Happy Birthday son! Mom and I are so proud. Have fun at the movies with you brothers and friends tonight!
Today we got word that our Court Date will be the 27th of December. This is a huge relief as it means our 10 day mandatory wait will run concurrently with the holiday closure for Gov't services here. Whew! Anyway, the next hurdle will be Birth Certificates and UA Passport for our Daughter. After that will be a medical exam and getting the visa from the US Consulate. We are now moving from being exhausted to being bored as we wait, wait, wait, oh yea did I mention wait.
Anyhow, connectivity in region is awful and I'm working on a wireless solution. Hopefully this will be done by Wednesday. I have a better post on the flash drive....but alas the Internet Cafe' will not allow me to hook it up to the system.
Our best to everyone,
Donna and Michael
Today was a milestone! Konstantine was able to get the last signature from the Regional Inspector and left for Kiev this morning. He should be arriving there soon and submit our package to the SDA. Konstantine should get the approval back from the SDA on Wednesday and then he will take the train back here so that we can go to court at 11AM on Thursday the 27th. Getting court scheduled before the close of business on the 28th was the biggest hurdle we had to get over......Whew! Of course there is a lot that could happen between now and then (knocking on wood right now).
Today is Jacob's Thirteenth Birthday. We called him at 6:40am his time today and woke him up. He is excited to be thirteen though about all he wanted to tell us this morning was that he was tired and couldn't we just let him go back to sleep. Nothing like having your kids take your love for granted :-)
I think the big plan for him was to go to see Nat'l Treasure II tonight with his brothers and grandparents. On the bright side here in region.....Donna and I are visiting the Orphanage (Detsky Dom) from 9-12 each day. After that it gets pretty dull as we do our daily stuff around the apartment and try not to die of boredom! The good news is we have a computer....the bad news is that we only have one! (Sharon, thanks again for loaning us your movies before you left). Not much else to report. I think the next hurdle after court and the 10 day waiting period will be getting the birth certificate and the UA passport. I suspect some expedite fees will be needed as most of the country seems to take the new year holiday pretty seriously until around the 15th of January or so. We have our fingers crossed that our 10 day wait won't turn into 15 or 20 days. Doncha just love the way they do things here!
All our best,
Donna and Michael
Boys - Be good for Poppy and Grammy over the holiday's. Jesse, only an hour of video games per day buddy...don't abuse grammy's good nature. Tell Poppy to take you to the skating ring or out sledding. Jacob, stay on top of the garbage for Grammy...she shouldn't have to ask. Jeremiah, make sure Beanie gets a can of the "good stuff" every now and then. We love you and can't wait to bring your sister home to meet you.
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Hi Michael and Donna.It's Konstantin.I have to correct you , your Court Date will be the 27h of December at 11.00 , not 26th. :-) and i'll be in region 26th evening.
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