Two More Weeks

Well, its been a while since we last posted, mostly due to the fact there was nothing to report. The updated Dossier was sent to Vlad at the end of June. I talked with him and he said everything looks good, so we have just been counting down the days to our September 7th submission date. The submission date to the appointment date in Ukraine has been around 3 weeks, so hopefully we will be heading over to Ukraine at the end of September.

We have been really busy at home getting the house ready and the rooms ready for the kids! My rather long and daunting list has been whittled down to a few things with the help of my brother-in-law (Thanks Jason!) and some hired help (Thanks Tony!) and of course Andrew and myself.

I finally finished my scrapbook of pictures to take with us to show everyone in Ukraine where we come from and to get the kids familiarized with faces and the house and of course Chas and Jake (our cocker spaniels). We were able to borrow a few things from my friend Joni who adopted in 2006 from Ukraine (Thanks Joni!). They should come in handy.

One bag has been packed for the orphanage, its at the limit 49.4lbs. I've been getting everything else together that's sort of miscellaneous--kids medicines, vitamins, rubber gloves, duct tape, toilet seat wipes, anti-bacterial handsoap and gel, peanut butter, cell phone, sewing kit, plug adapters. Some of these things you never know if you need, but its better to have them than wish you had them. Some things are hard to find in Ukraine.

Once September 7th rolls around, I should have more interesting news to report!

~Heather