Nothing new...

Nothing new to report. I'm sure you guys have been eagerly checking to see the latest updates, but sadly there are none.

Yesterday we took it easy, went to the Baptist church near the apartment and saw the kids. At church this lovely lady came over and shared her hymnal with us (we did the best we could!). One of the hymns was "How Great Thou Art", so sang the English chorus along with everyone singing in Russian. The dear lady tried to talk to us after the service, but we didn't understand hardly a word. Only enough to introduce ourselves, and tell her we were Americans. Oh, to speak the language!

Seeing the kids in the afternoon was a little strange. They were quite solemn, and Mariyana was close to tears. We weren't sure what was going on. We really have no idea if they are getting a hard time about leaving from other kids, from their caregivers, or what. We are getting a little tired of just visiting them and playing. I think we are all bored, and ready to move onto real life. As much as it is nice to see them, it is such an artificial environment. You can only play and interact for so long in this manner!

Kostya is in Kiev right now, hopefully getting our paperwork. We understand that the NAC is in a crazy uproar. They are seeing about double the amount of families as normal, and behind on all paperwork. We are really praying that Kostya gets our paperwork back today. If so, he will get on the overnight train to Odessa, and be here tomorrow AM, meaning we can finally go to court.

John and I took some time yesterday to start doing a little planning for school, schedules, and more. It was actually really a productive time and we are excited about everything we planned. We are just ready to get home and put everything into place!

That's about it for now. Hopefully next time we log in and update it will be after we head to court on Tuesday! In those hopes, we are off to take pictures of places that we might not see again, if indeed we do head to court tomorrow. We want to make sure to have pictures of the social worker's office, the park where we spent many hours...well John is reading over my shoulder and says he already did all that. So, nothing left to do but by our "regular" lunch (icecream) and take the bus back to the apartment for our daily nap...