The past three days have been somewhat of a whirlwind. Our "Golden Ticket" came in the mail on Wednesday. Jim spent Thursday preparing the rest of the paperwork and MB, her friend, Gina and I went to Harrisburg yesterday. It took an hour and a half to have it all apostiled but it felt so good to have all that paperwork in my hands with those shiny gold seals!
Jim is at the post office right now putting it all in the mail to Fla. Our agency director is leaving for Ukraine this week and will be hand delivering our dossier. We are hoping to hear about a date the week of the 20th. There a couple of ways this could happen.
The best possible: because we sent in those initial papers in April asking to adopt Ana and a waiver of the submission date, Ukraine could approve us the same day and say we could come whenever we want. She said she has seen this happen in similar situations. Especially with kids Ana's age.
The most probable way it will happen is that we will wait to get a date from SDA which will, most likely, be in July.
The event we don't want: There are many rumors about the SDA closing to reorganize. However, there has been no official announcement of this yet. This is why we wanted to be in by mid June - that was the rumored closing time. We are hoping that we are ahead of the date (whatever it is!)
Some more good news - a phone call to Ukraine! We did not get to talk to Ana because the camp they were supposed to leave for on Friday started early. All the kids in the orphanage go to this 3 week camp in June. We did get to talk to the director and she was very excited that we were coming. She said , through our friend Liliya, that Ana (Nastia as they call her there) talks about us often and is waiting impatiently for us to get there. She also assured us that she would get word to Ana that her family called. This was a huge relief for us. With the issues we have been having we were afraid of outside interference but it seems like everything is good with the director and she is happy for Ana.
As stressful as the past couple months have been, I am starting to think that the just waiting might be the hardest part!
Yea!!!! Waiting IS the hardest part!! Will be praying for you all!! God will not let the little things come in the way of the big picture, stay positive!!!!
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