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We're off to Odessa 7 Nov 2008 | 01:31 pm
This was around 6 p.m. Wednesday evening. We went to pick up our "Official Referral Letter" from the SDA. This is the document that gives us permission to meet the kids. Inside these doors is total ma...
We've been Busy! 7 Nov 2008 | 01:31 pm
Sorry it has taken us so long to post! We get a very week signal in our apartment and can barely get email open. Not enough signal to get onto blog or yahoo. We met the kids on Thursday and since the...
We went to court! 7 Nov 2008 | 01:31 pm
We had our court hearing today at noon! It went very smoothly. The judge asked us a lot of questions that we were prepared for and then declared the court approval for our adoption of Lauren Valerie a...
George and the Doctor 7 Nov 2008 | 01:31 pm
Well we had the Ukranian Doctor experience! At least George did. He has been concerned about his cold not improving so Roman our facilitator took him to the "adult clinic". The doctor was very nice; h...
A Real Ukranian Tradition! 7 Nov 2008 | 01:31 pm
A couple of nights ago our landlord (Sasha)stopped by to say hello. He is renting us his sons apartment for the short time we are here in Odessa. George told him he wasn't feeling well. So off went Sa...
Our Gang! 7 Nov 2008 | 01:31 pm
This is the one and only restaurant near our apartment. We have been there twice so far. We are fortunate that we have such a great facilitator, Roma and also we have met and become friends with anoth...
Historic Odessa 7 Nov 2008 | 01:31 pm
We putzed around historic Odessa yesterday. The weather has been incredible here. I swear it felt like 60 degrees F. And today as well. We are so lucky, this has been their mildest winter in 500 years...
We're going to the Circus! 7 Nov 2008 | 01:31 pm
Mylene and Patrick from Quebec are here adopting 2 brothers (Leo 4yo and Andre 18 mos.). Mylene had a wonderful idea of treating Leo’s groupa to see the circus as a special Christmas treat. She was so...
Christmas Eve Bananas 7 Nov 2008 | 01:31 pm
This was on Christmas Eve during the day. The kids sure do love their bananas! They are not used to getting fresh fruit. So the banana is a great treat. They are tasty and sweet! They also love yogurt...
Hide and Seek ~ Siblings 7 Nov 2008 | 01:31 pm
We were playing hide seek around one of the buildings at the orphanage. I didn’t see Lauren and Donnie for a few minutes and heard some screaming. Well what did I find . . . . Lauren was beating the “...
