2 weeks and counting!

Here it is July 1st and we leave for Ukraine two weeks from today! This is so hard to believe - we have been working on this adoption for over a year now. We first contacted Kostya, our wonderful facilitator on June 28, 2003!

Our "To Do" list is huge still! We are in the middle of adding onto our house and right now it is only at the plumbing and electrical stage. Hopefully the drywaller will start next week! We were hoping that everything would be completed before we left, but I'm not so sure that will happen now.

I put in an "order" at our local back for them to hold back new, clean, crisp bills. It is so great to work with a local bank - the teller actually asked today about our adoption and when we were leaving! So, it was really easy to bring up the fact that we needed a lot of new bills.

Anabella, our little 2-year-old, (or she will be on August 5th when we're gone!) has decided it is time to potty train herself. She keeps taking her diaper off and going and sitting on the potty. She actually went in it yesterday! Just in time for us to leave - oh well, maybe her grandparents will get her completely trained by the time we get home from Ukraine!

I'm off to get our letter that we want to send out to family and friends in the mail. But, I wanted to get a post up here before we sent that out! 14 days and counting...

Kristen