So yesterday I drove all over Pennsylvania to replace the missing documents. Darren had an on-site job in Mechanicsburg, which is near Harrisburg, so at least one of us had to be near the capitol anyway. So I just tagged along, dropped him off at his customer's building and drove an hour to the Homestudy Agency. There the wonderful Sherry, came in on her day off and notarized a new adoption petition and gave me copies of new agency licenses and a duplicate of our addendum which had been lost somewhere between here and the SDA. An hour later I arrived at the state capital to have the 4 documents Apostilled and at just the same time, Darren finished his work at his customer's office. Fortunately, it was less than 20 minutes to go back to pick him up, just enough time to let him eat lunch. Once we were back together, we searched for a Fed-Ex store to mail the precious documents as fast as possible to Ukraine. They are due to arrive on Wednesday morning. Not soon enough for me, but I do not have the money to buy a plane ticket to take them myself.
Now I pray that they will be all that we need to get the approval to get our appointment.
This morning we picked Bekka up from camp and when we got home I had a friend help us with a 3way call. She translated for a while to up date the boys on what was happening here. They have been enjoying their summer, swimming and playing sports. Yarik said he has been helping in the garden at the school. I am glad he will be experienced at gardening, because mine sure needs some help after this crazy summer we have had.
After the translator hung up, we talked to Sergiy for a while. He said hi to each of the kids. We tried to wake Darren from a nap, but he was too exhausted from driving all over Pennsylvania the past few days. Sergiy is doing so well with his English. We talked about times from Christmas hosting. And things he remembered. He told me about a new friend who also likes to skateboard. It was so sweet to talk to him and hear his jokes and stories. He was really in an upbeat mood. He was getting tired and Yarik had already fallen asleep for the night. So we said good-bye and promised to talk again soon.
Both boys are still excited to be part of our family and we, too are excited to have them!
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