We have been officially registered with the SDA for one week now! :) what that means... We submitted our paperwork to the SDA in Ukraine last Thursday and they have been averaging 5-6 weeks from submission till SDA appointment. SO with a week to 10 days notice of appointment date we should be hearing something in around a month and be on a plane Ukraine bound shortly there after!!!! We are getting SOOO excited and life is starting to revolve around what we need to do BEFORE we leave and what is going to happen when we are gone and then the events that are marked 'after we return' ! :)) I feel frantic like I need to be scrambling around like a chicken with her head cut off, but beings I don't do the all organized and ducks in a row thing very well and it's not two days before we leave I ignorantly settle back into innocent bliss!!HA I did actually go shopping yesterday and left BOTH children at mom-n-laws and boy oh boy did I ever shop!! I tried clothes on and went to stores JUST TO LOOK and just had a day of it! It was so refreshing and F.U.N.! I can count on my first 3 fingers the times I have left Pey to go shopping and one kinda forgets what it is like to REALLY shop! :)) I don't think Bill would encourage it as it gets a lot heavier on the bank account :-/ Anyway back to the original thought I did get a lot of things marked off of my shopping list and another bunch of things that I shopped around for and have dwindled down to two choices and just need a final opinion from the man of the house. And really the bulk of the things I need to buy and do here at the house just can't be done until we know age and gender of our child! I'm afraid when we come home for a week in the middle we will be up round the clock trying to get everything crammed in!
Hosting- Life is still going good with Tanya... I think we have worked through most of the kinks and life has settled into a new normal. She's here for 31/2 weeks yet and have already been thinking how quiet it will be when she leaves and how much we are going to miss her! It has definitely not been all roses, but it has been a good experience and we are very glad we did it! When talking to some of the other host families it sounds like we have it pretty easy compared what some of them are going through!! I guess the Lord knows just how much we can handle! :) She still begs to be adopted and lately when I told her we were not approved for a child that old and had our paperwork submitted already for another adoption she has switched over to at least hosting her again in winter! Tell me how would you handle it to have a 13 year old orphan girl with no hope and no future begging you to let her be part of your family??? Talk about pulling at heart strings :-(
Is anyone interested? She could be requested to host again for the winter hosting program, December & January. I know this only applies to a small number of you readers, but she would really love to be in a Holdeman Mennonite family again. She loves the close knit church family part and the 'lifestyle' if you will of our people. If anyone has a little nudge, maybe its for you, contact me ASAP and I will get you in touch with the right people!! :) P143 is already picking children for the winter program and if the current children aren't specified they will give new children a chance, so Tanyas chance at getting hosted again is very time sensitive!!!
Maybe next post will be announcing when we may go 'meet' our next son or daughter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-))))))))
Oh I can just feel the shivers of excitement at the thought of leaving soon to meet your new family member! It's such an amazing experience! And I sure hope someone steps forward for Tanya...
ReplyDeleteWhoa, times moving fast! It probably doesn't feel fast to you though... can't wait till we hear about your new babe.
ReplyDeleteOH, I hope sooooo bad someone asks to host Tanya - you can see how happy she is by the look on her face! My own heart strings have been tugged many times watching you all and Tanya together...