FLYING HOME and Crazy Cold!

Well the big news is that we have tickets to fly home next Friday, February 10th!  As incredibly exciting as this is to us we still have a few hurdles to get through so we are counting down the days... while still  holding our breath.

When we get on the plane on Friday we will probably feel like this...

Now I know that this is an old picture and I will probably get in trouble for having posted it but I thought it best depicts the excitement and anticipation and just pure joy we will feel when we board that plane next week.

The last four days have been consumed with going back and forth between notary offices, internal passport offices, external passport offices, many times over.  Our facilitator told us that this has been the most complicated passport application that she has had in her eleven years of working in adoptions... LUCKY US!

Seven hours just today of waiting in the car, waiting outside of offices, driving back and forth etc... but I have to say our girls were troopers!  Thankfully at the end of the day we can say that things are still moving in a forward momentum.

Some of you who follow me on Facebook have seen me post how cold it is here in Ukraine.  In the news today, it said that 101 people have lost their lives to the intensely cold conditions in just the last week.  Most of those are homeless people as 64 of them were actually found dead on the street.  It's quite tragic!!!  Upwards of 1000 have been hospitalized with hypothermia and frostbite and other related conditions.  It's expected that tonight could drop down to -25.6 F in some areas of Ukraine.  

The elderly and homeless are of course most at risk and could certainly use our prayers!

Ty and I thankfully have a nice little space heater in our room... although the heat works in the apartment it just has too much cold to keep up with.  Here is a pic of my honey warming his feet, reading a book and drinking his tea...