Well, it is now Tuesday here. Today we went and met with the inspector in Poltava, the Deputy Director over the inspectors, and the head of the administration (?) of the city. Svetlana also had to come with us as they have to ask her a couple of questions by herself. Everything went well. 
There has been another family also adopting from here and they are from Italy (Sicily actually) and we have been getting to know them (without an interpreter). But they also had their meeting with the inspector just before us, so we got to see them today. As we all were leaving, and we were heading for our cars, 
we can't believe who we saw walking across the courtyard......Neelya! Svetlana's sister! She was there with her 'grandmother' the mother of the lady caring for her. It was a very emotional time as we same Svetlana and her sister caring for each other and very emotional as the 'grandmother' 
was very happy for Svetlana but also very sad to see her leaving. Many tears.......but good ones. This was certainly a divine appointment!We may actually have our court hearing on Thursday! We are waiting for the documents to be signed in Kiev, which they only do on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So, Sergei went out on a limb and talked with the judge that our papers will be signed tomorrow, so as of now, our court hearing is set for Thursday at 1:30pm. After that there is a 10 day waiting period before we have full custody of Svetlana, and then we will be heading back to Kiev to go to the US Embassy.
We continue to be able to see Svetlana everyday and hopefully, once we have the court hearing, they will make an exception for us and we can take her for the whole day out of the orphanage. We went to church on Sunday and met the girl who works with the younger children around Svetlana's age and found out when they go, so we can make it a point to take her to the group this week. They will also be having the church picnic while we are here and they invited us to go - hopefully with Svetlana. It looks like the timing will be well also, so that we can swing by the EEO camp before we leave.
3 comments:
It has truly been the Lord directing your path. It is amazing how all is falling into place. Thanks for posting so many pictures. If you go to the church picnic, please say hello to Vanessa for me. Praying for your court date. Glory be to Jesus!
Glad to hear things are moving along nicely and we loved the pictures. We haven't gotten that many of our boys. They just move too fast to catch all the expressions they have. Svetlana is a cutie pie! She looks sooooo happy. I think you may be in and out Kiev before we get there but maybe we will catch you on the tail end. Hopefully! Blessings to you in the name of the Lord,
Laura and Rob
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