*****I have all the notes from days I missed blogging. And now I will try to post them to the blog, for everyone
It was a miracle that
our papers did get sign on June 6 and we did receive our papers the same day.
Also, our judge was on vacation starting Friday. Ukrainian court has a law, if
judge is gone up to 10 days, judge can’t give his hearings to other judge. We
would have to wait for 10 days for our judge to come back, and schedule a
court.
Today is a court day.
We should have our court at 3pm. We are excited and nervous at the same
time. Sergey and I couldn’t sleep well this night; our minds were working, thinking.
Since I will be going
back to US, and I do need to sign few papers at notary office and embassy
before I leave.
We left our house
around 11 am, Our facilitator and his wife came to take us to notary office,
and while waiting for notary to prepare all required paperwork, we went to eat
to “Pirizhkova Hata” again (we had only coffee this time).
At 1:30 pm we caught a
taxi and headed to the orphanage to pick up boys and a person who will
represent orphanage in the court, and by 2 pm were on our way to court.
Court didn’t start on time
and we had to wait. Boys and Elliana were very tired, but during court everyone
did well. By 5 pm we were home, hungry, tired but a bigger family! We are so
blessed to be parents to two wonderful boys! We know that not everything will
be easy, and parenting them will be challenging sometimes, but are great boys
and they are our sons. We love them and so thankful to our got for them!
Sergey feelings about
court: I was stressing about court all day and all night, even at night I woke
up a lot of times. In the morning in my head was going on so many thinking
like: “what if judge will leave for vacation, what if she will reschedule
court, what if she will not accept us and act…” I trust God, but couldn’t
control myself. I couldn’t eat, drink, walk, talk, I couldn’t do anything
normal. At the court I tried to respond clearly and loud but it was scary even
to say something in front for judge, but thanks God she decided to let us to
adopt kids. After that decision I felt some relive, but stress didn’t leave me
that easy, on next day I still could fill some stress and worry. I am thanking
God that everything went good and we are parents to Danik and Stasik.
