Our first 2 pieces...

of GOLD :) All our documents, have to be notorized and then sent to the Secretery of State to be Apostilled..pretty much to certify the certified....we got our first 2 back from Superior Court today!

When we get all our documents gathered/notorized and apostilled...then we will send this..our "dossier" to the Uk*aine to our facilitator...he will then hand carry the translated documents to the State Department of Adoption in the U*raine...we will then, Lord willing wait on them to issue us an appointment date to travel.

My thought at the moment....

I want both the boys :( AND if the Lord would open doors we would have to see open...we would do that ....however for this time, we are peaceful He has us going for one boy, and that is A.

Back in May when we first heard our call to adopt...someone we know who knows "A" said..."Misty, I know a sweet 9 year old who is blind..." AND OFCOURSE my response was "that is too old"....interesting, huh ? When she asked me the same question a couple weeks ago I suppose the Lord had tenderized our hearts to His will, so we were open to praying about "A". Often times we are seeking our own wills and not the will of the Lord...His ways are not always our ways. May our hearts always be tender to hear HIS will.

Our home study is done...

we are waiting on our FBI clearance to come back...it has been 8 weeks, pray clearance comes back soon we can submit our home study to immigrations.

I woke up...

to several treats....

1. a form I have been working on to get right...got our facilitator's approval this morning :)
2. We were given our son's full name (and it is long :) and real birthdate :)
3. We saw a video of him today...it was from 4 years ago..however we LOVED it!

I am sad..

to make this blog private....long story......we were told it to be best at this time in the process to do so, as so much is on the line with this being an international adoption. Hope you all understand and it is not too complicated for you to sign in...thanks for understanding :)

Just in case...

you are running out of things to pray for...then remember us :) We are on a paper chasing spree...some of the things we need we are having an interesting time getting since living in base housing..military.....etc...Pray the Lord will give us a smooth sail and we can get all our paperwork, lab work, finger prints (for the 3rd time..one more time to go :)...all done in a timely manner...we are so ready to get moving!

Today is a good day :)

I had become so overwhelmed with everything going on, I decided last night I needed to get "us" back on a schedule....we started today and it has been a good day :)! I did some shopping today on Amazon...love that site...I can get so many resoures for this adoption at a fraction of the price. We ordered some books for our kids pertaining to the adoption and some biography books for them on some well known people who were visually impaired...did you know many people who achieved much in their life time, were blind. Ofcourse Mike and I got some more books on adoption that were recommended to us by a good friend we have meet on our journey...who have adopted 2 girls from Eastern Europe. We also got some informative books on working with blind children....we have SO much to learn and we are so eager to help our son in anyway possible. We also were recommended to http://www.littlepim.com/ .....we ordered the Russian set of DVD's....mainly so we can have some "basic" communication with our son...we need to understand some of what he is saying in order to meet his basic needs such as love, hunger and ofcourse bathroom :) These will be great tools for any child wanting to learn a foreign language..they have many languages available.

We are also very thankful, so dear friends have ordered for us the English/Russian bible and the Russian bible on CD for us to have in the house for "A". Ofcourse we want "A" to learn English but no need for him to learn english before we can share the bible with him :)...AND our dear friends also ordered a Russian bible and Russian bible on audio to leave in our child' s visually impaired facility. We are very thankful and humbled at their kindness...thank you!