My head has been spinning for the past 24 hours. We found out late yesterday afternoon that our SDA appt is August 29th. YAY! We are so excited to finally be going. It will be a year since we said goodbye to Ana.
So much to do. The 29th is the first day of school. So this means the kids will all be missing the first couple weeks of school and I have to write a book for a sub to start the school year off with 3 year olds. It should be interesting to say the least. Someone said to me today - "Well, at least you will miss all the crying in the first week!". I hadn't thought of it that way - and there is always a lot of crying! But those first weeks are so important in building our K3 classroom that I'm sad to miss it. I just hope I can give the sub enough guidance and info to survive it - the first weeks are brutal!
But, we can't wait! Trying to find tickets and feeling lucky that we have a month's notice. Definitely less expensive that way. Making arrangements for everything else that needs done before we go. Lots to keep us busy over the next couple of weeks.
Please pray as we try to decide if Kyle will be able to make the trip with us. His ACL surgery is August 1st and the dr said he will be ok to travel but we are starting to worry that it will still be hard for him to get around and Ukraine is not that best place for that! But we need to decide before we actually know what he will be feeling like because we need to purchase tickets.
So happy to finally be able to share this news with all of you!
Friday, July 29, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
No Date but...
Still no date to report but we did spend over an hour skyping with our agency director today and feel good about it. If we were to predict a date it would be around the week of August 21st. But, we know how predictions go in this process. The good news about this time frame is that Kyle will, most likely, still be able to go since his surgery is August 1st. The down side is that the first couple weeks of school will be missed by 5 of us. The first weeks are so important in understanding the teacher's expectations and routines and I really don't want the kids to miss them. Plus, I do not want a sub to start my school year. So, even though it puts us even later, if I could pick an ideal date at this point it would be after we were in school for a week or two. But, the perfect date would be tomorrow!
With no date it is hard to make any travel plans although, we do have some things we can work on while we wait - getting some clothes for Ana, figuring out how to pack 6 of us to fly 1/2 way around the world, trying to get the house more organized in order to survive with 5 kids. We also have some important decisions to make regarding Ana's birth certificate, school, who is staying behind if the process takes longer than expected.
Sometimes it is the little things that make such a difference about how you are feeling. We have been pretty down about how long this process has been taking us but last week I received an email from a friend who also teaches the middle school Sunday school class at our church. He has been researching a Bible that Ana can use during Sunday School time. I don't think he realizes how much it means to us that others are trying to prepare for her to be here too.
Just knowing that there is an entire community wanted her home as much as we do is such a blessing to us. Thank you!
With no date it is hard to make any travel plans although, we do have some things we can work on while we wait - getting some clothes for Ana, figuring out how to pack 6 of us to fly 1/2 way around the world, trying to get the house more organized in order to survive with 5 kids. We also have some important decisions to make regarding Ana's birth certificate, school, who is staying behind if the process takes longer than expected.
Sometimes it is the little things that make such a difference about how you are feeling. We have been pretty down about how long this process has been taking us but last week I received an email from a friend who also teaches the middle school Sunday school class at our church. He has been researching a Bible that Ana can use during Sunday School time. I don't think he realizes how much it means to us that others are trying to prepare for her to be here too.
Just knowing that there is an entire community wanted her home as much as we do is such a blessing to us. Thank you!
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Still waiting ...
Sorry - no good news to report. We are still waiting. Our dossier did not get submitted on July 11th because Ukraine is not accepting any further adoption petitions. We have been told that the Ukrainian President is currently forming a decree for adoptions to begin again and it should be done within the week. So we wait some more. I can't even tell you how we are feeling about this because I am not sure. Jim is upset and angry and feeling like this will never happen. I think I am just numb to it right now. I'm not sure I can even but forth enough emotional energy to be mad or sad or anything. I'm just here and still waiting.
Today when I took the kids to Arts Fest I kept thinking - I was sure Ana would be a part of this tradition for us this summer. The same thing I think when we go to DelGrosso's, the pool, 4th of July fireworks, pretty mush everything we have done this summer.
Please pray for Ana - it has been a long wait and in our last conversation with her we talked that we thought we would be there in a few weeks :(
Today when I took the kids to Arts Fest I kept thinking - I was sure Ana would be a part of this tradition for us this summer. The same thing I think when we go to DelGrosso's, the pool, 4th of July fireworks, pretty mush everything we have done this summer.
Please pray for Ana - it has been a long wait and in our last conversation with her we talked that we thought we would be there in a few weeks :(
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