5 Nights Left

We have 5 nights in our beds before we leave to go to Ukraine to meet our daughter. Our appointment with the DAP (former SDA) is on Tuesday at 11:00 am. Then, Lord willing, we will go back on Wednesday to receive our referral documents and hop on the train for our 15 hour ride. We will arrive in K's region on Thursday and we are praying we get the blessing of meeting her that day.   She still has not been online since she moved to trade school, so she has no idea that we are coming.  We are very excited and blessed that God chose us for this path. 

We ask for you to pray for:

1) safe travels - on both the planes and train

2) calm hearts (we have never travelled internationally before)

3) favor with the people at DAP

4) K's desire to still join our family

5) favor with the orphanage/trade school director

6) speedy court date

7) favor with the judge

8) joy in being God's hand and feet

9) F to have a calm heart while we are away

10) grandparents adjust well to caring for a toddler, full-time 

11) we may show Christ's Holy Spirit in us throughout our journey

12) continued and unwavering trust in our Lord's plan

Thank you all for your prayers and following our journey. God has been so good to us. We are excited to see what will be next. 

I will also share that J and I had one last "Date Night". It was so special to spend time together. J took my out for ice-cream. Yep, we were living it up, haha! 

Still Packing......

There is another family that is adopting from Ukraine as well. We have been connected through Facebook and their appointment is the day before ours. It is such a blessing to bounce packing ideas off each other. We message each other ideas and deals we have seen on certain items. We have even arranged to meet up while we both are in Kiev.  It's so wonderful to have that support system there....God's timing is perfect, thank you Lord. 

I think we are done with the "stuff" getting. The main thing we are missing is the portable clothesline, clothes dryers are not common in Ukraine, and clothes. So this is what we look like so far.  

Lots of wet wipes!! 

Praying there is still room for clothes!

We have not had contact with K for over a month now. My heart breaks for her. She has no idea that we know a date we will see her and I have no idea how she is  doing. We miss her so much. But God knows all this, He has a plan. I must trust in Him during this time of uncertainty.  We can't wait to squeeze her BIG hugs!!!  Please pray for her, for her precious heart. 

Answered Prayers

Friday we had a spaghetti dinner fundraiser hosted for our adoption. We were praying for $1500... We received $1314!!! And we had LOTS of left over food. Usually that would be a bad thing but not when you use it to bless others. The leftover salads and bread were given to a ministry that serves food and the gospel to whoever comes in and the desserts were given to Habitat for Humanity for a fundraiser dinner they were having the next night. It was such a wonderful evening. 

The next morning we woke up to an email informing us of our SDA appointment date and time!  Praise The Lord!  We are so excited but, like every mom, when I laid my head on my pillow that night....I started "The List!"  

Yesterday we sorted through all of our things that we have gathered these last few months and started to make...yes, that's right...a list!

Today was busy with buying plane tickets, aaaaand checking things off "The List!"

We still haven't been able to reach K. We had a sweet family add minutes to K's phone while they were in Ukraine for thier adoption. However, K's phone is shut off so she doesn't realize that she has minutes on her phone. We praying she tries to power it up soon. 

Thanks for all your prayers, we truly appreciate them!