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Long Overdue Update 5 Apr 2012 | 05:50 am
Last night, as I was tucking my two bedroom sharing boys - Jack and Nick - into bed, we somehow got to talking about the approaching Easter holiday. Having missed 13+ years of my son's childhood, I'm ...
Home Sweet Home! 27 Jan 2012 | 10:45 am
Just a quick update to say we are home, sweet home, as of Tuesday afternoon (the 24th). I am way behind in posting, but wanted to let everyone here know all is well and that I have stored up lots of g...
Khortitsia Island 17 Jan 2012 | 10:31 pm
The main touristy, sight-seeing draw in Zaporozhye seems to be Khortitsia Island, on the Dnepr River. The view of the river is beautiful there and there is a museum with Ukrainian history exhibits and...
"Gotcha Day" - Thursday December 12 (and the events surrounding it...) 17 Jan 2012 | 12:49 am
This installment of our adventure began on Tuesday afternoon, when Jack and I took off from Chicago O’Hare. My sister-in-law, Kris, and I were able to coordinate the dates of our trips so we could fly...
Trains, Planes and Automobiles 8 Jan 2012 | 06:24 am
Continuing where I left off with the last post: After we said good-bye to Nick at the orphanage, we made the 30 minute drive back to Melitopol by taxi. The driver dropped Lesya off at the courthouse ...
Nicholas Sergei...officially! New Year, new family, a fresh start... 3 Jan 2012 | 06:43 am
New Year's Day 2012, my phone chimed with a text message from my son in Ukraine, wishing me all the best and signed (in Russian) "with love, Nicholas (our last name)." When I look back to the start o...
The Lost Post/Catching Up 27 Dec 2011 | 08:00 pm
In just 2 more days we will have court, and then early the next morning we fly home. We successfully changed our flights to the 30th, but we leave Kiev at 5:30 a.m.! We are still trying to figure out ...
We have a court date! 23 Dec 2011 | 11:56 pm
CRY!!! I just spent an hour typing up a very long blog post that I somehow just accidentally deleted!!! Cry, again. :( Well, I will have to come back to it later, but I will just quickly update for n...
The rest of the story from Friday (meeting Sergei's other sister) 19 Dec 2011 | 11:54 pm
Sergei has a half sister (same mother) Tetiana (Tanya) who is 33. She lives in a tiny village about 40 km outside of Berdyansk with her 5 children, ages 5 - 17. I only first found out about her at our...
Pictures: the Internat (orphanage) 19 Dec 2011 | 10:23 pm
This is the school building. The children spend most of the day here. They aren't allowed back into their living/bedroom areas (which are kept locked) until after dinner during the week. They are kept...
