Aug. 25

Good Morning to you all!
Yesterday we joyfully (and nervously) sent out our two dossiers to Ukraine. They are on their way and should arrive by September 1st. Once received, our Attorney will do his final review. We have been e-mailing scanned documents as we complete them so he can translate along the way. If the original documents are acceptable, he will attach his translated copies to them and submit them to the governing authorities.

Now we wait. And pray for the girls. And anxiously wait some more as these remaining weeks are again completely out of our control. Our attorney will rush the documents through the best he can but we are up to the mercy of the authorities as to when we will be "invited".

Truthfully, our anxieties lie with Ola. She will be 16 at the end of December. According to U.S. & Ukrainian laws, she must be legally adopted in Ukraine, all the paperwork, testing, etc. completed and IN her new home country (U.S.) BEFORE she turns 16.

The Ukrainian process takes 4-6 weeks should everything go as planned. Should there be any hiccups in the process, it will delay things. And of course both girls are anxious to meet us, be adopted and start living with their new family - their "forever" family - one that won't abandon them, one that promises to love them and help them through the rest of their lives. We are excited to be that family.

Please pray for funds to be received by us or to our church (address on right side of blog) to help with the final costs. We do not want anything to delay the girls being able to come home as soon as possible. Should God move your heart to give - thank you in advance. I know from experience you will be blessed.

Until the next milestone along the way.... love your family, neighbors and friends.
Take time to tell them how much you care about them.
Be grateful for what we have here in this wealthy country, even in these hard times.
God is good.

Much love,
John & Jenn