Summer so far

First S'more, toasted on the beach

Everyone enjoying a beach fire s'more

Cupcake insisted on this entire outfit, worn sans diaper.

Trying out the new stairs off the deck.

If I'd known...

that we'd be interviewed on vacation for Channel 4, Boston's CBS nightly news, I would have brought a better hairdryer on vacation. Eileen Curran, an on air reporter/anchor for WBZ-Boston and a cameraman schlepped up here last night in the rain, missed their first attempt at getting on the 5 o'clock ferry and barely made it off the island on the last boat after filming us. It's an adoption story if you hadn't guessed. She originally said it would air tonight on the 11 o' clock news, but then last night she said they might delay it so they can promote it more first. So, if you live in the Boston area and have WBZ, channel 4, CBS-Boston on your tv, watch for us. I have NO idea how the story will turn out: what they'll cut or how they'll edit it, but they got a good deal of footage of us with the kids, interviewed #1, and interviewed me and J. When they know for sure when the story will air, they'll let us know and we can send a link to their website so those of us w/out tv or out of the Boston viewing area, can still watch it. And see my flat, air-dried hair.

Stay tuned.

Guatemala900 trip

I marched, chanted, lit candles, met w/ a 20-something legislative aide, spoke with two State Dep't employees and ate out without any of my kids for two days. Articles appeared in the Washington Post and the Miami Herald about the march and our cause. We met some great people including the Deputy Ambassador to the USA from Guatemala. And I had a fun time with my travel companions too. Did any of it do any good? Probably nothing can or could have for our particular case, but to get the US and Guatemala to work toward finishing up the hundreds of in process cases behind us, maybe. For more info on the group that organized the march and links to the newspaper articles about it, check out www.guatemala900.org

I have another phone consult with another immigration attorney tomorrow morning, and then we hope to firm up our game plan in our fight to get Ali home.