T-3 weeks and counting

I'm not sure how to begin this post. It has been a bit crazy around here. Everyone has been so excited and happy for us. We really appreciate it.

I think the most common question has been, "Aren't you excited?"

Of course we are, but we are also overwhelmed and panicked. We have been praying for this for so long, and now it is finally happening! It is a bit hard to take in.

We also hit a new road block this week. We learned last Friday, we have to redo our entire home study before we go in order to renew our US government paper work. It threw me into a bit of a tizzy to say the least. Thanks to our wonderful friends and family, we were able to get ALL OF THE PAPERWORK together in one weekend. This is pretty much miraculous. I paid the fee for the government forms this morning (ouch) and then turned in all the papers to our homestudy agency and paid them as well (double ouch). With the papers now turned in, we should be okay. Worse case scenario is that I have to stay in Kiev with the child/ren while, Bruce comes back to get a week or two of work in before we come home.

We are both frantically trying to get the house ready and get things at our work tied up and ahead in preparation for our long absence. Pray for Bruce, especially, as he has a mountain of paperwork he needs to get through. He is pretty overwhelmed by it all.

There is a new link to the blog of one of the families traveling with us. Her page has links to many other families that are adopting from Ukraine. Many of them are in country right now. Their blogs will give you the best idea of what we may experience. So far, it seems that everyone is having very positive experiences! They also seem to have no problem getting to the Internet to post to their blogs.

That's all for now.
Peace of Christ,
Lori