I thought I should post an update about our actual progress here (or rather lack there of). As you know our SDA appointment was August 19. For those of you not versed in Ukrainian adoptions, that was the formal “referral” appointment where they “show” us the child they are offering us and we agree to […]
Missing My Babies
We’ve been here a little over a week now and this is the longest I have ever been away from my children. Skype just doesn’t cut it. Jade kissed the screen yesterday and told us he wants to hug us. Cue the tears. I can’t write about them. I want to tell you how they […]
Beautiful Girls
For months there was just a picture, or two. A split second frozen digitally… that is all we knew of two little girls who waited across the world for us to come for them. I wondered what would they feel like, what would they smell like, what would their voices sound like, their coos, their […]
The Eagle Has Landed
We began our journey grounded in our home city airport because all air traffic into JFK was halted. This meant that before we even took off, we knew our connection to Amsterdam was blown. The very nice lady at the Delta counter told me that she was putting us on the 9:45 p.m. flight from […]
Busy Bee
Remember that list of todos that was in my head? Well, most of it is done! It has been a crazy couple of days… The money snafu… take note, it takes 3-5 business days to move cash money from anywhere to anywhere, unless of course you can wire it, which RR can’t. Western Union, Paypal, […]