Mironyuk's Adoption Story From Ukraine

Hello from Ukraine

2012-01-28T06:47:00.000-08:00

I just want to say thank you to all of you out there, who is praying for us, and our situation. We are still in Kiev, and still not sure what we will do. Probably will return home, and wait till our kids become available in few month.

We do have peace about this whole situation, and not disappointed at all. I would love to know what was the reason for us to fly all the way to Ukraine now? Only God knows everything, I just wish to know. :)

Kids are doing great, we all had food poison but doing much better now. We been sick almost all week, so kids are still weak, and we haven't go anywhere yet. Sergey is doing all the shopping and other necessary things. It's very cold here, but we have a nice place to stay, and very warm(we even have our window open, it's way too hot).

I am not sharing all the details what is going on with our case. But please pray that God will take care of everything, and give us wisdom to make right choices.

Boys with Grandpa :)

Some winter fun! Boys will miss all the snow when we return back to US

view from our window (we were prepare fro cold winter but not for this kind of winter) :)))

God Bless you

Today-SDA Appointment

2012-01-24T06:07:00.000-08:00

Today we had our SDA appointment. It was not successful. Kids we were hoping to adopt are not eligible for adoption, and there is some issues with paperwork. We have two options: come back home and wait when kids become available and come back to Ukraine to finish adoption. Or go to another appointment and try to find different child. We are still not sure what to do. For now we are praying and waiting for some feed back from SDA .

We are good, kids are fine. Baby was vomiting last night, and today, also she has diarrhea, but after a prayer she is much better now. Boy are find, and were in Ukrainian time the first day/night.
We were supposed to be in Ukraine Sunday at 1pm, but do weather issues our flight had to return back to Frankfurt, after almost touching the ground. It was interesting experience, but we do appreciated Lufthansa to offer us a hotel and take care of our family for their expenses. We had a good night at Frankfurt, good food, and kids were well rested. More details to come, baby fusing.

Less than 1 day

2012-01-20T14:43:00.000-08:00

We had a very busy week, preparing for our trip to Ukraine. We had a lot of ups and downs, but looks like it everything working out and we are truly blessed by our God.

In Kiev we have a place to stay (friends of friends), and Sergey's dad will come to airport to pick us up.

I was trying to pack light , and take less stuff as possible with 3 kids on board, and I think I did a good job :) only 3 suitcases, and 3 carry-ones.

Boys are very excited, and ready to go.
Yesterday DJ, before going to sleep, came to me and while sitting on my lap, asked for a song(I am a horrible singer), but I think kids don't mind. After I was done "singing", DJ said " Mom, we are leaving Saturday early morning, and I like to sleep in on Saturdays, please, make sure you wake me up" Funny boy, :)))

DD, small Daniel, counting days until we leave, and crossing on the calender. He agreed that it's ok to leave his BOBBY at home. Bobby, this is a name of his stuffed dog. I have no idea, why Bobby, and I think DD was 2, 5 when he came up with this name. Now, DD, will not even go to bed with out his Bobby :))) I am still thinking, take it or not with us.

We are still not sure who we are adopting, but please keep praying that God move mountains. As soon as I can, I will share more information about our new kids. There is a huge possibility that we might have to move our appointment date with SDA for few days later, do to some paperwork. :( Please pray, it's all in Gods hands.

Christmas EVE

On New Year we did our own photo-shout.

New styles by ElliAna Rose lol

Christmas Cookies, after baking with kids, we did little plates of cookies, card, and took it to few neighbors

God Bless you!

9 more days

2012-01-11T19:24:00.000-08:00

We are so excited , but there is many things that we do worry about it and praying.

We decided to take kids with us, we have no one to watch them here at US. I know it's not going to be easy, but we have no other choice.

Our kids deal bad with changes, so please pray about this.
The most I worry about our Danik, he has some health issues, I never talked about on here, and I will not go into details (maybe some other time). Please pray for our son, that travel and time changing will not cause any problems.

Denny should be fine, he might get a little whinny but we will deal with it :))

Baby ElliAna, I have no idea, how she will react to all changes. I hope that as long as I am with her, she will be fine.

I am doing some packing already, making lists(what to buy, take, pack, do) before we leave to Ukraine.

We have one more prayer request, there is kids that desperately needs a family, but in order for us to adopt them God has to do a huge miracle. Please pray!

Happy 4th Birthday Daniel D(Denny)!

2012-01-10T23:34:00.000-08:00

I can't believe that my Denny is already 4 years old. Time flies so fast and sometimes I wish to get back to the moment when I touched, and hold Denny for the first time!

He is full of energy, funny, goofy, and loves his brother and sister.

Happy Birthday Denny! We love you!!!

Less than 2 weeks

2012-01-09T21:49:00.000-08:00

We have less than 2 weeks before we leave to Ukraine and I still have so so many things to do.
Please pray for us, for our family!'

Thank you

God Bless you

We have our appointment date :)

2012-01-03T21:04:00.000-08:00

We have an appointment at SDA on January 24, 2012. We are excited and now I am worry to get everything done before we leave. We have less than 3 weeks to get tickets, get ready, pack and be ready to go to Ukraine to meet our child/ren.

Tomorrow we are planning to get tickets, and write down all lists, what needs to be done before we leave.

Now we have an extra bedroom because My brother, he use to live with us, moved out 2 days ago. This is one more project we are working on, painting extra bedroom. The plan is to move boys to this new looking bedroom before Ukraine. And the other bedroom will be waiting for our new child/ren.

2 years home

2011-12-28T09:14:00.000-08:00

I been so busy with holidays, and the whole family being sick for more then a week, I didnt' have a time to post about Daniel J.

December 22, marked 2 years since I pick it up Daniel J from orphanage, and we are so blessed he is our son.

December 26, 2009 we landed in San Francisco, and Daniel J were home with us. I will try to post later about his progress over these 2 years, and he did make a lot of progress.

We are so thankful to our God for Daniel J , for keeping him safe, and for allowing to be his forever family.

We love you Daniel J!

Still waiting...

2011-12-28T09:07:00.000-08:00

We are still waiting to receive our travel date. At least we do know that our dossier has been approved and registered on 12/16/2011. SDA still don't give appointment dates. So we are still in waiting position, but at least we know that our paperwork is fine.

We had a great Christmas, but we were thinking a lot about our child/ren, we do pray for the. And I still keep repeating to myself that "God has a plan" lol.
Our facilitator thinks we will travel late January-mid February, but again only God knows. As soon as I know something I will post.

Thank you for all of your prayers, and encouragement.

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-26T00:31:00.000-08:00

We had a wonderful day! Kids were good, and we got a lot of family time.

Happy Birthday Jesus!!!

Not traveling yet... but

2011-12-14T11:30:00.000-08:00

It's been a long time since I posted my last post. We been busy, and holidays coming, and many, many other things had been going on, and I was not in the mood of posting.

Updates on our adoption. We been submitted in November, but SDA was not giving out travel/invitation for the last two month, so we been just waiting. Last week we found out the SDA had reopen, and functioning as usual so from our facilitator words, we should expect to get our official invitation next week.

We are praying for Gods perfect timing for everything. I will post more if I have time, also will try to post some pictures.

God Bless you

Not submitted

2011-11-09T20:47:00.001-08:00

We didn't' go through submission process, choose to be on the safe side, and did rescheduled our submission date for November 23. Will try to write a post on this. Been very long day, and it's time to go to bed.

Dossier in Kiev..

2011-11-07T19:32:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to let everyone know that our dossier made it save to Kiev. Praise our God. Thank you everyone for your prayers. Its a long story, and we were sure that we will miss this submission day, but....

We took our envelope to FedEx on November 1st, around 4:30 pm, and they had their pick up for a day already. So they said that our envelope will leave their office on Wednesday, at 4 pm. When I check our tracking # on Thursday morning, November 3rd, system couldn't find anything for our tracking #.
Sergey had to call FedEx office to see what is going on. Lady at the FedEx office said, that they had some issues with pick up, and our package was still at the office. My heart dropped, I knew that there is no way that our envelope will make it before our submission.Actually our envelope left local office November 3rd evening, and did 3 stops in US before leaving to Ukraine. Also Fedex promised that our envelope will be there on November 10th, and it's after our submission day. But God is amazing God, and it took less then 2 business days for our envelope to make it to Ukraine, and be delivered to our facilitator!!!!

*** We are getting closer and we already preparing for our trip. Little by little we are getting warm cloth for everyone, and stuff that we will take with us. I am getting more nervous and cant' wait for everything to be over, and have our child/ren home with us.

Dossier on the way to Ukraine!

2011-11-02T19:09:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we mailed our dossier to Ukraine, and if everything will go smooth we will have our submission date next week. We are very excited and ready to go to Ukraine to find our child/ren. But we put all our paperwork, time and everything into our Father's hands. Please pray with us for next week submission date, and for our paperwork get to Ukraine on time.

Thank you

God Bless you

We are alive :)

2011-10-24T21:52:00.000-07:00

We are still home, and praying that by this submission date we will have our I171H.
We had our fingerprints scheduled on October 20, but we went to our local office and they took us in and we were able do our fingerprints on October 11.

Once our paperwork got to USCIS it seem like everyone who had to do anything with our paperwork had to take vacation at the same time :)) First it was our case officer, she took her vacation two times while reviewing our paperwork :) On the 14th of this month we finally were approved by our case officer, and our paperwork went to Supervisor, for another approval by him. And we found out he was on vacation all last week, and came back just today:) So we are waiting again and praying that he will have our paperwork out of his office today, or tomorrow.

I just know God has a plan, and now when girls that we liked to adopt are adopted and have a family, God does have a different plan for our family.

Looks like we will have to spend Christmas and New Year in Ukraine. It should be fun ! Last time I spend New Year in Ukraine , was 13 year ago.

Girls have a family

2011-09-28T14:35:00.000-07:00

Last week we found out that girls, we prayed for , have a family. We are very happy that they got adopted. I guess God has a different plan for our family.

On the sad side, we didn't make it for our submission date, and now we will have to reschedule, and have it a little later. Delay is on our officer/case worker side. A week ago she was on vacation, and didnt' pull our file, and we didn't get scheduled for fingerprints. But now, we are not in a hurry to travel, since child/ren we want to adopt are unknown by us, only God know a perfect timing.

But it would be nice if we can come back home with our kid/s, before New Year.

Please pray....

quick update

2011-09-14T20:19:00.000-07:00

We been super busy lately, and there is just no time for everything. I am not sure if we will get our USCIS approval for our submission date, most likely our submission date will need to be reschedule.

We Just have remember, God has a plan.

Last week we been working on our last pieces of dossier documents, and we have most of them. Still waiting for employment letter, and house letter, but we should have it in our hands this week.

We are still praying and thinking about girls, and I am working hard to find out any info I can to get back in contact with them.

We still need a lot of finances for this adoption, and we know that God is in control.

Please pray

Labor Day Weekend!

2011-09-06T16:26:00.000-07:00

We had a great Labor day weekend. Sunday spontaneously we decided and went to the ocean. We had a good time as a family!

Daddy and his princess! This girl not scared of anything!

My little handsome boy! He is starting to show this cute personality, always make everyone laugh !

My oldest handsome son, with beautiful eyes! He is best son, and best big brother!

Guess who took this picture! Danik did a great job!

Just me

Kids played in the sand!

Danik has a little helper :)

Playing in the water :) Everyone had a great time!

Brothers

And Monday we spend all day home. Was very nice, quite day.

Our lunch. Corn, potatoes, pork, shish kabobs, and kids had hotdogs.

Everyone waiting for food...

Garlic Bread

Salad

It's seems like lately we do have better family days. I really want to post about changes in us, and Danik in the past few months.

He is With You - Mandisa

2011-09-06T10:20:00.000-07:00

This song is very powerful! Every time I hear this song, it makes me realize that I am not along, and there is time for everything. And after hard times/tears will be laughter, and joy! This song always lift my spirit up!

Been a hard week...

2011-09-02T18:49:00.000-07:00

This week was a hard week for me. I am emotionally very tired.

Danik got in-trouble in school few times, made few bad choices.Nothing big, just boys stuff :) Also he made bad choices at home, and got in some trouble.
He got his first citation at school yesterday for kicking his ball after a drill. He and boys were playing basketball game and when drill went on for recess to be over Danik needed few more shots to win, so he through a ball few more times to be a winner. Actually it made me smile. I wasnt' happy that he did follow school rules, but Danik is very competitive and if we regulate his skills in good directions he will be very successful in his life.

Denik, and Elliana were on and off with whining and crying. I think they are fighting a cold or something. Baby doesnt' sleep through a night yet, and it been hard this last week.

Also we are still waiting for USCIS response. Last thing that they told us it was that we do have a case worker, and she will contact us, but nothing yet.

Other documents getting together, and by the end of next week we should have all or most of the documents needed for dossier in our hands. We trust God with our adoption, and we know that HIs hand is in every our move.

I love God, my family, and my life :)

Few pictures, not too many words.

2011-09-02T17:28:00.000-07:00

This is what I found in our kitchen, on the wall. From Danik. Bring tears to my eyes.

Portland, OR at the park

Visiting my grandfather, in Portland, OR

My mom and kids

My mom and Danik

My handsome boys :))

This is new Hollywood smile from baby Elliana :)))

Got our certified letters

2011-08-26T16:40:00.000-07:00

We got our Certified Letters in the mail August 24th, and Sergey's was not a correct format, it was not certified. So Yesterday, Sergey spend his morning on the phone with Department of Justice, and today we got the correct copy of his Certified letter. One thing off our list to do :))

Also our medicals are at doctors office, Sergey put in request for employment verification, our Realtor working on house letter, USCIS has our home study and everything looks like under control :)))

God is good. And thank you for all your prayers, we feel them. :)

submission date!

2011-08-23T11:58:00.000-07:00

We have our submission date, and are very excited. Now, that we are getting closer to meet our child/ren, satan is attacking more, and we are Praising our God. If satan is trying to get in the way, it means we are doing Gods thing and satan doesnt' like it.

I will not post our submission date here for now, but I will tell you it's soon, and I really hope that we will be able to get all our paperwork ready by that date. I haven't hear anything from USCIS yet, and this is main document we need in order to be submitted.

Please pray with us, we need your prayers about all the documents and process.

Will think twice...

2011-08-19T13:52:00.000-07:00

I wish all people would first think about other people, then money. Unfortunately for some people money is more important then little children life, and their happiness.

Until we bring our kid/kids home, I will not share a lot of personal information. Also I will not talk/write about child/ren that we want to adopt, or planning to adopt. For now, what child God has in His plan for us we have no idea, only God knows. We can think, we can plan but God has His own plan.

***After receiving few comments(i will not post them now), I am making this decision to think twice before sharing info on here. And I wish people would know all the details before commenting.

Home study in Ukraine..

2011-08-18T16:10:00.000-07:00

Today I received an e-mail from our facilitator "V". Our home study is in his hands, and ready to be register with SDA.

His question was if we know when we will have our USCIS Approval, and I have no idea. If everything will go as last time, we should have it with next 4-5 weeks.
"V" will register us and ask to have a submition date probably late September, just to be sure that we will have all our documents. If we would send our home study to USCIS when we received it, we would probably have done our fingerprints, and in next 2-3 weeks would have our approval. Oh well..... I am getting over it.. :)))

God has a plan....

Everyone who is praying for us, girls, our adoption, thank you so much!

God Bless you

Thinking about girls.

2011-08-17T17:59:00.000-07:00

Today I am thinking a lot about girls. Today is their birthdays, both girls were born on the same day, different years. I really wish to be there with them, and tell them Happy Birthday.

Facilitator "A" acting very "interesting", and I really hope that everything will go smooth in Ukraine.

We are praying a lot about girls, and our adoption process and we know that only God knows if "sisters" are ours. I wish I can just jump on the plane, go to Ukraine, and bring them home, but.....

Please pray for girls, and our adoption process.
Thank you. God Bless you

USCIS approval delay

2011-08-17T17:08:00.000-07:00

Remember, almost two weeks ago we received our home study, and I was in Oregon at that time visiting my parents.
So, when my husband(he had to stay home and go to work every day ) told me that we got home study in the mail, I was very exited. First thing that cross my mind was "I should e-mail our home study agency to make sure they send our home study to USCIS", since we are needed only home study to be invited for finger prints, and get our approval". But I assumed that our agency did it, because they did it last time, during our first adoption. After coming home to California, I was keep thinking to e-mail our agency, and I never did. I was busy with school starting, and other things around the house. Also I was waiting for letter from USCIS to get fingerprinted.

So, today, almost two weeks later I found out that we, ourselves have to mail our home study to USCIS office. We lost almost two weeks of doing nothing. I am very disappointed but trying to look at the brighter side of this little delay. God is in control, and he has perfect timing for everything. I remember our last adoption, and we had a lot of bumps here in USA with our paperwork. Only later we found out that only one day before our appointment with SDA, our son's case become available for adoption, and we were the first family who they showed Daniel's file. If everything would go smooth, and there would be no delays during our first adoption we would never meet Daniel.

I can say for now God is amazing God, and everything happens for a reason.

Our home study in the mail to USCIS (hoping we will get invitation for fingerprints soon). Please pray with us!

First day of school!

2011-08-12T16:48:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was first day of school for Daniel, and I can't believe it he is already in 4th grade. My boy is growing way to fast.

He was very exited to go to school. After school he came home and couldn't stop talking :) friends, school, teacher, lunch, homework, class, etc... even now, I have very exited little boy. :)

I still have to talk to his teacher about Daniel's background, and some other little things. Also I will mention our trip to Ukraine, because most likely we will travel all together, and Daniel will miss a lot of school. Our trip will be hard, but fun :)

Home study

2011-08-10T15:18:00.000-07:00

I was not blogging for some time, because I was out of town. Me and kids had a little road trip to Oregon to visit my parents. I will post more on that when I have more time.

We got our home study this week :))), and are planning to mail our home study and Power of Attorney to Ukraine tomorrow if we get done with notary, and apostile. Very exited about that, and can't wait to get our submission date :))) ready to travel and bring our kids home.

More to come....

School starts soon for Daniel J

2011-07-24T16:42:00.000-07:00

I can't believe that summer is almost over. Daniel J starts school on August 11, and I am so proud of him because he does enjoy his school. We never had problems with him going to school, except the first times after we brought him home. Poor child was crying and saying that he doesnt' want to go to school. After some talking, we did figure it out why. Daniel J was afraid that we will leave him there, and never come back for him. And I told him, we never leave him, or give him to someone else, he is always be our son.

And when I look at him today, it's amazing how far he did come from the time we brought him home. He is more calm, laughing, happy child and he is happy to be in school to learn something new(and of course play with his friends).

It just melts my heart when he come to me and tells me how much he loves me. I am not sure why he always mentions this, but he does say thank you for adopting him often. I even started to joke with him, and tell him that I dont' remember adopting him, and I dont' know what he is talking about, he was always with me, and always been my son :))

My son loves his brother and sister, he loves to play with them, and helping me with out asking, lately he is more offering to help. I just love my son! I never dream to have a son like him. Thankful to our God for giving me opportunity to be Daniel's mother!

Six Flags fun

2011-07-22T19:48:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we decided to go to Six Flags. It's expensive , but I won free tickets we were able to go.

It was a lot of fun, and here is some pictures.

Few more things done

2011-07-20T17:00:00.000-07:00

Today we notarized our last document for our home study, and we should have our home study finalized hopefully this week. :) Also we did our fingerprints at local police station, and I will send them to Bureau of Investigation tomorrow. As long as I remember to get back our certified letter, it can take up to 6 weeks.

Once we have our home study we will start to get all other documents together. And next month or two looks like will be very busy for us, but we are very happy and can't wait to travel to meet our child/ren.

We are very happy that things started to move again, but also I do worry a lot about the process and girls, and "A" facilitator, just too many things. We are praying and we know that God will never let us down.

SDA resumes processing adoptions in Ukraine

2011-07-15T16:41:00.000-07:00

http://adoption.state.gov/country_information/country_specific_alerts_notices.php?alert_notice_type=alerts&alert_notice_file=ukraine_4

Happy tears :))) Praise our LORD!!!

Home study update....and "facilitators"

2011-07-13T20:52:00.000-07:00

Summer, and everyone is very busy. I dont' have time to blog, which is sad.

Today I e-mailed our social worker, and she said that we should see our home study draft tomorrow. :) Happy about that. Our home study agency was saying that they have 10 days to get our home study draft, but it took way longer. Oh well, with Ukrainian changes, and with out knowing what it's going to happen we are not in a hurry. We are praying about adoption, and staying calm about all this situation. We know that God is in control, and the only thing we can do it's to pray... and trust God.

After I wrote an e-mail to "our female facilitator"(from now on I will call her "A"), almost 4 weeks ago,telling her that we will not be able to work together, I finally got a reply from her today. She wants to work with us, and she gave us a lot of updates on sisters. I really not sure what we will do about this "facilitator" situation. I am really worry that "A" will do something and we will not be able to adopt sisters. Looks like "A", is in very good relationship with orphanage director. More praying and thinking.....

SDA will be close for...

2011-06-29T16:00:00.000-07:00

Today I received an e-mail from our facilitator saying that the SDA is closing on July 11th. The question when it re-opens remains unanswered. By law it shall happen within 1-5 months period. I know that God has a plan for us, and He is always here for us with perfect timing. Please pray for our family, now we have some extra time to get our finances and get ready to bring our child/ren home. Also please pray for "sisters", and if they belong in our family, God give them peace and send people to take good care of them.

Now we just have to wait, pray. Once we have our USCIS approval we will start collect other documents for dossier.

Father's Day Idea

2011-06-28T20:37:00.000-07:00

When he came home from work Friday night, that what he saw in our living room. Sergey was very exited, and like it a lot.

I know Father's day is over, but I want to post about this idea that I come up for this Father's Day. Me and kids did a little fun craft for daddy . Printed letters from regular word, and cut them out. Glue letters on black paper and this is it. :)

Happy Birthday my awesome Hubby!

2011-06-28T19:37:00.000-07:00

Few days ago we celebrated Sergey's birthday! Everyone who he wanted to invite for his b-day, ether left to camp, or were out of town. So we end up having only his mom over, and one of his cousin. Still it was nice, quite and we had fun together. Happy Birthday my Sergey, I am so lucky to be in you life! Love you very much and wish you the best in your life! I totally forget about camera, and didn't take almost any pictures but here is few pictures.

I didnt' make this cake (i wish)

This is a cake I made, and actually everyone said it did taste better( i think they are saying this to make me feel better, oh well)

Daddy and a princess

Facilitator update

2011-06-23T21:09:00.000-07:00

After a lot of praying and thinking we decided to say no to our "lady facilitator". First we did talk to our facilitator, who we had meet during our first adoption, and he agreed to work with us , and help us to get our "sisters" home. Praise our God! Because when we just found out about "sisters" and did ask our first facilitator if he can do our adoption, he wasnt' really happy, he didn't' want to get in in to "lady facilitator" business.

So after waiting for another week to get our contract and just simple questions answers from our "lady facilitator", we decided it was enough. We dont' need any more stress during our adoption process. Adoption itself is a stressful journey, rewarding but stressful. So now we have our wonderful facilitator Valentin with us. :)

Please pray that "lady facilitator" will not try to get in between us and "sisters". We are hoping that all this process will go fast and smooth.

Today we received last passport needed for our travel, our baby's passport.
Last week we received receipt from USCIS, and waiting for our fingerprint appointment.
As soon as we know something about our home study, we will start on other documents. I think for now we have to do our Certified letters( card fingerprints require for this one), as long as I remember it takes up to 6 weeks.

I think this is it :)

Father's Day Weekend!

2011-06-21T21:01:00.000-07:00

Our weekend was very busy. Saturday we drove 1,5 hours to San Francisco to play on the beach by the ocean. Kids had a lot of fun (us too). It was a little windy, and not hot. It was perfect day to be outside, except we didn't' get a chance to wear our swimming clothes, oh well maybe next time. But we still had a lot of fun playing with sand.

Sunday we went to Auburn, Ca it's 20 minutes away from our home, and did some hiking and throwing rocks in the river. Had a nice lunch together, and had a relaxing day. Here is some pictures.

Castle, we tried to connect to an ocean

Everyone is busy

Daddy digging...

Someone got into trap that daddy made :) Perfect size

Sergey is playing with Danik

Just happy :)

This little guy loves: sand, water, dirt, grass, anything, and everything that dirty or can get him there :)

Burning some energy

IT was very funny, boys got their P& J sandwiches and while Denik was eating his, Danik's sandwich bag flied away(remember it was a little windy). And still holding on to his sandwich , he went chasing a bag, Denik fell 10 times or more, chasing his baggy, but he didnt' let go of his sandwich . He was so proud of himself, when he came back.

LOOK MOMMY I GOT IT

Snacking , watermelon.

I like this picture, just so romantic

And again, I just want to thank God for wonderful husband, and awesome daddy for our kids. Sergey is my sol-mate and I dont' even know why God choose me to be his wife. :)

*pictures from Sunday, I will post later. it's time to put kids to sleep. Also we have some new about our adoption, will share later.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

2011-06-19T18:24:00.000-07:00

House update

2011-06-16T21:45:00.000-07:00

Still working on our kitchen, today I finished all counters, but still can't not decide if I want to change color of our cabinets or leave it as it this. I will post all my before and after pictures.

While doing my painting in our kitchen, I heard Daniel asking me: " Mom, what are you doing? Should we be saving money? And If you are doing this, who is going to adopt "sisters"? It made me smile, he really looking forward to have more sisters, or brothers. I did explain , that it's only little painting , and it doesn't cost much, and we needed to do some touch ups, since we have "little artists in the house" (Denny, and now baby starting to use markers on everything, except paper).

We are really hoping that everything will work out with sisters", and what can we do, yes only pray and do everything from our end, and only God knows what another day will bring.

Did talk with Ukrainian Facilitator

2011-06-16T19:10:00.000-07:00

My husband was able to get a hold of Ukrainian Facilitator, and talk to her for few minutes. She was busy, and couldn't talk, and we didn't' get any of our questions answered. She promised , that she will call us via Skype, but it been two days and nothing. Also still waiting on a contract from her, as she been working on it for a week. Praying that she will have her fees in reasonable range. This lady representing "sisters", and I really, really hope that we will work together well. I do worry about our "relationship" with facilitator, because from the beginning we heard not really good things about her. Oh well, I know it will work our perfectly as God planned. We are learning to trust God more, and with every single step of our life.

Haven't talk to Ukrainian facilitator

2011-06-13T21:32:00.000-07:00

We still didn't get a chance to talk with person who represents girls in Ukraine. Hopefully tonight, or tomorrow we will be able to get through and talk to her. We do believe in our God, and we know He is with us in this process. We just have to do everything from our end, and God will do the rest. We are praying for all little and big details that have to happen before our trip to Ukraine.

Please pray with us! God Bless you

Sunday fun time

2011-06-13T21:04:00.000-07:00

Sunday my husband with two boys went to church and I did stay home with our baby girl (she is still not sleeping through the night), as she was very cranky. After church we at lunch, baby took her nap, daddy with boys played some games, and after baby woke up we went to a park. Here is few pictures.
*Pictures of my husband, I did posted with his permission(I am talking about last picture) :)

Here I come! Watch out! Trying to get ball from boys!

Boys and Daddy!

Nothing to say :) He is really enjoying the swing :)

June 11, 2011 Home Study Visit

2011-06-11T16:09:00.000-07:00

Today we had our home study visit. It went really well and we should have our home study done by the end of the month. Wow, things are really getting to move quickly. Also we found out today that USCIS process takes long these days, so we should be prepare to way for up to 4 month, oh no. We are praying that it will be done much quicker, because girls will be available for adoption in July, and ready to come home. And I dont think that I am ready to travel to Ukraine during winter time lol But if this is the case, and we will have to way, and travel later I am ok with that, as long as God is with us.

Today I received an e-mail from Ukrainian facilitator. She still insist for us to host "sisters" before we move on with adoption.Her story, She is afraid that someone else will adopt them, and if we host "sisters" we will be their family. We wish to host s"sisters" but do to our finances we can't do both, adopting and hosting at the same time, unless we will have all money needed soon.

My husband and I will call Ukrainian facilitator tonight or tomorrow and we will go from there.

Quick update on ...

2011-06-08T16:17:00.000-07:00

Monday we went to post office to send our USCIS application and apply for US passport for our baby. We knew that just before we will go to post office we had to stop at our other bank(we have a saving account at different bank, it just work better for us this way to save extra money :)) to close our account with them and take money to get money orders for USCIS(we had just enough at our saving account to apply for USCIS).

And before we left our house, I am not sure why, but I did check our regular account, and guess what I had see..........yes, our tax return/adoption credit. You should of see me, I did log out and log in back to our account just to check if I am not hallucinating, and after second time checking I told Sergey about money. Praise our God, He knew the perfect timing for this money to come. We were happy...still happy :) This money will go toward our adoption, but we still will pray to get all the money needed to finish our adoption.

So we didnt' go to the bank, we went straight to the post office. :))) And the funny thing is that next day, we received letters from IRS, saying that our case is in the process and we should hear back from them by July 9, 2011. lol

Please pray for "sisters", so Ukrainian facilitator will work with us, and will lower her fees. We heard that this lady that represents "sisters", she wants these girls to come for hosting program first, and then do an adoption. So we will see if this all will work our for all of us. We know and we trust God, that everything will go as He planed.

What else is going on in our house:
This Saturday we have our home study visit, please pray

We started on little remodeling in our kitchen (for now), I am almost done with painting our kitchen cabinets, and we will have to finish with counter tops, and floor.

I start learning about couponing, and so far enjoying. This way I am trying to save more money for our adoption.

Last day of school and home study visit soon

2011-06-03T20:52:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was last day of school. Finally summer is here! Danik is very exited about school being over , and already enjoying his summer. We did sigh him up for summer school, for 4 more weeks, and he is very exited about that. He has one week before school starts, and we are planning a little trip to Oregon. We will see how baby will act for another few days, and then we will decide if we will go to Oregon this coming Sunday/Monday. It's 10+ hours of driving, and it's going to be only me and the kids, Sergey can't go. Baby doesn't' take a bottle, I still only breastfeed her, also she doesn't like car-seats, and it will be a lot of screaming. I am not sure if I want to take this challenge :)

Danik brought home his report card, and I am one proud mommy :) His grades are much better than last time, and his behavior in school is improving. I am still thinking about home school, but I will not even start/try until we bring child/children from Ukraine, hopefully this year.

Also we are doing some remodeling in the house, nothing big: just little pain touch ups, new curtains, in the kitchen new laminate floor, like I said little stuff :))) Today I already painted 3 kitchen cabinets, between cooking and all kids, it was fun. Hopefully I can finish painting my kitchen tomorrow, when Sergey will be home and can take care of kids.

We will have our home study visit June 11. Tomorrow we will try to send our USCIS application, apply for passport for a baby, and do our fingerprints for clearance check.

God Bless you

Danik's first wedding

2011-05-30T22:00:00.000-07:00

Sunday we were invited to the wedding. My husbands best friend was getting married. Sergey was in charge of microphones, and all this sound/music/volume stuff. :))) At the last moment I decided to go to the wedding, and I knew it would be hard.
Danik never been to the wedding, and I wasn't sure how big crowd, loud music, a lot of new stuff will affect him, and Denny doesnt' remember his last wedding, and being very very active 3 year old, I knew it will be hard. Boys did great, I am very proud of my sons, I had to take some coloring books, toys, and other stuff to keep boys busy, but Danik didn't need all of that, he was just watching everybody, and asking a lot of questions :))

Baby, ElliAna, it's a different story, she is a baby and like to run, run, run and sometimes she turn her head to see if mommy chasing her :))) and it's ok if mommy is not behind her, she is keep running :) I don't remember nothing from this wedding, except........my kiddos :) I was happy that I got a chance to be there, and celebrate Sergey's best friend BIG Day. And here is few pictures!

My little cuties! Love them, and can't not imagine my life with out them!

In the car, on our way back home, everyone is tired and ready to go home (especially mommy)

Today Prayers needed!

2011-05-28T20:37:00.000-07:00

1. God be with us through the whole process and everything will be completed in God's perfect timing.
2. Ukrainian facilitator will work with us and will lower her price (this facilitator representing "sisters" in Ukraine, and we heard that she does charge a lot)
3. God provide all the money we need it for this adoption (for today's day we have no money, enough to pay for FBI fingerprints, home study and USCIS only)
4.By the time we will go to Ukraine we will find a babysitter for our boys, or extra money to take them with us.
5.USCIS will approve us for two children( our income is might not be enough)

And we just need God's blessing to be with us, and I know Satan will try to attack, and not let us save these kids, but God will be with us, and we with Gods help we can go through Satan's attacks like heroes.

Thank you

Sisters- Part Two

2011-05-28T20:11:00.000-07:00

I dial a number to speak to agency who listed "sisters". and like I said I was preparing for worst. In my experience agencies, don't really care about kids, they just trying to get more money, its a business. During last few weeks I had opportunity to speak with 2 different agencies, and they all said, fill out application, pay for it, and then we will give you more info on kids. So I knew reality of this world, and business of adoption.

Lady who answered a phone, was a lady who I did talked over e-mails, and when I introduced myself, she said: " This is weired, I was writing down your name, so I can contact you" :))) Perfect timing. I started talking to her, and did tell her that we would really like to do independent adoption, I was honest. And her reply was," I really want to help find these girls a home, I will not charge you, I help you with all your paperwork, These girls are so lost, and they need a family soon" wow, no way, I was not prepared for this.

In the evening I talked to my husband and we prayed and we made a decision to do everything from our end to adopt these girls. And if this is God's plan they will come and join our family. I am trying not to involve my heart, and my feelings, because anything can happen down rough adoption road, but I do think about these girls, and we already praying for them so if this is in Gods plans, He prepare us for their needs and them for us, so we have an easy attachment, and adjustment as a family of 7.

I will tell more information later, when we will be closer, and we know more.

God Bless you

Two sisters, Part one

2011-05-26T20:00:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, on one of the websites I saw two sisters in need, in big need to have their forever family.These girls got my attention, look on their faces, and just something about them....

I did e-mailed listing agency about "sisters" and mine main question was "what country these girls are from?". Inside in my head I thought, they had to be from Russia, Ukraine doesnt' let agencies to post info and pictures of kids, and give a lot of information, so when agencies list kids from Eastern Europe its usually Russia. I pray to God and I was thinking if God wants us to try to adopt "sisters", they will be from Ukraine, but I knew a reality and I was preparing for answer "from Russia".

This morning I was surprised by e-mail from listing agency, replying with "Sisters" are from Ukraine. This was a big surprise. Also "sisters" are available for hosting this summer, and somewhere in July they will be available for international adoption.
Ok God, what do you want me to do next. I talked to my husband, and showed him pictures of "sisters", and our next question was if agency listing them, is their any way to go around agency and not pay "agency's fees", we just don't have that kind of money. Our first adoptions was independent adoption, and we really wanted to do same way our second one. I am Ukrainian myself, so I was really thinking how to go around, and was making plans in my head how I will contact our facilitator, pay him little more money and he can find "sisters" and we will do adoption through him with out involving any agencies.....I had perfect plan in my head :))) God had His, better one.... Proverbs 16:9 “A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.”

Today I decided to call listing agency, after e-mail from their director, Karen. She was asking me some questions about our family, and how serious we were in adopting these "sisters". To be continue.....

*have to go, kids are ready to go to bed, try to post later

Ukraine or Russia?

2011-05-22T19:00:00.000-07:00

We are still trying to decide, and see where God is wants us to go. We were praying and asking God, if He wants us to go to Russia we will need to have all the money soon, but..... We have no money, and we will need a big amount to be able to adopt from Russia through agency...
Also we saw two kids on one of the websites and we were open to adopt them. Those kids needed home study ready family which we were not, we had only 5 weeks to complete our home study, but there is no way we can get ready in 5 weeks.
We talked to agency which is listing two kids, and they said that Russia is very strict with international adoptions, and our income will be a problem/not enough. This agency did have a problem in that region with different family, when judge didn't let the other family complete their adoption do to their income(and the other family were making more money then we do). With all this problems that we might have with Russia, we feel confident to start our paperwork and go to Ukraine. Unless later God will change everything and in His power will change all the circumstances and we will end up in Russia. :))) We have no problems with that.... :)

Also we will feel more comfortable in Ukraine, we know a lot their because we are originally from Ukraine. And somewhere deep in my heart I want to take all my kids to Ukraine with me (crazy) :)) but my husbands dad is in Ukraine, and he didnt' see our 1 year old, and our older son yet , so it would be fun to go and see grandpa lol.

I really want to accomplish while in Ukraine. Be able to go to Danik's orphanage and see his caretaker, I still talk to her, and send her letters and pictures once in a while.

I really, really, really want to go to city where my son Danik was born and try to find his family, maybe get some baby pictures. I really want to do this.

I think this enough, I am in the writing/typing mood today lol

Getting ready for home study.

2011-05-17T18:30:00.000-07:00

We are almost ready for our home study visit. Sense we will have same agency for this adoption, as we did have for our first adoption, they call it re-study. Hopefully we will have our first visit soon, because we are liked "someone", and if it's from God we will go ahead and adopt. We are almost paperwork ready for our re-study, only one more medical appointment left, and FBI live scan.

We still not sure where God wants us to go, our two choices are Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine will be always #1 for us, but we are open for God plan. It just seems like Russia is more strict with rules, and we will need more money to adopt from Russia, if to be more specific, its twice as much money, but if this is the road that God wants us to send we will be happy to go.

Please pray for us and our finances!

Prayers needed! More news to come!

2011-05-13T14:12:00.000-07:00

Please keep us in your prayers, our heart is ready to adopt. We know what God wants us to do, but we have a big financial need, to pay for our adoption. Our heart is open to welcome more "orphans" to our family, to love "unloved", and be a family for little ones who needs mommy and daddy.

But we have a huge need in funding our adoption, and we need funds quick. I can't share all the info now, but I can say we have only little bit over a month to start and finish our home study, and be ready to go! We trust God, and we know that we will have needed money.

Please pray!!! God Bless you

Happy Mothers Day!!!

2011-05-08T07:08:00.000-07:00

My cuties:)

2011-04-29T19:28:00.001-07:00

Here is some latest pictures:) Last week we decided to do a little photo shoot at home, and this is what we end up with. Our little cuties:)

Happy 1st Birthday our princess!

2011-04-06T11:41:00.000-07:00

We all love very much and thankful to our Lord for having you in our life!

Birthday present from us:) First doll in the house:) Hopefully she will play with this doll, because for now she is playing with cars, trucks, hammers, and all boys stuff:)

Daddy, mommy, Danik and Denny :)) We love you our princess

Elliana is almost one year old!

2011-04-04T10:22:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we had a little get together party for our princess Elliana! In few days she will turn one. Happy Birthday Our sweet baby girl.

I can't believe it's a year from a day I had her.

Elliana's story begins in August 2009, story of our little miracle.

We had our son Denny in 2008, and when he was almost a year old we started to think more and more about having another baby in our home. When Denny was around 1

0 month old we started to plan another baby. By the time Denny was 1 year old we were sure that we still want to have another baby and also adopt. There is another story why we choose to adopt, and we I can just tell you that God did call us to adopt, to give love and family to someone who is already born, and in need of love.

So when Denny was 1 year old, we did have our first meeting with social worker, and also were planning to have a baby. When we were pregnant with Denny, I did promised my husband a little girl, and we didn't want our kids to have a big age difference so this is why we choose to have another baby so soon. :)

We knew that it will not be easy to have a baby and at the same time go through adoption, but we trusted God and His perfect timing.

In August 2009 we were almost ready to be submitted in Kiev and still not pregnant but very close to go to Ukraine and bring our child home. In early September I found out I was pregnant, we were so happy and we knew that there is no way we will stop our paperwork because we were waiting for our Ukrainian child to be home with us, all the paperwork chase, and just thinking about all the kids in orphanages made me cry, we knew that there was no way we can stop our adoption, or do it few year later. And again we trusted our God, but it was hard.

We had a lot of worries about going to Ukraine with our 20 month old, me 4-5 month pregnant and a new child who we all will need to attach and learn what is to be a family of 5.

We had our appointment in November, and were back to US late December, by the time we got home I was 6 month pregnant. God was with us the whole time we were in Ukraine, and airports and just every second of our life. My husband had to go home after court, so I was alone in Ukraine with our almost 2 year old, 6 month prego and our new 7 year old son. To say it was hard to travel back and be 15 hours in the plane with 2 kids by myself, it like saying it was easy, it was very hard. I was very worried about our baby inside of me because all of the luggage and our 2 year old was always wanted to be held but everything went ok and I made it through my pregnancy with God’s help.

Like I said our daughter was a miracle from the beginning. When I had her, her lungs did open for her to start breathing. Our baby girl was full term baby, but something happened during delivery, and even doctors couldn’t explain what happened, baby lost a lot of blood (no one knows where, how, and when). So our baby did have enough blood to carry oxygen to her lungs. Doctors didn’t give her to me; I couldn’t even hold her after 12 hours of labor.

I will always have a picture in my head, “doctors got a baby, room full of other people(in a seconds after delivery), I am crying and trying to make anyone talk to me and tell me what is going on with my baby, why she is not crying, and when finally I saw my baby, she was across the room from where I was , baby turned her head and was looking at me, the only thing I saw was her blue little, sweet body and dark eyes looking at me, actually she was looking in direction where she heard my voice, I was still asking everyone “what is going on, if everything ok, I want to see my baby””

Doctors took baby to intensive care, and we were allowed to go and see her later. She had IV, and mask to breathe, and doctors made me sigh papers to give her more blood, because she wouldn’t survive without extra blood. We were very scared to sign those papers, all the side effects, and big possibility that our baby’s heart might not accept new blood and other scary things that doctors were talking, scary stuff. After I sign the papers, we prayed and 30 minutes later we got a phone call from baby’s doctor saying that they will not give her any blood, because baby is fine and don’t’ need any extra blood, and also doctors could not explained how did it happen, they were saying that it was a miracle. We know it was, God did answer our prayers.

Two days later we were able to take our baby home and since then we have a happy, healthy baby. Elliana only stayed 1 extra day in the hospital. She is our little miracle, when I look at her I can’t believe we did go through all this trouble. I was concern about breastfeeding, because I couldn’t feed her when she was in intensive care. While I was in the hospital, Sergey would take me down to see baby and try to breastfeed her, but only during a day, at night and every 3 hours when we were not able to go down, nurses would feed her formula. But we are thankful to our God that till today I am still nursing her, and she is healthy.

Praising our Lord for this little miracle and thankful for every moment of our life. Anyone who looks at our baby would never thought that she did go through all this stuff. Elliana started to walk when she wasn’t even 9 month, she is very smart little princess.

Tomorrow she will be 1, and we love her so much, she always makes us smile.

Happy Birthday our baby girl, we love you! Daddy, mommy, Danik, and Denny

*sorry for all the mistakes, I know my English is not perfect

Last few week...

2011-03-28T14:30:00.000-07:00

Last few weeks were "those weeks", baby is teething, somewhere, somehow Denny got some infection and got diarrhea, Danik got in-trouble at school and off the bus for a week, it means that we have to take him in the morning and pick him up after school. Fun times:) Also other "things" that I will not mention here.

We are trying to look beyond all this little things, and be optimistic. This is temporary, and teeth will come out, and baby will start sleeping through the night, and mommy will be less tired. Denny is much better last 2 days, so hopefully it's over. Danik is learning, and maturing and some day we will all remember this with a big laugh. Even now, I look at all Danik's "getting in-trouble" with a smile(he doesn't need to know this), I just love my boy with all my heart.

We don't have any big news, just every day stuff. We are open for another adoption anytime that God will call us. We might go to Ukraine for another adoption but not just yet, we are praying and waiting, maybe our child is somewhere here...... if not maybe in next year we will got to Ukraine to bring our child home.

A child needs forever family!

2011-03-16T16:33:00.001-07:00

There is a 11 year old girl in California, her current family brought her home 9 month ago from Ukraine, she needs a family. If anyone interested please e-mail me or leave a comment for more info.

Thank you

And please pray that she will have her family soon....

Happy Birthday Daniel J!

2011-02-26T19:52:00.000-08:00

Family/Movie/Popcorn time :)

DJ was very exited about a cake!
DJ has a little helper :))
Can you see this spoon, I think DD is ready :)
Daddy helping with candles.
Mommy cutting cake, and first piece goes to our birthday boy!
One of the Presents from mommy and daddy! (he also got photo album with his pictures from Ukraine, and a LEGO set)

Kids and a hats :)) Cute!

I am done with this :)

My handsome, loving son turned 9 year old today. Wow, we are so proud of him, and wishing him the best in his life. He is becoming a young men, and he changed so much in the last year, we love you! Thankful to our God for bringing you in our home, and giving us the opportunity to be your family. Love you Danik! Happy Birthday! It was just us all day long. In the morning Daddy took boys to get some donuts for breakfast, for lunch DJ choose homemade pizza, and we just relaxed, rented a movie and watched all together. Ok, not all of us was watching a movie, I was taking bubble bath. My awesome husband took care of the kids, and I was able to take a bubble bath....didn't have one in a long time. Feeling good now.

Late Happy Birthday wishes for DD!

2011-02-26T19:32:00.001-08:00

Few pictures from his Birthday in January.

Mommy-this is for me?
Love blowing out candles, even now when my husband and I are in romantic mood, our candles don't survive :)
Everyone loves balloons(best present).
Playing with little sister, do you see her finger....she always trying everything, very gentle with one finger....cute girl

Present from mommy and daddy
I can't open this, please helppppppp!

Happy Birthday DD! I can't believe my baby DD is already 3. He is growing way to fast. We had a few people over, just relatives. Our baby sister not feeling too good, and her teething doesnt' let us do more :) It's ok, maybe next year our Elliana will be older, and we can do more fun things as a family.

More Christmas pictures

2011-02-20T19:52:00.001-08:00

Few more pictures of my kids! Its' so hard to take a perfect picture of 3 of them :) Baby was keep walking toward camera.

My little princess!
Boys had a lot of fun,
Big brother with his favorite sister. My cuties!
They have a special love :)

Few pictures :)

2011-02-18T14:25:00.001-08:00

Decorating cookies ! A lot of fun!

This was 1st experience for everyone to put together and decorate ginger house. It was a lot of funn!

Baby watching her favorite channel "sprouts" She is so cute!

Every time when I do dishes, I have a lot of helpers:) I don't know what is so special about dishwasher, but my kids love to play there with their toys! Usually it's Denny, but lately baby like to be there, and sometimes big brother too.

Busy, busy, busy

2011-02-16T18:30:00.000-08:00

A little update on our family.

We are doing great, yes, we do have our ups and downs, but I think it's normal in every family, especially if kids are present.

Our 10 month old ElliAna is teething and it's not a good time for all of us. She is usually a good girl, independent and can play on her own. This time around, almost for 2 month she likes to be held, and crying a lot......:)) fun times! ElliAna started to walk on her own when she wasn't even 9 month, compare to Denny-with a lot of help he started to walk at 12 month. She is so much fun, and I can't believe that she is already 10 month, time flies.

Denny is fully potty train, and we are so proud of him. He is potty train for more than 6 month now, but still slept in diaper, but now for a month we are with out diaper during day and during night....good job Denny!

Also he started to like spending some time with books. He use not have interest in any books,maybe just pictures,and would not listen if I tried to read it to him, or explain what in the picture, but now he can sit and listen/comment what I have to read or say about book. Big progress!!!! Also he taught him self to count to 5 in English ! He loves to draw, pain and just be a kid!

My older son Danik, is getting so big, and I can't believe that he is almost 9 year old (in 10 day).

He is doing good in school, sometimes we have behavior problems but it's normal, and he is a boy, which explains a lot :))) My boys are very active, and likes to get into trouble.

I am so proud of Danik, he is trying to help me a lot, and love his brother and sister. He says a lot of thank you mom, and dad for adopting me, for taking care of me, and etc. Very sweet and loving boy. His English reading improved a lot and I am proud of him. Its harder for him to learn English because at the same time I am trying to help him and work on his Ukrainian. So he is trying to keep up with two languages at the same time. We are very proud of him, Danik is very smart boy and we are thankful to God for letting us be his parents!!!

I will try to write more later, not have to go.....

Praise God!

2011-02-04T17:56:00.000-08:00

Sibling group that we were praying about did get their forever family! Very happy for them!

Every person deserves a second chance and be happy, especially innocent kids. Not always family and a kid can attach for a different reasons, but everyone deserve to be happy and not feel miserable. I feel really bad for families, who did go through adoption and something didn't work out for them. When family making a choice to adopt they are doing this with all good intention. Please pray for a family who lost their kids, I know this family did everything they knew, and they tried everything to make it work, but for some reason.... Only God know why!

It's not going to happen

2011-01-24T19:06:00.000-08:00

Our adoption is not going to happen, we are not brining home two more kids, do to circumstances.

For us it would be a out-of-state adoption(Atlanta, GA), and we will need to find almost $20 thousand to complete this adoption, but there is no way we will have this money. If this is our kids, we believe God will provide but for now we did what we could.

We are still praying for forever family for this sibling group. Please pray, they need their family, this kids need new mommy and daddy!

No news yet...

2011-01-22T10:46:00.000-08:00

The agency that taking care of this two kids, are really hard to work with. Kids are going trough disruption and current family and kids are straggling, but no one cares, sad...

Agency require some special home study, and they are concerning about placing this kids with us for few reasons:

1.Our financial situation(we will have to loan a money again, to bring this kids home), not a problem for us because God will provide, and with a time we will pay it off.

2.Us, having a small children in the house

3. and main is, this agency never placed kids in California homes, they are not sure what they are doing.

We are praying that kids find their family soon! Please pray for this kids so God will send a family their way (or we have ok to adopt them if they are our kids)

Thank you

More pictures... snow day for boys

2011-01-19T20:40:00.000-08:00

Daddy took boys to the snow! They had so much fun.

Pictures...

2011-01-18T14:28:00.001-08:00

Baby girl walking and she is only 9 month old, First Christmas
Daddy decorating ginger house with kids
Boys decorating their cookies, they had so much fun.
By Christmas tree at the mall
our little princess

Happy New Year!!!

2011-01-03T19:22:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to all of you! May God Bless you and your families in this 2011 year.

Our Christmas and New Year were not that fun. We all were sick(except Daniel J), and didn't even attend a church as a family. We stayed home most of the days. We did have a company over on Christmas, but I think this is it.

Because of the holidays there is nothing on kids yet. We are praying a lot and hoping that kids will have their family soon. Also we just found out about on more child who needs a family, and we are praying about these 3 kids.

Tomorrow Daniel J is going back to school, and we all will miss him in the mornings, I love having him home in the mornings.

Also we have a birthday coming up for Daniel D. He will turn 3 in one week, he is getting so big and smart. Will try post some pictures later. :)))

Next step...Please pray

2010-12-17T16:41:00.000-08:00

Almost for a month now we been praying a lot, and trying to find out what Our God want us to do. What is God's plan for our family. It's been hard, and we still not sure what we will do.

We found out that there is 2 children who needs a home as soon as possible, and our hearts are open to help. We know that if it's already in our heart, God places them in our heart, then it's for a reason.

We been praying a lot and we do want to help this kids, but in our eyes it is not possible. We still trying to payoff our 1st adoption, and financially not ready to jump in another. God know how to provide if this is our kids. For now we are praying for this kids and with all our faith we are doing what needs to be done to start this process.

Please pray for our family, for our finances and also please pray about this kids, if we are not their forever family, that God will send them their family as soon as possible.

Thank you and God Bless you

I will keep you all post it about our process/kids

Time to blog

2010-12-02T10:57:00.000-08:00

I am a really bad blogger, I can't make myself to blog at least 1 time a week, and again I will say that I will try to change and will work hard to start blogging more often.

Our family is doing good.

Sergey is working, and trying to spend as much time as he can with kids and me.

Boys are growing too fast.

DJ is in school, his disciplines improved a lot, and he is trying so hard to be a good boy home and at school. We still have our ups and downs, but lately everything was great.

Some things about our DJ I dont' want to share to the public, nothing bad, some health issues.

DJ is trying to help me in anyway he can. He is watching his daddy, and put sticky notes on cup a tea, make me a tea, and yesterday he just close door to his room, and vacuumed, cleaned , was trying to surprise me, such a nice, sweet little guy. We love you so much and very happy that you are in our family! Thankful to God for choosing us to be your parents.

DD is just a little 3 year old(almost). Most of the days he is happy, and a good child. "Terrible twos" is behind. He loves his brother and little sister. He is very funny, and loves his cartoons, and can watch same cartoon 20 times in a row. :))))

Our baby girl, Elliana, is getting big. She loves to follow her brothers, and I think soon she will be walking.

And me, I love GOd, I love my family.

The other day my husband asked me "what is happiness for you"? and he got me thinking. With out thinking I did reply,"It's God, who brought us together, you(my husband), and our family"! If my family is happy I will be happy.

And yes, I love to see my kids playing together, or playing with daddy, or just trying to be nice, and gentle with me. I love to watch them to grow, learn something new. I even enjoy when they get into trouble, don't get me wrong, I am not happy when my kids are in trouble, but if they are I know, and hope they will learn from their mistakes, and it's a new opportunity for me to teach them to be a better person. I love my family and I am happy.

Also lately I been thinking a lot, how can I serve God more, how our family can serve God, how do I teach my kids to serve God???!?!?! "HOW" is on my mind a lot lately. I think I will blog about it in a different blog, and will share my thoughts.

2010-09-28T15:41:00.000-07:00

I would say i am not a blogger..........I honestly try to blog more often, but it just not happening. I was even thinking to write my last post here, and not worry about blogging but for now I will keep it.......

So here we go, updates of our family of 5 and +1(my brother)

Daniel J, is in school , and doing good. He had some behavior problems(not following rules), at school but now looks like everything getting better. He is still really sweet, loving and caring boy. We do have our ups and downs, but so far I can honestly say that we expected a lot more problems/attachment issues before we did adoption.
DJ is trying to change, and trying to do what needs to be done, there is still a lot little things that needs to be corrected in his behavior, action, and just the way he is, but nothing major. He loves his brother, and little sister. He loves helping me, and his daddy, he doesn't really like homework, but he loves school. He is smart, funny, bright. , He been home only 9 month, and already changed so much, he is different child now, my child, my little boy. Love you Daniel J, and happy that you are in my family. May GOd always be with you.

Daniel Dave is growing too fast. Last 3 weeks we been working on potty training, and for today we have a little boy who is wearing his underwear, and diaper only at night times. And a good thing is that his night diaper 90% is dry in the morning, so we been using one diaper for a week now! Goof job little DD, we are so proud of you.
DD going trough a terrible 2th, now, and it's hard. Sometimes his is sweet loving boy, helping his mama and brother, and next thing you know he doesn't want to do nothing, he is not following instructions, gets' in trouble, and wining. We love you DD, and we are really hoping that this stage will end soon.

Baby Elliana , is my little princess! Everyone loves her, and she is just so cute.
She is teething now, and we have bad days, but still she is my bundle of joy, my little girl. She is big, almost 6 month already.

We are doing great, and very happy. We do have our moments, bad moments as a family, but we are learning to change our selfs, to get smarter to seek God more. I am trying to read bible, kids bible, to our kids every night, and pray with them. And I think it will help a lot our relationship as a family, and our family will get stronger in GOd.

****will try to post some pictures later

School starts........

2010-08-16T14:21:00.000-07:00

Thursday, August 12 Daniel started school, as a third grader. He is kind of happy to go back to school, where all his friends are, but we miss each other a lot. Denny miss his big brother, and I miss Daniel. I think over the summer, spending everyday together we attached even more. We are so happy to have him in our family.
We just came back from Portland, were visiting my parents. I will blog later about our trip, and will post some pictures of my babies.

We are still straggling with "putting things back where they belong" and how to take care of stuff that belongs to you(especially clothes). Did anyone had this problem? How did you deal with it? I am thinking it's every kid thing,

Ocean time....

2010-07-12T13:11:00.000-07:00

My parents from Oregon came to visit us, and went San Francisco and we had a really good times. Here is some pictures from ocean, and pier 39

at the ocean, with my parents and my brother and sister (baby is in a sling)

Pier 39

on our way to San Francisco

What we did this summer...

2010-07-12T12:18:00.000-07:00

Here is few pictures from this summer

here is my 3 beautiful children (it's not the best picture of our baby)

I love this picture, boys felt to sleep(both taking a little nap)

our baby girl 2,5 month old

Our princess and daddy

Water ball fight, boys and daddy (we had already few water ball fights this summer, it's a picture from one of them)

At the park daddy playing with his Daniels

I will try to post more pictures later

Something I want to share...

2010-07-07T14:49:00.000-07:00

In December 2009, when we were adopting DJ, we met one girl. We felt that she belongs in our family, we called her our daughter, she did call us her mommy and daddy, her family. At that time we didn't know when she will be available for international adoption(we only knew that she will be available later this year), so after we came home to US we talked to our facilitator, and we been told to write a request letter to SDA about this girl. Few month later we did, and were waiting for a result from SDA.
We were in contact with this little girl, we did call her, and a month ago we send her first package(some toys, clothes, and etc.) June 17 was her birthday, we called to say Happy B-Day, she was happy and we did talked with her that we will come this year to bring her home. We started to do some paperwork, and our home study visit was schedule for this Saturday but..... On July 1st I called her caregiver to see if they got a package/her b-day present, and been told that our little girl been taken out of orphanage to a "home foster system".......... No words, just a lot of sadness and tears on our end. We are heart broken, it feels like part of my heart was taken....
She never got her B-day present. There is more details to whole this story by I can say only that money were involved.
We missed our little girl, and praying that she will have a good happy life. What ever happens it does happen for reason. Only God knows why we met her, and why we are going through this now.

I shouldn't take her so close to my heart, I did accept her as my daughter, and felt in love. I was always thinking how and when we will bring here home, where she will sleep, and how will she like us, as her new family and etc.....

Just wanted to share, and maybe feel better about loosing our little girl(I am not sure if it's possible to feel better about this situation)

*still can's stop crying Please pray for me and our family, and especially about this little girl, so she will have good mommy and daddy(in foster home)

6 month home....

2010-07-02T10:49:00.000-07:00

It’s been a really long time from my last post. I don’t’ even know where to start, we have so much new. Daniel James is done with school, but we still doing a little homework every day, just to keep up his English and remember how to write and read in Ukrainian. He has been a really good boy. And I think like with every kid we have our ups and downs, but no big problems with attitude or behavior. He been home 6 month and I can’t believe it how much he had changed. Sometimes we still have a little change attitude/behavior when other people/relatives around, but he is doing much better from when he just came home. He has good grades and already start picking up some English, it’s harder for him with English, because home we speak only Russian but he is doing great.

Daniel Dave is doing great, like a 2,5 year old boy. He loves his older brother, and following him everywhere.
Baby Elliana is just beautiful princess everyone loves her. She is getting really big, she is already almost 3 month old. Time is flying!
Here are some pictures from last 6 month with DJ!

San Francisco Zoo, my handsome little man

San Francisco Bay Aquarium

Jungle Restaurant San Francisco, Ca

Aquarium, San Francisco

Meet our new addition!

2010-04-17T12:28:00.000-07:00

On April 6, we had our baby girl.
Meet Elliana Rose Mironyuk:

Here she is 1 day old!

We are getting ready to go home:

Going home!

Boys are really excited to have a little sister. Daniel J, is a really big help, and he loves his little sister. Daniel D, is trying to help too. We are surprised that there is no jealousy going on. When baby start crying he runs to me, and telling me to pick up a baby and feed her. Also Daniel D gets mad if I don't do it (sometimes baby is not hungry, just needs to be change, or just making sounds).

Happy Birthday Daniel James!!!

2010-02-26T20:19:00.000-08:00

Today is Daniel's J birthday, and also exactly two month as we came home with him.
Wow, it's been already 2 month, and he is doing so good. He changed a lot. We didn't have any big or a lot of problems with him, but even in little areas it's been a lot of changes in him. I do have few questions for adoptive parents, who had adopt older kids , but I will probably talk/ask later, not today.

2,5 month ago in the orphanage

Taking a walk outside

In his classroom

Today

home, ready to blow his candle, and go to sleep(we came too late back from Chuck E Cheese)

At Chuck E Cheese posing

At relatives house

It was a nice day, and I think DJ like it a lot. He been waiting for his birthday for sooo long. He been asking , and talking almost everyday about HIS birthday.
He still did go to school today, and after he came home, he opened his presents, grandma came to say Happy Birthday to him, and after that we went to Chuck E Cheese.
He was going "crazy" about everything. He was keep telling us "thank you" all evening.

Again, Happy Birthday DJ!!! We love you and happy you are part of our family, you are our son!!!

Been a while...

2010-02-16T11:50:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since I blogged a last time. We are very busy, trying to prepare everything for a new baby, and also I started having some complications with my pregnancy, and been on bed rest for few weeks now.

Daniel J is doing great. We still have no problems with him. He tried to test us, but everything is under control now.

Here is new picture of our family!

I will try to post more pictures of our kids later.

Nothing much....

2010-01-20T14:27:00.000-08:00

Sergey appointment, for his arm, went well. He is taking his antibiotics now, and some vitamin C, and it's already better. The first day, Friday, antibiotics made him sick, but after that one day,he was fine. Sergey forgot to ask his doctor, name of those things that he has on his arm, but it's not that important now. I am happy that medicine is helping him.

Daniel J is doing good in school.I am so proud of him, he is trying so hard. He has a lot of energy and cannot sit in one place for long time. He is trying to communicate with other kids in school with his hands, and it's not ok at school, a lot of kids take it personal and he was getting in trouble. We are trying to explain as best as we can , what is ok, and what is not. It's so hard for him in school with out language, but I know he will pick up a language very quck because he is a smart boy.

Pictures

2010-01-14T10:31:00.000-08:00

Here is some pictures from Daniel D B-day:

Daniel D blowing candle on his cake

Daniel J going down the slide in the mall play area

My two boys

Doing good

2010-01-14T06:12:00.000-08:00

We are all doing really good, just busy. I am trying to catch up on my sleep, and clean little things around the house. Also getting use to having elementary school student in my house, doing homework with him, helping him with his English.

Daniel J is doing really good in school, he is learning a lot. His favorite is math.
We are so thankful to our God, that he gave us this little boy. Daniel trying so hard to be a good boy, and follow everything we tell him to do. He would change his attitude when there is someone else around, grandma, or uncle, or aunt. If someone else is around he would start acting weird, questions everything we tell him to do, or if we ask him to do something, like "please go change your clothes", he would say "no", or "why", or "I don't want to". And this is would happened when some else is around. We had a little talk, and yesterday he did fine when my brother came over. We think he was just testing us, and I am glad it's over :) So now, we will trying to go to church. He doesn't like a lot of attentions and really shy when people trying to talk to him, but I think he is ready. I am so proud of him, he is trying so hard, and he has so many changes in his life in past 3 weeks, and he is doing great. My little son, happy to have you in our family.

Daniel D had his birthday last Sunday. It was only us, family celebrating. Because Daniel J is really shy we trying not to go out to other houses a lot, and not invite to many people to our house. We had aunt, uncle and grandma invited for birthday, and this is it. It was great. After we ate we went to mall, to play area, so boys can play and burn some energy. Also I am so proud of my 2 year old, he is finally off bottle, and pacifier.

Sergey is doing good. Very busy working everyday and trying to take care of other things. Today he has an appointment for his arm (still recovering after Ukrainian trip). I don't' even know how to name stuff that he is getting on his arm. But he gets one after another, and they grow bigger until they pop, and he has to put some special cream on it to speed up a proccess of popping. Maybe doctor will tell us the exact name for this little things today.

My student

2010-01-08T10:00:00.000-08:00

January 4, Sergey was off work, and we went to sign up Daniel J for school. He been talking about going to school since we came home, and was counting days when he will go to school. I think he was missing other kids.

His school is really nice, and staff is wonderful. All morning Daniel J was not too happy, he was still nice, and good boy, just not too happy. And after we told him that he will start school tomorrow we got to the car he start crying. After a little talk with him he told us that he will miss me when he will be in school, and he is scared that we will leave him in school and never come back for him. I felt so bad, and we had a long talk about how much we love him, and that we will always come back for him.

January 5, was first day of school for Daniel J and me. It was so hard for me to take him to school and leave him there. I was standing there and watching him around other kids as long as I could. I was trying to be strong for him so when I got to the car only then I started crying. I felt so bad leaving him there along, and not be able to be there with him and for him. All day long I was watching time, and thinking to go and see how he is. But I made it to the end of the day, and then went to pick him up from school.
He liked his school, class and everything a lot. I am so happy for him, and I am not too worry now about taking him, and leaving him at school.

Having fun

2010-01-05T13:06:00.000-08:00

Daniel J got a lot of presents but this one was one of his favorite. Thank you aunt Inna and uncle Ivan.

Trying his new bike

My little cute boys!!!

Please help

2010-01-04T21:49:00.000-08:00

I am still trying to figure out how to post pictures. How can I post a picture, so you can see a small picture, and when someone click on the picture they can see "same,one bigger picture"? Ok, Thank you so much Marcie, now I know how to post pictures with out uploading them to internet first.

My 2 Daniels :))))

Meet Daniel James!!!

2010-01-02T20:47:00.001-08:00

On our way back home! Our happy 7 year old handsome son!

Happy New Year to everyone!!!

2009-12-31T13:33:00.000-08:00

I just want to say Happy New Year!!! Thank you everyone for your nice comments, prayers and just being there for us! God Bless you all!!!

We are very busy this days. I had 2 appointments already for my pregnancy, and yesterday we found our that we are having a GIRL!!! We are so happy! Also I had a regular appointment with my doctor, and he said that everything is ok with a baby. I was worry a lot, we had a lot of stress and some things during our adoption that I was worried that it will harm a baby, but everything looks good.

Daniel James is doing good home. He is such a loving little guy. We are not use to someone giving us kisses all the time, and saying thank you for every little thing. He kisses my belly and saying that he is already love his sister. So cute and sweet, make me cry. Always smiling and helping me with little Daniel. The sweetest thing to watch him and Daniel Dave playing together and dancing! Will post video later.... promise!

Little Daniel still has diarrhea, I have no idea what is going on, it started in Ukraine, a week before we were going home. Mabey he is teething, or something else is going on. If he continius the same way, we will go to see a doctor after New Year.

Sergey is happy and busy. His family is back home, but he got much more things to do now. My poor husband I feel so sorry for him.

I am just happy to be home!

We are home!

2009-12-27T17:53:00.000-08:00

Finally we are home. It was a little difficult to travel, especially a 9 hour flight with two kids, and being 6 month pregnant was hard.

Boys are doing good. Today, December 27 was our Christmas day :) We opened all the presents, and had a lot of fun as a family. Our new son is doing great. We love having him in our family. So far so good, we didn't have any attitude problems or anything like that. I know, I owed you pictures and I will try to do it as soon as we settle a little bit more.

Thank for your prayers!

We are in Kiev......

2009-12-24T06:39:00.000-08:00

Finally after 3 crazy days we are all ready to go to USA.
Monday: Was a lot of running around finishing things in Amvrosievka, getting our paperwork from court, and leaving to Konstantinovka in the evening to be able to get Daniel J new birth certificate on Tuesday morning in Kramatorsk(only 30 minutes from Konstantinovka). If we would drive from Amvrosievka in the morning we would have to leave around 5 am to be able to get to Kramatorsk by 8:00-8:30 am. My sister stayed with Daniel D in Amvrosievka.

Tuesday: Me and Lev(we stayed at his parents house which was nice) woke up at 7am and were ready to go by 7:30 am. We got taxi and were in Kramatorsk office around 8:30am.
First we been told that there is no way we can get Daniels J passport with out Sergey being there. Its was so stressfull... but God is with us and finally lady said that she can do it. First she even gave us all the paperwork back, and we thought that we are not going to make it to our train to Kiev that evening.

After we got birth certificate we had to drive to Donetsk to get Daniels J passport. We decided to get passport first, before we get our son from orphanage because it was on our way. We got to Donetsk around 12:00 pm, but after an hour being in Donetsk and doing legalization and notary, and waiting for our son's passport we new that there was no way we can make it to our train that night if we wait any longer for his passport. So at 1:30pm me and our taxi left Donetsk to drive to Amvrosievk and Lev stayed in Donetsk to finish and get Daniels J Passport. It was 2 hour drive back to Amvrosievka and we had only 10-20 minutes to get Daniel J from orphanage, and my cousin and Daniel from our apartment. Thankfully orphanage staff was very nice and supportive, and everything was ready for me , and I just took Daniel J and left. We didn't have any time to change Daniels clothes, we changed him in the train.
After that we stopped at our appartment to get my cousin and Daniel D, everything was packed and ready to go. At 4:00pm we left Amvrosievka, and it was 2 hour drive to Donetsk, and we had our train at 6:08 pm. We were praying to make it to our train. Like always, when you are in hurry there is something that will be on your way, so on our way was a lot of cars, and big traffic. We got to train station around 6:05 pm, how we got to the train I will try to explain next time...........long story but we made it.

If everything good I will be home with our kids on Saturday 26!

Where to start.............?

2009-12-20T00:50:00.000-08:00

Now, when I have only 5 days left and we will go home, finally I have good access to internet, Funny....but I couldn't do nothing about it.

And now, there is so much to tell and share that I don't even know where to start. We are thankful to our God for being with us through this whole process, it's not over yet but we are almost done here in Amvrosievka. Our 10th day was on Friday 18, but on Saturday we were not able to get our paperwork from court even that they were open because..............when we came and almost at the same time another family came from Italy to adopt a 10 year old boy. The day we came and met our son, it was 1st day for them, of their waiting period. On 8th or 9th day of their 10 days waiting period, a little boy's mom showed up, and started demanding to get her son back. She didn't come to see here son for more than 3 years, not even one visit, and now she is buying him stuff(cellphone, cloth, toys, food), and telling this little boy that all this time she was looking for him. It's crazy! This Italian family is still here, and they are waiting for another court to see what will happen. And because of this situation local judge is not very happy to give all the paperwork to us, they want to wait another day, just in case something like this will happen. We are praying that everything will go smooth.

Tomorrow, Monday we should get our paperwork from court and me and our translator/helper Lev will drive to Kramatorsk(our son was born there) to get his birth certificate early Tuesday morning. My cousin(she ca

me to help me after my husband left back home) will stay with little

Daniel at our apartment in Amvrosievka. After that, me and Lev will drive to Donetsk to get a new passport for our son, and then we will come back to Amvrosievka to get our son from orphanage..........finally! With our son, we will stop at our apartment and get our second son, and all the luggage, and drive back to Donetsk to catch our train at 6 PM. Tuesday will be really busy day for us! Please pray for last part of our adoption, that we make it to our train, and that everything goes smooth.

The weather been horrible the last 3-4 days. Big storm, and all roads are blocked. For 2 days we were not able to get our from our apartment, a lot of snow and strong wind. This is one more thing that we are praying about, that all roads will be clear for us to drive to Kramatorsk and Donetsk.

Sorry for not blogging, and huge thank you for all your prayers we feel them!!! God Bless you!!!

I know that this is a lot of

Update...

2009-12-09T03:05:00.000-08:00

Hello , this is Sergey.
Here is update. Our Court went fine, we got approved, so now 10 days waiting period will begin. On December 19 my lovely wife will take boy from orphanage FOREVER.
I am right now in Kiev, taking care of some documents at USA Embassy. I am leaving Ukraine tomorrow morning, and my wife will stay to finish all process. God Help Her. It was very exiting and interesting experience especially at Amvrosievka village that i will remember forever. I will wait for my honey with two boys at USA. Thanks for praying and following.

We have internet on our cellphone!!!

2009-12-06T12:40:00.000-08:00

We have access to internet through our cellphone. We are so happy about that! We can tell you more detail updates about our adoption. Our new son is 7 year old, very smart and good boy! His name is Daniel. I have to go...more coming. Tatyana

Still Here in Amborsivka

2009-12-02T04:19:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone this is Sergey, i have much more opportunity to go to down town in this city for Internet then my wife. Therefore I am writing updates on my wife's request. Well so far good news, we are going to have Court date on December 8 at 10 am, and then 10 days of waiting period will approach, and after that on December 19 we will be able to get our son from orphanage. Can't wait. I ( Sergey ) will go home at December 10 due to work, but Tatyana will have to stay here. Unfortunately it is only choice, but i will prepare everything at home for them to come. The weather here is getting better, but still cold. Today we went to mall to buy some close for Daniel. That was very interesting experience.
Thanks everyone for following and praying for us, sorry for not updating very often.

We are fine

2009-11-27T05:28:00.000-08:00

Hello this is Sergey, we are fine. Right now we in small town Ambrosevka and here is only one place with Internet. We mat our son, very happy, processing documents but they are taking a while,we hope that everything will be ok. Thanks for praying we will try keep you update, but with out Internet it is hard.

Back in Kiev!

2009-11-22T10:37:00.000-08:00

Today, Sergey's father drove us back to Kiev. We are still staying with Sergey's cousin.

Sergey talked to our facilitator today, and looks like we will try to get our referral tomorrow, and will be leaving by train to Donetsk. We already have our tickets to Donetsk, and our facilitator is sure that we will have our referral tomorrow. We are really hoping for it.

Little update about last week.

We did visit few Sergey's relatives, had a lot of walks in Lutsk, and had a lot of fun. We still can't wait to meet our boy, but we know that there is time for everything. And now, after spending this week with Sergey's father, we think there was a big reason for us to be here, and spend time in Lutsk.

Also we did go to Kivertsy to see my uncle and his family. Kivertsy, small town where I use to live for 9 years before we came to America, and it's only 20 minutes from Lutsk. It was really nice to see my relatives.

We will have internet tomorrow and I promise we will post pictures and blog some more.

Still in Lutsk

2009-11-19T03:08:00.000-08:00

Hello, this is Sergey (Tatyana's husband) we are still in Lutsk, and planing to go back to Kiev on Sunday. Everything good. We don't have much access to Internet here but as soon as we will get to Kiev, Tatyana probably will give you a lot of interesting details about our trip. Daniel is little better, Tatyana is still sick and me (Sergey) sick also, but we hope we will get better soon.
On Monday we will get our documents and probably same day on Monday night will travel to Doneck to see our baby. we are exited.
Thanks for everything.
Sergey

in Lutsk....

2009-11-15T09:29:00.000-08:00

I wasn't bloggng for a while because we are in Lutsk, visiting Sergey's father and we don't have any internet access. We will be in Lutsk till quarantine is over, until Thursday.

We are good. Daniel is still kind of sick. He is sleeping much better, thanks to Sergey. I will blog as soon as we have internet access. Thank you so much for your prayers.