After two 10-hour grueling days I decided to relax today. I played a tourist for a little bit, went to some places I didn't have a chance to visit last time, did some shopping, etc. And I walked in my flat warm ugly comfortable boots :) I couldn't wear my favorite 3-inch sensible heel boots after yesterday's blisters! Though I walked in them for 3 weeks last time and didn't have any problems, so I'm not sure what's different now :) And this time I left my 5-inch stiletto heel boots home :)
I made a lot of pictures today, but I can't post them because I forgot my USB cable at home! I'm going to stop at one of the photo stores tomorrow and see if they let me borrow a cable for a reasonable price.
Then it was a lunch time. Do you know who I had lunch with? I had lunch with my blogging friend Tami!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe that? We "met" online several months ago at approximately the same stage of the process. We waited together for our dossier to be submitted. Then we waited for the SDA appointment date. Then we waited for the actual appointment. Then both of us ended up going for 2 trips. And finally we've met!!! It was so good to be able to finally connect in person half way around the world! Hopefully we'll be able to meet again before Raisa and I leave for Kiev.
On Monday we'll be calling the Passport Office to find out when to expect the passport to be ready. We also have one more issue to take care of before we can leave Odessa, but I hope it will be resolved soon.
In the meantime Raya and I are concentrating on spending time together, having fun and learning English! She's eager to learn, and she's making a good progress! She'll be speaking English in no time!
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Victoria's cheerleading costume matches Alex's soccer warm-up
At the wedding, July 2007
12/31/2006
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Hi there. Our names are Oleg and Nataliya, we were born in Odessa, Ukraine and immigrated to upstate NY in 1996. We are high school sweethearts and have been married for 21 years. We have 2 wonderful bio kids - 20-year old son Alex and a 6-year old daughter Victoria. We started our international adoption journey in September 2006, and in January 2008 we finally brought home our 10 (now 11)-year daughter Rachel from our hometown Odessa in Ukraine.
About Me
Our e-mail address
- adoptinodessa@ yahoo.com
Our Facilitator in Ukraine
For those of you just starting your adoption journey, here is the contact info for our great facilitator:
Sergey Kazimirskiy: info@adoption.net.ua
Sergey Kazimirskiy: info@adoption.net.ua
Alex
Rachel
Victoria
Alex and Victoria
Victoria's cheerleading costume matches Alex's soccer warm-up
Oleg and Nataliya
At the wedding, July 2007
Russian New Year's Eve party
12/31/2006
Blogroll
- American Girls in Moscow
- Always wanted 4
- One Mother's Day
- Jim and Dana (home July 2007)
- Sean and Tracey (home October 2007)
- Leslie and Robert (home December 2007)
- Theresa and Mark (home December 2007)
- Jennifer and Zack (home December 2007)
- Joy and Ken (home December 2007)
- Mike and Tara (home December 2007)
- Mark and Courtney (home December 2007)
- Kelly and Andrew (home January 2008
- Tami and Meshack (home January 2008)
- Melissa and Steve (home January 2008)
- Kathy and Matt (home February 2008)
- Kelly and Steve (home March 2008)
- Ruslan and Inna (in Ukraine now)
- Christine and John (waiting for submission)
- Chris and Virginia (waiting for appointment date)
- Bill and Stefanie (waiting for submission)
- Ashley and JC (working on dossier)
- Debbie and Garth (starting paperwork)
9 comments:
Congratulations! How lovely! I am so glad to read about everything going well for you.
It must have felt like meeting up with an old friend for both you and Tami with all you both have been through on your adoption road. So wonderful that you both were in the same city at the same time. I get there were warm hugs and tears of joy between you two.
How awesome! I bet that was nice and very comforting to have a nice English conversation with a fellow adoptive parent. :) Hope the lunch was good.
i bet that was a great lunch! glad to hear you were able to relax and enjoy your day.
That is awesome that you and Tami had lunch! Glad things are moving along for you and Raisa.
Ah, the shoe question -- answered! :)
Glad you're having a nice relaxing time while you wait!
Hi everybody.
Its so exited. I think she will able speak English very soon. And she will speak on two languages. Its so cool. But it will be a little bit hard. Its hard for me sometimes.
So I hope you'll home very soon.
Those ten hour days are quite something!! Glad you got to spend some time being "touristy".
Have fun! You'll be home again before you know it!
I meant to email you about this before and only just remembered. We had a problem getting our court decree apostilled as there is apparently a new procedure where the judge needs to sign the stamp at the end of the decree. Our facilitator had to go all the way back to Schniznoe to get the judge to sign it so we could get it apostilled. Our facilitator told us this is a new process and UA has a book with all the judge's signatures so that they can compare the signatures to any court decree. Just wanted to let you know as it caught out us and our facilitator (and the judge who had never heard of this either).
I'm going to post this to Tami's blog as well so she knows.
Good luck!!!
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