My house is clean, my plants are watered, the kids' bedrooms are prepared, the suitcases are packed, my checklist is accomplished and the last trip is begun! Mark and I are waiting to board our third flight to Franfurt. Tomorrow morning, we'll fly to Kiev before driving to Kovel early Monday morning to get the kids!
On Monday, we'll pick up the court papers and bring them to the orphanage. I think that Nadia will go with us to get her Ukrainian internal passport ( needed for kids 16+) before we get birth certificates and new international passports for both kids.
We hope to find "old style" passports for them because you can get them the same day instead of waiting several days for a new style one. Once we have the papers, birth certificates and passports, we say bye bye to the orphanage and drive to Kiev.
In Kiev, we'll have a few appointments including one at the American embassy before flying home. It should take a few days to do the paperwork in Kiev and we will have a chance to show Nadia and Ruslan the beautiful churches and other sights of historic Kiev.
Andrew is staying with uncle Ray and aunt Janice while we're gone. He's excited about his fun week. Hope (our dog) and Redcat are staying with Thomas and Hope is very excited about having a fenced in backyard. Red cat hates being home alone. Every time we return from a trip he cries and cries for hours to let us know how much he missed us, even with our wonderful cat sitter giving him wet food each day so we decided to relocate him to Thomas' house. He loves Thomas. So far, he's hiding, but not crying!
Thanks for your many prayers and help! We hope this will be a short and joyous trip.
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