Closer, ever closer

To catch everyone up to speed. We have a date. Yeah!!!! May 14 is the date that will forever be the day we submitted to the SDA. It is finally in thinking range. Michael and I are so very excited and very nervous. So we wait patiently. God is taking care of every bit of this and will not be there (Ukraine ) before our children are ready. I truly believe this and have faith that it will be in Gods timing. With that said let me tell what else is going on in our house hold.
Lady, ( our boxer ) had emergency surgery last week. Yes she is doing OK but it was looking bad for a little while. She had a miscarriage and developed a very bad life threatening infection. Bear ( Our other baby ) know she is not feeling well and has been so supper sweet. Then a few days ago Bear ate a bar of soap. He is a nut. We spent the evening watching him up-chuck soap suds. yes it is a little funny so laugh. We did. As you can see I believe this the Gods way of trying to get us a little ready for the happenings of children in the house. This make me smile because God is so great in the way he has planned my and Michael lives.

Hanging in here...

Yes I am still blogging, just took a long break. All of our paperwork is with our translator. We are waiting for it to be submitted to the SDA. I pray that is sooner than later. On other news Michael is organizing and building in the garage. To make it more useable for a family with children. He is doing a great job. Speaking of jobs. I am tired of mine. We have been very busy and I am not getting anything done. I will be glad when the Flu leaves this area.
I find myself really missing my little boys.. Can not wait to meet them.

Do Over

Well, we started the steps to finding our children in March of 2007. Urkaine reach there quota last month and are not taking anymore dossier until late Jan 08. Good news we do have a place in line to turn ours dossier into the SDA next year. There is a small catch. We will have to redue most of the documents becouse they will expire before the SDA wants them to.. So we just redo them. :)
Michael and I almost have the childrens room completed. Yes is it a boys room. So if we come home with a little girl she will get to help us decorate her room. This means I loose my guest room / extra closet. Not a problem I will get the screen in porch glassed in and turned into that extra space needed. I really like the boys room we are doing and will post pictures when it is completed.
I am actually glad that the Lord is not sending us to Ukraine right now. It will give Michael knee a while longer to heal and for him to get stronger. Remember he had knee replacement surgery in July. It will be great to be visiting Ukraine in April or May. Spring is alway beautiful I hear and my birthday is in May. What a present.

Our translator has had our paperwork for a few weeks now. We FedXed it Oct 23. However , the SDA will stop accepting dossier in Dec. What is means is we will not be in Ukraine Christmas or New Years and will be miss most of the very cold weather. That is a good thing. We just might be there for Easter. That would be great!
It has help us so much by reading other blogs. It keeps me focused on the big picture and the goal. I often wonder if we will be able to this, go to another country where we do not speak the language and be successful at finding our children. Then I think, you know if all of these other people can do this , do can we. It is a blessing to be able to follow their journey. God will provide.

Right now our house hold is in hunting season mode. Michael and Harvey are getting ready to go to Il , Pike co. to find that big one. You know the one. Michael's knee is progressing. It has been 4 months after knee replacement and he is going to try and go back to work and the 17 of this month. Please pray for him as he continues to recover.

It is strange kinda of funny how someone can make something so simple so hard. I want to thank Kim C. for helping me navigate the halls of the State Department. She found out just how the Notary at the state dept want the wording on the doc. Something that could have easily been conveyed to me last week. I even ask and the secret was not passed. Guess, I did not speak the correct language of politics.. But if they ever need the language of pharmacetics I promise to not forget that I am a Southern Lady and "Bless their hearts"

Hopefully and God willing we will once again send the paperwork to the State Department sometime this week. Then onto Ukraine where our translator is waiting.

Ok I just thought that we had everything perfect. When we send the papperwork to the notary at the state department she did not like how we had several doc. So now we are trying our how to make sure she is happy and still doing exactely what Ukraine wants. Talking about being in the middle. I just want to adopt children. All of this red tape is just something we have to learn to contend with for now.
On a litter note. Yes that does say litter. Our Lady Boxer has had 8 yes 8 puppies and everyone is doing great and growing. If you want on let us know.

We are getting closer. Our interpetur has been assigned. YEAY!!!!!! Today I will send everything to Jackson, Ms to get a final OKEYDOKEY and off it goes to Ukraine.