Our adoption just got updated to Home at Last Posted about over 4 years ago

It has been 6 weeks since we brought Zhenya home and it's great to be a family of 3, finally!  Zhenya started Charter school (11th grade) at the beginning of August and really seems to like it.  He's enjoying his Robotics and Construction class and really loves his History teacher, whom he has for 2 different classes.  His English gets better every day and we rarely use a translation app, unles...

Our adoption just got updated to Home at Last Posted about almost 5 years ago

We are home!  We brought Zhenya home forever, on July 21st.  The journey has been so long, but we are incredibly blessed to have a Son.  Zhenya has been enjoying riding his bike, playing video games and most of all, playing with his dogs.  He has missed them all so very much.  He has about a week and a half left before he starts school.  Z is excited to meet new friends and settle into a routin...

Our adoption just got updated to Travel Planned Posted about about 5 years ago

We finally have our dates for our first travel.  We will be in Ukraine at the beginning of March.  We started to question if this day would ever come and here we are.  Z is so excited, as are we.

Our adoption just got updated to Child Identified Posted about over 5 years ago

We're all finished with our paperwork and are waiting for our travel dates to Ukraine.  We hope to travel in February.  2019 is going to be a BIG year!

Moving quickly, but not fast enough Posted about over 5 years ago

Imagine how difficult it would be to send your 16 year old, out into the world on their own, without any life skills, no family around and no basically no idea how to cope with life on their own. Then imagine trying to parent from over 6000+ miles away and with a huge language barrier. This is what we've had to watch Z go thru these past couple of months. I can see his daily struggles, without ...

Home Study Visits Complete Posted about over 5 years ago

We are really moving quickly, thru this Home Study process.  It's hard to imagine, that we would ever get this done so quickly.  We just refuse to leave Z behind and will do whatever it takes to bring him home.  We spent the entire last weekend (and I do mean entire!), working thru Education and taking tests.  Who knew we would have to go back to school at this point in our lives?  We passed al...