Dominican Housewife Chronicles - The Finish Line

Hello everyone.  I am so excited to report that we finally got a response from immigration about my petition for my husband to come to the United States.  My petition was approved YAY!!!  Now we wait for the approval on this end for his actual visa but after eight long months of waiting I feel like I can finally see the finish line.  I pray this next part doesn't take 8 months.  Reality is setting in for me that I'm going to be spending this coming winter back in PA.  I'm a little sad about that.  My body has gotten accustomed to this warm climate so snow and ice are going to be culture shock for both me and my husband.

My birthday was on August 20th and my husband did a great job pulling together a wonderful celebration for me on the beach.  I love the beach and he tolerates it for me.  One of the many reasons why I love him.  This was the first time we were together on my birthday and I had a wonderful time spending the day with my husband, his family and our friends here.  I did miss my family and friends back home though terribly but they called, texted and sang to me as usual so all was well.  Although I'm not very excited about my birthday anymore, that tends to happen after you reach a certain age.  The one thing I always look forward to my mom's happy birthday song.  I really need to record her singing that song.  You know I love pictures so here's a picture of us from that day. I have no idea who that hat belonged to but it was being passed around and everyone took pictures wearing it.

I've been busy delivering baskets here in the Dominican Republic and I'm happy to report that we met our goal of blessing 30 expectant mothers here.  We actually exceeded our goal.  While delivering the baskets to the expectant mothers we were always encountering young mothers with older infants.  I had some larger size diapers so we made up gift packs for them also which included 12 diapers and a pack of wipes.  We didn't want anyone to feel left out.  While I've been here delivering baskets my daughter Jasmine has been very busy back home working to fill the requests we've received for mothers in the United States.  We sent our first six baskets out last week to expectant mothers in Ohio, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan and Florida.  One of the mom's gave birth last week and she shared a picture of her newborn with us, he's adorable.    We're having an event next week in Harrisburg, PA.  It's an open house and basket assembly event.  I hope the community comes out to learn more about what we're doing and discuss how they can help.  During the event we will assemble the baskets for our October due dates.

I'm headed home tomorrow for a few weeks.  I'm actually going to be home for a week then going to Mexico with my youngest daughter for a few days.  This part is never easy, leaving my husband.  There's so much to do it seems before I leave.  We've both been running around like chickens with our heads cut off for the past few days trying to gather information, documentation etc for the attorney for this next phase of his immigration process.  This was a short update this week.  I'll be in touch and let you all know where things stand with phase two.

Oh just in case you're feeling generous I'm including the link to Paypal site where you can make donations to A Blessing For You.

https://www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/3398122