Today, Sergey took all the documents for apostle, and also on his way home, he send everything to Ukraine!!! Now we just have to wait and see, hopefully all documents are correct, and we don't have to redo anything.
Please keep us in your prayers, and also pray for October 13, our submission date! We know that God is with us, and we trust Him.
Thank you everyone for your support, and prayers!!! God Bless you!!!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Plans for this week.
I will start from last weekend. Saturday was really busy for us, especially for Sergey. But Sunday we decided to go to San Francisco, it's one hour and 30 minutes drive. It was nice there. we had a really nice, and relaxed day. we walked a lot, we spend some time by the ocean, on the little blanket. Daniel did want to walk on the sand with out his shoes. First when he saw sand on his feet, he didn't want to walk at all, but later by playing we was showing him that it's ok, to be dirty. He is funny, even home he likes his hands to be clean, and his face, and especially his feet.
Today we will finish notarizing our last few documents, and tomorrow Sergey will take it to apostle and then send it to Ukraine. Hopefully everything will work out great.
And rest of the week Sergey will be working on the new room, and I will just see how can I help.
I worry a lot about everything, every little thing. I am trying to control it, but it's hard:)))
I have dreams about our appointment in Ukraine, and our kids already:)))
Today we will finish notarizing our last few documents, and tomorrow Sergey will take it to apostle and then send it to Ukraine. Hopefully everything will work out great.
And rest of the week Sergey will be working on the new room, and I will just see how can I help.
I worry a lot about everything, every little thing. I am trying to control it, but it's hard:)))
I have dreams about our appointment in Ukraine, and our kids already:)))
Friday, September 25, 2009
Document still here.
Today was a busy day, I was not supposed to work, but I did, because family that I work for is moving to a different apartment, and they asked me if I can watch their 4 year old. I love to watch this little girl, she is so sweet. Her parents did go through all the stuff/toys that they had, and they gave a lot of toys for Daniel! So Christmas for Daniel came early this year!!!
Now about paperwork!
I did went to the Secretary of State to get apostle on all our documents, but I couldn't do all of them. Because our copies of passport, copy of I171H, and copy of our tax return was not notarized. And notary at their office was not available. If I only knew, I would do it somewhere else before coming to their office. Next time we will be smarter. So now, I have to find a notary, and notarize our copies, and then go on Monday to get apostle, and mail everything to Ukraine. We so happy, and nervous, and also really want this to be done as soon as possible.
I want my child/ren be home with us!
Thank you guys for all your comments, and support, and all of your prayers! We feel them! We see Gods hand in our life, and we know that God is with us, and He will not let us down!
God Bless You and your families!!!
Now about paperwork!
I did went to the Secretary of State to get apostle on all our documents, but I couldn't do all of them. Because our copies of passport, copy of I171H, and copy of our tax return was not notarized. And notary at their office was not available. If I only knew, I would do it somewhere else before coming to their office. Next time we will be smarter. So now, I have to find a notary, and notarize our copies, and then go on Monday to get apostle, and mail everything to Ukraine. We so happy, and nervous, and also really want this to be done as soon as possible.
I want my child/ren be home with us!
Thank you guys for all your comments, and support, and all of your prayers! We feel them! We see Gods hand in our life, and we know that God is with us, and He will not let us down!
God Bless You and your families!!!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
I171H in our hands!!!
I was really surprised when I opened our mail box and there was our I171H! It was fast! Tomorrow all documents will get notarize and Friday I am not working and hopefully will go to get all of them apostle! It would be so nice if we can mail everything to Ukraine this week, so we have some extra time, in case there is any mistakes!
Waiting for I171H
Yesterday, I e-mailed USCIS adoption department, and they told me that they are really sorry for delay of our I171H approval, and they said it will be in the mail today! Hopefully we will receive it this week and will be ready to mail all documents on Monday!
We still have make copy of our tax return for 2008, and typed on the bottom"true and ......copy" and notarize, and we will be done!!!
I been working all week, so I wasn't able to go and apostle all our documents. But before I do that I really want to see I171H in the mail, so we can do everything at the same time.
We still have make copy of our tax return for 2008, and typed on the bottom"true and ......copy" and notarize, and we will be done!!!
I been working all week, so I wasn't able to go and apostle all our documents. But before I do that I really want to see I171H in the mail, so we can do everything at the same time.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Amost done with all the paperwork!
We have all the paperwork, except I171, which I am really hope will come this week.
Few days ago Sergey scanned all document, and e-mailed to Our facilitator, and he said everything looks good. So now, we have only 4 more pages to notarize, and if I am not working tomorrow I will take it to get apostle, and will send everything to Ukraine tomorrow.
We are so happy because now we see the end!
House updates:
Sergey working really hard to finish our new room in garage, he worried so much to get it done on time, we really want our kids to have their own rooms. Yesterday Sergey was so happy, and I was really proud of him, on his own, with our any help he did a light switch, and light now working in our new room!!! Very good, hard working husband I have!
I am not a big help now, :))) most of the time I am not feeling good, I think now it's a little better, but still no energy. So, I am trying to do as much as I can to collect all the paperwork.:))
I am already praying for our submission date, I am so nervous, I guess it's also my hormones:)))
I will try to keep you updated, lately I have no time, but I will try!
Thank you for being with us , during this journey!
Few days ago Sergey scanned all document, and e-mailed to Our facilitator, and he said everything looks good. So now, we have only 4 more pages to notarize, and if I am not working tomorrow I will take it to get apostle, and will send everything to Ukraine tomorrow.
We are so happy because now we see the end!
House updates:
Sergey working really hard to finish our new room in garage, he worried so much to get it done on time, we really want our kids to have their own rooms. Yesterday Sergey was so happy, and I was really proud of him, on his own, with our any help he did a light switch, and light now working in our new room!!! Very good, hard working husband I have!
I am not a big help now, :))) most of the time I am not feeling good, I think now it's a little better, but still no energy. So, I am trying to do as much as I can to collect all the paperwork.:))
I am already praying for our submission date, I am so nervous, I guess it's also my hormones:)))
I will try to keep you updated, lately I have no time, but I will try!
Thank you for being with us , during this journey!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Last paperwork
Tomorrow I have an appointment with my doctor and our mobile notary to meet and sigh and notarize my medical form. Hopefully this time it's a correct code, and we don't have to go back to our doctor.
Also my husband having our notary to meet him and a lady who is sighing, my husband's employment letter, and it should be done tomorrow as well.
This is last two pieces of documents that we need.
I am not talking about our I171, we are hoping that it will come in the mail early next week, so actually this is our last paper, but there is not much we can do to get it done faster. I did e-mail that department, but still no news.
So we will see.
Also my husband having our notary to meet him and a lady who is sighing, my husband's employment letter, and it should be done tomorrow as well.
This is last two pieces of documents that we need.
I am not talking about our I171, we are hoping that it will come in the mail early next week, so actually this is our last paper, but there is not much we can do to get it done faster. I did e-mail that department, but still no news.
So we will see.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
My medical Form!
I e-mail my doctor today, like 5 times, and we finally found a correct code. Now I have to ask our facilitator if doctor can just put his initials and put a correct code next to it, or we have to redo all form all over again.
I think we will have to redo all over again, but I still e-mail our facilitator to make sure.
Did any of you guys had to change something little in your documents, and all you did it just white out, or cross it of and write next to it, with initials??? Just a question.........
I think we will have to redo all over again, but I still e-mail our facilitator to make sure.
Did any of you guys had to change something little in your documents, and all you did it just white out, or cross it of and write next to it, with initials??? Just a question.........
Sunday, September 13, 2009
News!!!
Hello everyone! I am so sorry for not blogging for so long, very busy, and not feeling really good.
Updates:
Saturday we had our fingerprints appointment, everything went good, hopefully soon we will see our I171 in the mail.
We have our submission date on October 13!!! We are so happy! No we just have to get all our paperwork in order, and send it to our facilitator.
We scanned and e-mail all our paperwork to our facilitator, before we do apostle and mail it to him, almost everything looks good, except I have to change my medical letter, the code for my general health is not going to work, doctor has to put different code in.
And now I want to share with all of you our one more news. I was planning to tell you guys for long time, but I didn't because I was waiting for my appointment, to know exact due date! :)))
We are pregnant and we are expecting our little blessing to be here 4-15-2010!
We are so thankful to our God! We been praying a lot about our adoption and our children, and we let everything in God hands and He is with us!
Please pray for us, because we really want to bring home our children from Ukraine as soon as possible, because later it will be harder! We know , God is with us!
Updates:
Saturday we had our fingerprints appointment, everything went good, hopefully soon we will see our I171 in the mail.
We have our submission date on October 13!!! We are so happy! No we just have to get all our paperwork in order, and send it to our facilitator.
We scanned and e-mail all our paperwork to our facilitator, before we do apostle and mail it to him, almost everything looks good, except I have to change my medical letter, the code for my general health is not going to work, doctor has to put different code in.
And now I want to share with all of you our one more news. I was planning to tell you guys for long time, but I didn't because I was waiting for my appointment, to know exact due date! :)))
We are pregnant and we are expecting our little blessing to be here 4-15-2010!
We are so thankful to our God! We been praying a lot about our adoption and our children, and we let everything in God hands and He is with us!
Please pray for us, because we really want to bring home our children from Ukraine as soon as possible, because later it will be harder! We know , God is with us!
Friday, September 4, 2009
Fingerprints Appointment!
Yesterday we got an invitation to come and do our fingerprints! Wow, it was fast, I was expecting this notice to come at least in two weeks, but we have it already and next Saturday we have to go to get our fingerprints taken. It's kind of last peace in collecting all documents for dossier. After fingerprints appointment we just have to wait for our I171 to come in the mail. So excited!!!
Also my husband took a request to get his employment letter . Hopefully we will have it soon.
We haven't heard nothing from our facilitator, hopefully he is back in Kiev, and will be able to take our documents to SDA in order to get our submission date.
My husband working hard to finish one more bedroom and a little office, so we have it ready by the time our kids will come home. Please pray for him!
Thank you for all your prayers!!!
Also my husband took a request to get his employment letter . Hopefully we will have it soon.
We haven't heard nothing from our facilitator, hopefully he is back in Kiev, and will be able to take our documents to SDA in order to get our submission date.
My husband working hard to finish one more bedroom and a little office, so we have it ready by the time our kids will come home. Please pray for him!
Thank you for all your prayers!!!
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Waiting...
Home Study and Power of Attorney are in Ukraine. We are excited, now we just have to wait for our facilitator to translate, and take it to SDA. Hope we will have our submission date soon.
Friday, August 28, 2009
My Clearance !
Yesterday, I got my clearance letter in the mail. I was so excited.
Now we need to get 3 more papers: employment letter for Sergey, house description letter, and our I171. And after that hopefully we are all done, and ready to go.
We are so thankful to our God, that we have this opportunity to go through this journey. All the feelings we have for our child, and all the feeling we go through with every step of this journey it's amazing experience! I am ready to see what God has for us in Ukraine, and I am ready to take it!
Did I tell you guys, that I can't wait for the moment to bring our child/ren home?!?! :))))
I think I did:)))
Now we need to get 3 more papers: employment letter for Sergey, house description letter, and our I171. And after that hopefully we are all done, and ready to go.
We are so thankful to our God, that we have this opportunity to go through this journey. All the feelings we have for our child, and all the feeling we go through with every step of this journey it's amazing experience! I am ready to see what God has for us in Ukraine, and I am ready to take it!
Did I tell you guys, that I can't wait for the moment to bring our child/ren home?!?! :))))
I think I did:)))
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
How good is our GOD!!!
Let me tell you how good is our GOD!!!!
Ok, are you ready!!??? Our home study and Power of Attorney are already on their way to Ukraine!!!
Let start in the beginning. Like I said, Yesterday we got our final draft of our Home Study in the e-mail, and also we send one e-mail with our Home study attached to our facilitator in Ukraine. He is on vacation this week, and I wasn't sure if he is checking his e-mail. So this morning I was surprised to see his e-mail, with all the corrections already made to our Home Study draft.
I e-mail our home study agency, and asked them when our home study will be ready since our facilitator already read and made all the corrections, and they said it should be ready today, and they will FedEx overnight so we would get it tomorrow. Wow! Now they are really working :)))
Also I decided to ask them if it's ok for us to come and pick it up so we would have our home study today. My husband drove all the way to Walnut Creek (1hour and 30 minute drive), to pick it up. My husband's supervisor is so nice and understanding, God bless her, she let him go earlier. He was in our home study agency around 2:00pm, it was ready.
We decided, that on his way back he will stop by Secretary of State office to get apostle for our Home Study, and I drove from home to bring Power of Attorney, so we can get apostle the same time and have it ready to send it to Ukraine. We left the office around 4:30pm, and one of the locations, where they do FedEx, is open till 5:00 pm. I decided to give a try, and tried to make it to the post office. I did make it , it was 4:55pm when I open their door.
We are so happy and we are ready for next step!!! Praise the Lord!
I was thinking we should have it done by next Wednesday. And now it should be in Ukraine in 1-4 days!
Thank you for all your prayers!!! God is a good God!!!
Ok, are you ready!!??? Our home study and Power of Attorney are already on their way to Ukraine!!!
Let start in the beginning. Like I said, Yesterday we got our final draft of our Home Study in the e-mail, and also we send one e-mail with our Home study attached to our facilitator in Ukraine. He is on vacation this week, and I wasn't sure if he is checking his e-mail. So this morning I was surprised to see his e-mail, with all the corrections already made to our Home Study draft.
I e-mail our home study agency, and asked them when our home study will be ready since our facilitator already read and made all the corrections, and they said it should be ready today, and they will FedEx overnight so we would get it tomorrow. Wow! Now they are really working :)))
Also I decided to ask them if it's ok for us to come and pick it up so we would have our home study today. My husband drove all the way to Walnut Creek (1hour and 30 minute drive), to pick it up. My husband's supervisor is so nice and understanding, God bless her, she let him go earlier. He was in our home study agency around 2:00pm, it was ready.
We decided, that on his way back he will stop by Secretary of State office to get apostle for our Home Study, and I drove from home to bring Power of Attorney, so we can get apostle the same time and have it ready to send it to Ukraine. We left the office around 4:30pm, and one of the locations, where they do FedEx, is open till 5:00 pm. I decided to give a try, and tried to make it to the post office. I did make it , it was 4:55pm when I open their door.
We are so happy and we are ready for next step!!! Praise the Lord!
I was thinking we should have it done by next Wednesday. And now it should be in Ukraine in 1-4 days!
Thank you for all your prayers!!! God is a good God!!!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Great News!!!
Today we got an e-mail from our home study agency.......and guess what?! Yes, they finally did get a result of my Child Abuse Index clearance! We are so happy!
So now, we have to wait for our facilitator to make all the correction on the final copy of our home study. It's probably fine, but we just want to be sure that it's perfect, so we don't have to make all the corrections after it's already finalized, and notarized. So if everything is perfect, and our facilitator will be able to make all the corrections today (I don't think so, as far as we know he is on vacation this week), but by Monday we hope to have everything done, and have our home study in our hands by next Wednesday.
After we have it, we will take it to apostle and the same day send it to Ukraine.............wow.... I can't believe that this day is getting closer and closer!!!!!!
Thank you so much for everyone prayers!!! God Bless you All, and all your families!!!!
So now, we have to wait for our facilitator to make all the correction on the final copy of our home study. It's probably fine, but we just want to be sure that it's perfect, so we don't have to make all the corrections after it's already finalized, and notarized. So if everything is perfect, and our facilitator will be able to make all the corrections today (I don't think so, as far as we know he is on vacation this week), but by Monday we hope to have everything done, and have our home study in our hands by next Wednesday.
After we have it, we will take it to apostle and the same day send it to Ukraine.............wow.... I can't believe that this day is getting closer and closer!!!!!!
Thank you so much for everyone prayers!!! God Bless you All, and all your families!!!!
Same........no new!
I was not blogging for few days. Nothing new. We been calling to our home study agency and they still have no clearance on me. The lady, that my husband talked to , said, that she been calling and e-mailing them requests and they are no result yet. We are still praying and waiting and we know that God's time is perfect.
This weekend was busy, Saturday my husband was trying to do all the electrical wires for the new bedroom in house. Sunday we went for a 1 hour and a half drive to San Fransisco. 3 of us wend there just to took some pictures, and walked on the beach. It was nice time for 3 of us. I was trying to imaging how different would be and how much more fun we would have if we have our Ukrainian child/ren with us. I am always thinking about our child/ren, I really want them to be home and us start to live as one family.
Thank you for keeping us in your prayers! God Bless you
This weekend was busy, Saturday my husband was trying to do all the electrical wires for the new bedroom in house. Sunday we went for a 1 hour and a half drive to San Fransisco. 3 of us wend there just to took some pictures, and walked on the beach. It was nice time for 3 of us. I was trying to imaging how different would be and how much more fun we would have if we have our Ukrainian child/ren with us. I am always thinking about our child/ren, I really want them to be home and us start to live as one family.
Thank you for keeping us in your prayers! God Bless you
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Medical in our hands!
Yesterday got our medical forms from our doctor. So happy! Our doctor is so nice. He is understanding and so helpful.
My husband still has problems to get his employment verification. Hopefully it will be done soon. He probably will wait until we have a submission date, to go and get most current letter, and when Sergey will go, he will try to talk to a supervisor.
Thursday my husband got his police clearance letter, and his was a correct one. I called Bureau of Criminal identification and information, yesterday, and they said they will send my letter the same day. Also, while I was on the phone with them I notice it that my last name was misspelled, good I notice it .
Letter for our house, is done, should be in our hands in the beginning of next week.
HOME STUDY...............still nothing. I really hope that we will get our home study soon. They said that they can't do nothing, because they still didn't get my clearance. I want to believe them, and be understanding, but its' hard. We started this process with their agency in February,and they still don't have child abuse clearance on me????
Please pray for this part of our journey. ... maybe God is testing us, or our child/ren are not ready for us yet........I don't know.....but it's so hard to wait.....please pray!!!
My husband still has problems to get his employment verification. Hopefully it will be done soon. He probably will wait until we have a submission date, to go and get most current letter, and when Sergey will go, he will try to talk to a supervisor.
Thursday my husband got his police clearance letter, and his was a correct one. I called Bureau of Criminal identification and information, yesterday, and they said they will send my letter the same day. Also, while I was on the phone with them I notice it that my last name was misspelled, good I notice it .
Letter for our house, is done, should be in our hands in the beginning of next week.
HOME STUDY...............still nothing. I really hope that we will get our home study soon. They said that they can't do nothing, because they still didn't get my clearance. I want to believe them, and be understanding, but its' hard. We started this process with their agency in February,and they still don't have child abuse clearance on me????
Please pray for this part of our journey. ... maybe God is testing us, or our child/ren are not ready for us yet........I don't know.....but it's so hard to wait.....please pray!!!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
No news!
Nothing on Home Study yet. My husband will call them today again.
I will go to a doctor's office tomorrow to get our forms. Hopefully doctor can make it, I made an appointment with our notary and she will be there at 12:00pm.
My police clearance letter came yesterday, but I think this is not what we need.
I thought it going to be in a letter format, and this one that we got just a little record, or maybe this is how it should look?! Will scan today and send it to our facilitator in Ukraine, hope this is exactly what we need.
Please keep us in your prayers!
I will go to a doctor's office tomorrow to get our forms. Hopefully doctor can make it, I made an appointment with our notary and she will be there at 12:00pm.
My police clearance letter came yesterday, but I think this is not what we need.
I thought it going to be in a letter format, and this one that we got just a little record, or maybe this is how it should look?! Will scan today and send it to our facilitator in Ukraine, hope this is exactly what we need.
Please keep us in your prayers!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Sergey talked to HS agency again!
Sergey, called Home Study agency again today. He was really serious, and was trying to really figure our what's going on. The lady on the phone(the BIG manager), did apologized a lot and she tried to explain, and was saying that they will finalized when they get my child abuse Clearance, they are still waiting on it.
Sergey tried to get the phone number to the place where my child abuse clearance should come from, and she said that she can't not give it to him, because they are not aloud to share any information.
I really hope that this will get done soon, and we will have our home study in our hands. I still, really want to go and bring our kids home by Christmas. I miss them so much!!!!
Please pray so our clearance will come this week and we have our home study soon!
Thank you so much for reading and following our journey with us! God Bless you!!!
Sergey tried to get the phone number to the place where my child abuse clearance should come from, and she said that she can't not give it to him, because they are not aloud to share any information.
I really hope that this will get done soon, and we will have our home study in our hands. I still, really want to go and bring our kids home by Christmas. I miss them so much!!!!
Please pray so our clearance will come this week and we have our home study soon!
Thank you so much for reading and following our journey with us! God Bless you!!!
Monday, August 17, 2009
Home Study is not in the mail yet...........
Sergey called our agency, and they told him that home study is ready but still there.........
Why did they tell us that did mail it to us already. I don't understand.
So today, Sergey, did talk to service manager, and he did ask her, "Why it's taking so long?" and she told him, that they didn't receive my "child abuse clearance"! I don't even know what to think. To be honest I don't even believe it. They aproved already, we did get our Home Study draft two weeks ago, and they told us that we should have it in our hands in 2-3 days. Then week later they are telling us that it's already in the mail, and now that it's done , but they dont' have a clearance on me so it makes it not to be ready. I don't understand....probably God knows why..........and He has His perfect timing.
Did any of you guys had something like that happend to you? Is it possible. It's just hard to believe that they are know what they are talking about. I will be calling them again tomorrow, or maybe my husband will call them. Please pray for us!
Why did they tell us that did mail it to us already. I don't understand.
So today, Sergey, did talk to service manager, and he did ask her, "Why it's taking so long?" and she told him, that they didn't receive my "child abuse clearance"! I don't even know what to think. To be honest I don't even believe it. They aproved already, we did get our Home Study draft two weeks ago, and they told us that we should have it in our hands in 2-3 days. Then week later they are telling us that it's already in the mail, and now that it's done , but they dont' have a clearance on me so it makes it not to be ready. I don't understand....probably God knows why..........and He has His perfect timing.
Did any of you guys had something like that happend to you? Is it possible. It's just hard to believe that they are know what they are talking about. I will be calling them again tomorrow, or maybe my husband will call them. Please pray for us!
No news yet!
No home study yet. I am starting to think that when our social worker told us that they had mail our home study to us, they never did. We are still waiting, and my husband will call them today to find out what's going on.
I am thinking a lot about this delay, and I know that Gods time is perfect. My sister is getting married this year and she will have an engagement party September 19, I really want to be there for her. And engagement party will be in our house, it will be hard to prepare for party and for our travel, because Ukraine is getting submission days really quickly now. If someone has a submission date this week, they will probably travel in middle of September and for us it's too early. I think the perfect time for us to travel would be October, but again God has a perfect time for us!
Please keep us in your prayers!
I am thinking a lot about this delay, and I know that Gods time is perfect. My sister is getting married this year and she will have an engagement party September 19, I really want to be there for her. And engagement party will be in our house, it will be hard to prepare for party and for our travel, because Ukraine is getting submission days really quickly now. If someone has a submission date this week, they will probably travel in middle of September and for us it's too early. I think the perfect time for us to travel would be October, but again God has a perfect time for us!
Please keep us in your prayers!
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