Sunday, February 26, 2012
Happy B-Day DJ!
DJ is 10 today, and I just want to say Happy Birthday again to our oldest son. We love you very much and happy that you are our son!
Friday, February 17, 2012
"I will not give you to someone else. "
Since we brought our son home, little bit over 2 years ago, he always gives us "love" little notes. I love receiving them from him. DJ is very loving boy, and he loves to show it. When we just brought him home he would not stop kissing us and he would do it every where home, in public, church, I really mean everywhere. lol
When I was growing up, as a child I never worried that my parents will give me away. DJ knows that we are his family and we love him, and no matter what happens in life he will be always our son.
When he writes his notes, he always mentioning "I will not give you to someone else", "I will always love you" "I will never forget you". For him it's really important to let us know that this is how much he loves us. It's been more then two years and I am not sure how long will it take him to heal completely.
I just cannot imagine how deeply his heart is broken. We are praying that God will heal DJ completely.
DJ 's English is improving. I think he is doing good job on being home only 2 years, and living in Ukrainian family. At our home we do speak only Ukrainian. Also we do work with DJ on his Ukrainian everyday, reading and writing. I know that it make is harder for him to learn English, but it will be nice if he can keep Ukrainian. I really do want our kids to be able to read and write in Ukrainian.
Last note I got was today(for Valentines day) :
It's hard to see on the picture, so I will type it here:
Dear Mom,
Mom I love you wery moch. Mom I love you, you and dad are the best parents. I want give you to some one els noul. Mom I'm sall sarry for bing min to you and dad. I will never forget you and I love you. Mom I love you. I will for get you all the time. Love you Mom.
Love Daniel
When I was growing up, as a child I never worried that my parents will give me away. DJ knows that we are his family and we love him, and no matter what happens in life he will be always our son.
When he writes his notes, he always mentioning "I will not give you to someone else", "I will always love you" "I will never forget you". For him it's really important to let us know that this is how much he loves us. It's been more then two years and I am not sure how long will it take him to heal completely.
I just cannot imagine how deeply his heart is broken. We are praying that God will heal DJ completely.
DJ 's English is improving. I think he is doing good job on being home only 2 years, and living in Ukrainian family. At our home we do speak only Ukrainian. Also we do work with DJ on his Ukrainian everyday, reading and writing. I know that it make is harder for him to learn English, but it will be nice if he can keep Ukrainian. I really do want our kids to be able to read and write in Ukrainian.
Last note I got was today(for Valentines day) :
It's hard to see on the picture, so I will type it here:
Dear Mom,
Mom I love you wery moch. Mom I love you, you and dad are the best parents. I want give you to some one els noul. Mom I'm sall sarry for bing min to you and dad. I will never forget you and I love you. Mom I love you. I will for get you all the time. Love you Mom.
Love Daniel
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Adopt us....please!!!
While our stay in Ukraine, we used an opportunity to visit local (in Kiev region) orphanage. We bought a box of mandarins, bananas and few other treats for kids. It was small, family type orphanage, kind of like foster care here in US.
Kids live in families , 5-7 kids per family and most of these kids are older, 12-16 year olds.
There were 5 different families, they are all under one roof but every family is living on it's own. It was so different from what we saw while adopting our first son, from Donetsk region. Kids are dressed, fed much better and looks way healthier. Kids have an idea what family is. Every night they do pray, kids attend church every Sunday, go to public school, and have a better life than kids in regular orphanages.But kids are still orphans and they needs to be adopted and have a real loving family.
We had an opportunity and privilege to get to know kids more from one particular family. There were few younger kids in this family.
At the time we were saying "bye" to the kids, one of the kids(6 year old) came up to my husband and put his head on his shoulder and whispered into his ear "Can you adopt us, please"? (this kid has another sibling) Tears ran down my face, and I saw tears in my husbands eyes. Our hearts were broken with this words. It's so hard to leave all this kids behind us, and I wish we can take them all, and keep few of them, and find families for rest of these kids. We are praying for all the little kiddos out there!
Kids live in families , 5-7 kids per family and most of these kids are older, 12-16 year olds.
There were 5 different families, they are all under one roof but every family is living on it's own. It was so different from what we saw while adopting our first son, from Donetsk region. Kids are dressed, fed much better and looks way healthier. Kids have an idea what family is. Every night they do pray, kids attend church every Sunday, go to public school, and have a better life than kids in regular orphanages.But kids are still orphans and they needs to be adopted and have a real loving family.
We had an opportunity and privilege to get to know kids more from one particular family. There were few younger kids in this family.
At the time we were saying "bye" to the kids, one of the kids(6 year old) came up to my husband and put his head on his shoulder and whispered into his ear "Can you adopt us, please"? (this kid has another sibling) Tears ran down my face, and I saw tears in my husbands eyes. Our hearts were broken with this words. It's so hard to leave all this kids behind us, and I wish we can take them all, and keep few of them, and find families for rest of these kids. We are praying for all the little kiddos out there!
Thursday, February 9, 2012
We are home...
It's been almost a week since we came home from Ukraine. We are finally over time changes, everyone is in routine, and life seems much easier :) We found out many new things about each other during this trip. All our kids do much better with routine and schedules.
Danik had some independent study to do during trip, so he was busy.
Danik did miss school, and was happy to go back to school. I was thinking to let him stay home on Monday( we came home late Saturday), but Danik really wanted to go to school and I did let him.
The only thing Denny was talking about, missing the whole time we were in Ukraine, was MARIO :) For this Christmas we got Wii, and Mario is one of the games that came with it. We had long talks, almost everyday about Mario. lol
ElliAna, is doing much better home and looks like she is starting to remember that she has a daddy too :) At the moment we got to the plane to fly to Ukraine, and the whole time while in Ukraine and till the moment we got back from the plane last Saturday, she wanted to see, hear, touch, and deal only with mommy, me :) It was interesting times, hard times, but it's over, and we have only memories.
I am sad when I look at my kids, and I do thing about kids we left behind. Every time our kids are playing, or eating, I am thinking about my other kids. It's hard, but at least we have hope. We will return to bring our kids home.
We are looking forward to our second trip to Ukraine, and already planning. We have many little things needs to be done around the house to prepare more, and we will keep ourselves busy.
*We do have best facilitator, and him and his wife helped us a lot. He was not only doing his job, he was going extra mile for us. We do appreciate all the help we were getting. This is our second adoption with him, and we are so happy God led us to him, and we have a great person to rely on.
Danik had some independent study to do during trip, so he was busy.
Danik did miss school, and was happy to go back to school. I was thinking to let him stay home on Monday( we came home late Saturday), but Danik really wanted to go to school and I did let him.
The only thing Denny was talking about, missing the whole time we were in Ukraine, was MARIO :) For this Christmas we got Wii, and Mario is one of the games that came with it. We had long talks, almost everyday about Mario. lol
ElliAna, is doing much better home and looks like she is starting to remember that she has a daddy too :) At the moment we got to the plane to fly to Ukraine, and the whole time while in Ukraine and till the moment we got back from the plane last Saturday, she wanted to see, hear, touch, and deal only with mommy, me :) It was interesting times, hard times, but it's over, and we have only memories.
I am sad when I look at my kids, and I do thing about kids we left behind. Every time our kids are playing, or eating, I am thinking about my other kids. It's hard, but at least we have hope. We will return to bring our kids home.
We are looking forward to our second trip to Ukraine, and already planning. We have many little things needs to be done around the house to prepare more, and we will keep ourselves busy.
*We do have best facilitator, and him and his wife helped us a lot. He was not only doing his job, he was going extra mile for us. We do appreciate all the help we were getting. This is our second adoption with him, and we are so happy God led us to him, and we have a great person to rely on.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Coming back with .....
We are coming back to USA with out kids. It's not why we came here, and not what we expected to have at the end of this trip but we have a peace about this whole situation. We see more reasons for us to be here, in Ukraine now. I know it doesn't make any sense, but we see God's hand in everything. I can't share too many details, probably can't share any details, but once it's over I will explain, share everything. We will be traveling to Ukraine in 3-4 month's again.
For now, please pray about our family, kids!
Paperwork
Finances( we had this trip, and we didn't plan it to have another one) we had to loan money for this adoption, and in few months will have to loan even more. :((
In few days we will be home .... I know it does sound bad, but we are happy, and we see light at the end of the tunnel :) We are sad to leave people we met, behind us, but we have no choice. We know God has a plan. :)
For now, please pray about our family, kids!
Paperwork
Finances( we had this trip, and we didn't plan it to have another one) we had to loan money for this adoption, and in few months will have to loan even more. :((
In few days we will be home .... I know it does sound bad, but we are happy, and we see light at the end of the tunnel :) We are sad to leave people we met, behind us, but we have no choice. We know God has a plan. :)
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