You have to read the title like you are that guy from Animal House to appreciate the humor. To say that we are giddy would be an understatement. As a matter of fact, we are a lot of different emotions right now. We got our appointment date (and registration number) for our trip to Ukraine. Our date is .......April 12th!!!! We will be leaving on April 10th. That is not a typo. APRIL 12th!!!!! That is 6 weeks from tomorrow in case you are wondering. It is the Tuesday after Easter. Stacey's semester will not be over yet so there will be some extra work for her to sort out how others will need to cover her while we are gone. God has a wonderful way of working out the timing so we trust that He will work that out too. There will be lots of stuff going on between now and then I would antcipate. The lady that is helping us told us to expect to be gone 4 weeks but we are going to plan on being gone 5. If we get back in 4 weeks, that will be great. Before today, it had just been that we were working on the adoption. It's real now. We have been talking about it and praying with the kids too, but now there will need to be a real sense of urgency in our conversations. I am sure that you can only imagine the concerns as a parent when leaving your children for that long.
The bottom line is that God is good. And no matter what happens, we put our trust in Him and know that he will provide what we need. But for today, please excuse us while we dance with our date.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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Congratulations! I couldn't resist checking to see if you'd heard. Thanks for posting so quickly. Let me know what I can do for the kids while you are gone. I am so excited for you!!
My brother, Mike Day, told me that you had gotten your date. His wife Beth emailed me with your blog address. We adopted our son Anatoli (Toli) almost three years ago. We actually left for Ukraine three years ago yesterday. We left our then seven-year-old behind to go get him and we were gone exactly 4 weeks. It was hard to prepare to leave her and even harder to actually leave her, but we left her in good hands. It seems like yesterday to us. If you have any questions or concerns that we could help with just give us an email: tstevens@nafcs.k12.in.us or lstevens@nafcs.k12.in.us.
Good luck and Godspeed,
Therese and Lewie Stevens
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