So, the flights are booked and that's all we can do for now. We leave on June 29th, and have a tentative return flight booked on August 20th (that might change depending on how things evolve). The entire process of adoption takes place in Ukraine. So, when we get there, we have an appointment scheduled on July 3rd where we look thru available portfolios on whatever information they have about the children (which usually isn't much). Then we pick and go from there. The child will not be younger than 14 months, and up to about age 2 OR we also specified that we would accept two siblings under the age of 4. The child can be located in an orphanage anywhere in Ukraine, so although our start is in Kiev, we don't know where we'll end up. Once we have made the selection, the child is examined by doctors and the paper work starts. At first we get visitation rights, then as things progress the child can live with us, but can't leave the country quite yet. The entire process takes about 6 weeks.
So, we don't know whether we'll be getting a boy or girl, 1 or 2 children, exactly what age, or even where we'll be staying while there...all very exciting. To help us out in the adventure, we have wonderful friends joining us in this journey for 3 weeks of our stay in Ukraine - how fantastic to have friends like that!!! Thanks Carla, Tyler, and baby Natalie!!!
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Woo-hoo! How exciting! We got submitted today, so hopefully we are close behind you. :)
Congratulations! Our appointment is shortly after yours! Best wishes!
Staci and Damon
Our SDA appt is on June 24. Maybe we could meet up sometime. Just a thought.
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