4 days home

Boys are finally home :) Our life did change, but we were prepared for more changes and were expecting more  difficult first few days. Probably we are still in our honeymoon days, but also I am wondering if every adoptive family has this honeymoon period after they bring their kids home !? I really hope that we will not have a reality come after honeymoon, I hope we have a reality now. :)


 Danik and Stasik does very good with following instructions, and it's been only 4 day since they are home, but it feels like it been way longer. They already know most of the rules and trying very hard to follow all the rules. They did have few timeouts(sitting on their beds, and thinking what happened). Danik and Stasik do love each other, but lately(few month ago) they started to push each other, and sometimes fight, and this is what happened yesterday,  Stasik did say something bad,  and Danik being a bigger brother pushed him, and told him not to say these word anymore, and here the fight came . I really hope they got their lesson, I did talk with them, and explained a lot, and after that incident there was no more pushing and fighting between these two. :)

Danilka and Denny getting use to share things, and play with Danik and Stasik. Elliana is just a baby, and everyone loves her, no problem here.

I am still thinking about a new blog, and I really want to write, and concentrate more on our family, and things that we go through every day as a family.

I am feeling so blessed to be a mom to these two wonderful little boys. They didn't have a great life, and Sergey and I are up to teach them about God, family, and morals. We are thankful and very blessed with all our kids.

Day 19 Thursday -Court day

 *****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.

Two less orphans in this world!

Praise our Lord! Everything went smooth and we are parents of our two little boys! Two less orphans in this world! Officially family of 7!

Our court lasted about 30 minutes, it did started an our later than scheduled, but everything is great! Today's day was very stressful, and emotional, but we survived!

I have tickets to go back home this Sunday with ElliAna, and Sergey will stay in Ukraine to finish up with the process.

Tomorrow I will go to embassy to sign few papers.