Another amazing story about our journey revolves around friendship. When we decided to be a host family, we were not planning on adopting. We had a girl we were supposed to be hosting and had made plans for her to stay with us. As I mentioned in my previous post, the feelings we had when we got to the camp and saw Ana for the first time were not anything we were expecting. After 2 days, we made arrangements to be Ana's host family. Karina, who we were going to host, would be staying with another family - within hours I found out it would be family that might be interested in adopting her! That much was already amazing. Add to it that Ana and Karina are best friends and have been for quite some time. She will live 6 miles from us!
As we started getting to know this couple, Ann and Stuart, we realized that a quick friendship was forming! We had never met them before however, in just days, we had this instant connection with each other and an obvious connection between the girls. During the time the girls were with us, Ana slept over at their house, we got together for a campfire, and they came to Mary Beth's 12th birthday and even made a cake!
Tonight, while we are all sleeping, Stuart, Ann and Karina's life will be officially changed for ever! They will be in court at 9AM (Ukrainian time). Please take some time to pray that their time in court goes smoothly and a forever family will be created. Our family is so excited for them and their new life together. You can read their story by clicking on the link on the side of our blog - Echols Ukrainian Echoes.
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