since Mark left ONCE AGAIN to go back to Chicago. I am really beginning to hate goodbyes and all that is associated with them. This time, when Max saw his Dad drive away in the taxi to the airport, he actually cried. Prior to Mark's departure, we told Max that Daddy was going on a business trip and would be away for a few weeks. We are not sure if he really understood any of this, but it was touching and bittersweet to see how attached he had become to his Dad over the past month.

Needless to say, Mark and I are really hoping that some good news will be coming our way this week as we are in the process of changing lawyers so that our adoption case can progress as it should have so many months ago (this is actually a longer story that we can go into more detail later). We hope that this will finally put us on a better pathway. A pathway that will allow us to come home to the United States! Overall I have really loved this experience and will have TONS of stories for Max when he is older, but we are ready to come home!

Anyway as far as life in Antigua, yesterday Max and I attended an Easter egg hunt with some other adoptive families down here. It has been wonderful to see how Guatemala celebrates Holy Week (Semana Santa), but by Sunday we were ready for a little Easter Bunny activity. Max had lots of fun finding Easter eggs, eating jelly beans, and throwing periodic toddler tantrums - oh, how I love being a single parent in a foreign country...

Enjoy the photos and we miss you all!

xxoooooxxx Jen & MAX