Donbass Palace Donetsk
80 Artyoma Street Donetsk, 83001, Ukraine
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Passport for Sergei
After an exhausing day yesterday, Lancie was in a better mood today. Yesterday, the lady at the tax police office said " How do you communicate with him? Some Americans adopt our children and kill them. Maybe it is because they cannot communicate with them". Our facilitator had to throw a fit in order to get the paperwork from the ...
Bureaucracy!!!
Sometimes during the adoption process in Ukraine it seems everyone in the process hates you and tries everything in their power to stop the adoption. I can say this because this is our second adoption in this country. But, God is greater. It is a sin what they put people through in the adoption process, though. The ten day waiting period is up ...
Court date
Today was our court date. All went well. The judge was serious and to the point. Afterwards she invited everyone that was in the court to her quarters. She removed her judge's robe and medallion and said "now we can celebrate". She had some champagne and chocolate and we had a small celebration. It was nice and different from the last ...
Court Hearing
Arno Writing: The court hearing went well, and after a mandatory 10 day wait we will be able to take Anastasia from the orphanage. The judge was nice and even joked at times. Before we started Luba said it was customary for the man to answer most of the questions. When we got started I was asked to stand and the judge asked me some basic questions and then told me to sit down. For almost the rest of the hour hearing Lancie had to speak. She did well, though. After ...
Christmas
... we gave them "light up" bracelets. Every little thing is so exciting to them. It doesn't take much to entertain them. Lancie gave out chap sticks to the older kids and it was like the greatest thing anyone ever gave them. We called our kids at home and they were having a good Christmas with their grandparents. Tomorrow is our court appointment and after that we take ...



