12/14/07 Patience Patience Patience!!!!!!

As anyone who has done this before can attest, you must be flexible. As you may have guessed, today we are finding out first hand. Our facilitator contacted the Orpahage yesterday and the director told him that the child was there and we could see her as soon as we got pemisson from the Regional Inspectors office. Unfortunately the Regional Inspector is on vacation untill Sunday evening so now we have to kill a few days waiting in Kiev. We are dissaponted but know that this is one of the many things that may happen along the way. All else being equal, I suppose its better to be stuck in Kiev rather than somewhere very small with completely nothing to do. We are hoping we will be able to meet her on Monday.

This afternoon we head back to the SDA to pick up our referral. After that we are going to meet Sharon Nylen for dinner. She and Brian are here adopting two children and they are just finishing up the passports and should be heading for home in time for Chirstmas. It will be nice to chat with someone who has just navigated this crazy adventure we are on. We already spent an hour on the phone with her last night and got some great info from her. Its great to chat with someone here in english who is also a parent and whom we share so much in common with.

Here are a couple of photos of our apartment and one of Donna....Obviously before we found out we would be delayed. We feel pretty good....not thrilled about the delay, but we're okay with our choice and it will be what it will be.