6 DAYS!!!!!!!!

I can't believe that after a year of being "paper pregnant" and all the tears it is finally days away. It just isn't hitting me yet maybe because I have been so busy getting travel plans done, cleaning my house, packing, getting my kids ready for a new school year and trying to make sure life will go smooth here while we are gone. It will hit me when I am on the air plane and Cole isn't right by my side and I can't hear Rorie yelling "Mom...." and then just grinning at me!

I am soooo ready to meet the real kids instead of just pictures, I have to look forward to that so that I wont miss my kids or my daily phone calls with my sister in law. How will I function without my routine?????

Fred and I NEED to be held up in prayer:
                                        ~ God's will to be done
                                        ~ God's protection
                                        ~ Our health
                                        ~ Everything to go smooth and quick
                                        ~ Our family at home and our soon to be family in Ukraine

WE GOT IT!!!!!

We got our date!!!! Our SDA appointment is September 5th so that means we will travel the 3rd.... YIKES!!!!!!

Fred always said that when we got our date it would be quick I guess he was right!!!!

Today was all about getting flights arranged and getting people together to nail down child care. (which has been very overwhelming) Next I will be making a list and checking twice?.... No more like a hundred times!!!

Right now I have so many emotions I just don't have time to feel them all out because I leave in 2 weeks!!!! I have been waiting for this for so long and now it's finally happening WOW!!! (So I guess it's kinda like my water breaking right bio-moms?)

A lot of people are asking me: Ok so what's next? How long is the trip? When will you be back?

Here is the best answer I can give, it's not an exact science or anything so this is the guestiment!

We will leave here September 3rd and arrive in Kiev September 4th. September 5th we will have ONE appointment for all 3 kids (Which is a BIG deal for those of you that have not adopted or have only adopted one child at a time, in most cases you must have a different appointment per unrelated child) We will receive a letter of referral allowing us to go into the institution to visit our children and confirm they are the children we want to adopt! There will be a lot of crazy paperwork and then we will get a court date. This will be about 2weeks maybe 3. After court starts the 10 day wait and we will come home for that where last time we stayed. Fred will go back to work and I will relieve our care givers! After a short time home we will return to Ukraine to do a mad rush of final paper work and then we get to spring our kidos FOR GOOD!!!!!!! We will go to Kiev where we will do more crazy paperwork and then we will finally come home!!! (The last trip will be between 10-14days) Again it is not an exact science things come up all the time so we are going to need some serious prayer worriers, we will need strength, wisdom, encouragement, good health and things to just move very smooth. I will have such a hard time being away from home and away from my Rorie & Cole monsters!!!! If I had to guess our new little ones will be home early to mid October so that means I will miss my 30th bday... does that mean it will just wait until next year and I will turn 30 then? Yeah!!!! Sounds good to me!!!!

Things are moving!

Things are defiantly moving which is so great but man are they going slow! We were approved almost 3 weeks ago and just found out that we should be getting a date by Monday! We were also told it may still be an August date which is beyond scary. It's funny because I have been itching to go since last August and I have cried over the slow movement of this adoption and now LOL that its finally here I get the wind knocked out of me thinking oh no maybe I'm not ready yet LOL! Now that the news has sunk in I can't wait to go. I thought I'd have a little more fear but I don't I cant wait to go! Being so close but not having a date is hard, I really can't plan out anything. School is going to start and Rorie will be in all day kindergarten, Cole is getting a new teacher and possibly new ads, our AWANA club at church starts (which Fred is the commander of and I teach a class of girls) not to mention other obligations that we both have! I really need prayer that God's will be done and I get the heck out of His way! LOL...

We have had a GREAT  summer so far and Cole is getting so strong he will be walking before you know it!!!!!