Today was a great day! We were greeted by a 7:00am phone call from all of our children and grandma Hughes back home. What a wonderful treat. We miss them so much and can't wait to get home to them. I don't know how Dan can do all his deployments away from the kids for so long.
The first order of business today was to schedule a meeting with the judge here in Berdyansk. At this meeting, we would discuss our case and request the earliest possible appointment for our court date. Meanwhile, in Kyiv, Victor met the bus and retrieved our documents to then give them to Anya. Anya managed to juggle a doctor’s appointment for her baby, Julia, deal with constant phone calls from Berdyansk, submit our documents to the SDA and get us the court application, all by 2:30pm. We love Anya!!
Our next order of business was to meet with Lady #2 to obtain the rest of the documents that were used yesterday for the adoption conclusion paperwork. Needless to say, we were really looking forward to that one! However, she was semi-pleasant and gave us our documents. After a short trip to the market, Julie and I ventured, on our own, to the orphanage, communicating only by a notepad with phrases that we might n
eed written in Russian (Thanks to Pastor Kenny, MaryJo, and most importantly, Larissa). Anyway, we made it and were greeted, as usual by 3 shining, happy faces. The girls were as thrilled to see us as we were them.
Next, we hustled back into the taxi and proceeded to the courthouse where we met up with Larissa and the judge. She was very nice and smiled at us and the children when first coming back to her office. After discussing our paperwork, the judge told us that she would give us a court appointment on the same day that we get our documents back from Kyiv, praise God! She didn’t have to do this. Technically, she could make us wait 7 days after our documents have been submitted. We are praying that our documents in Kyiv will get finished early and we will be able to get them on Friday and possibly get a court appointment either on Friday or Monday to start our 10 days of waiting.
We took the girls for dinner at the pizza spot here and they loved it! They said it was 100X's better than the pizza they get at the orphanage. We will keep praying, and we appreciate all of your prayers.
God Bless,
Dan and Julie
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