Today has brought some closure to our situation. Nina has found out the there was a mistake about Y’s father and it will be corrected. The lawyer for the Orphanage will go to court in a few weeks and hopefully have the error corrected. Then the Y’s paperwork can be redone and she can get registered. Once registered there is a 12 month waiting period. This means we will only be bringing home two of the four with us, and God has given us a peace about it. I do ask that you pray for Y & S in that while they seem to understand what is going on they don’t understand why it happened and why it can’t be fixed now. We know that God has brought us here now for a reason and I just hope we fulfill his wishes.
We are now falling into a routine that we do everyday and it is hard to stay upbeat with all the waiting here. Time does not matter as much here as it does back home. When someone says one hour it means 3 or 4. We normally wake up around 8:00 and Kim has coffee and I try to read or something to occupy my time. Once we get a shower and get ready (today our hot water heater did not work so we had to take a cold PTA bath) we go to the Intourist Hotel where we have internet access and we check emails, post new blog entries and try to do what little work I can but it is not much. The kids are in school until 13:00, that’s 1:00 pm for you Americans, so we don’t go to see them until after that. Our translator Denis is usually running around getting the necessary documents we need to go to court but as I mentioned before it can take all day to get one paper signed and copied. Once we get to the Orphanage all seems well because the excitement of seeing the kids and seeing there excitement to see us makes you for get about all the down time for a while. We normally stay until about 18:00 or 19:00 and then we go back to the apartment, eat something and settle in for the night. Then it’s off to bed and start all over.
We are now falling into a routine that we do everyday and it is hard to stay upbeat with all the waiting here. Time does not matter as much here as it does back home. When someone says one hour it means 3 or 4. We normally wake up around 8:00 and Kim has coffee and I try to read or something to occupy my time. Once we get a shower and get ready (today our hot water heater did not work so we had to take a cold PTA bath) we go to the Intourist Hotel where we have internet access and we check emails, post new blog entries and try to do what little work I can but it is not much. The kids are in school until 13:00, that’s 1:00 pm for you Americans, so we don’t go to see them until after that. Our translator Denis is usually running around getting the necessary documents we need to go to court but as I mentioned before it can take all day to get one paper signed and copied. Once we get to the Orphanage all seems well because the excitement of seeing the kids and seeing there excitement to see us makes you for get about all the down time for a while. We normally stay until about 18:00 or 19:00 and then we go back to the apartment, eat something and settle in for the night. Then it’s off to bed and start all over.
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