Steve was able to make flight arrangements and we arrived home around 6am on Tuesday, 9/30. Monday into Tuesday we traveled from Simferopol to Kiev, flew from Kiev to London and then to JFK in New York, rented a car and drove home. Poor Steve, I don't know how he stayed awake to drive, except that Kelly made a few attempts at scaring him to get his heart racing. Yesterday was spent sleeping, readjusting, unpacking and visiting with family. It was so good to spend time with them.
The girls said they did not want to come home as we were discussing about leaving Ukraine. Kelly also had tears in her eyes as we were saying good-bye to our translator and driver, but was ready to come home. Steve too was ready to depart. Although our trip was great in many ways, there is no place like home. Once home, we all said how glad we were to be here. If you walked in our house yesterday, you would have thought it looked like Christmas with the girls toys strewn out around the house!
Our next flight is slated for October 14, with our court date scheduled for October 16 at 2pm. After court, our adoption will be considered final and then we may post photos of Cole which we are excited to do!
Originally, we planned for our trip to be longer during the first phase in Ukraine, but with the inspector on vacation and then choosing to come home sooner, our second trip will now be the longer portion. We are using the round trip portion of our flight home yesterday to return on 10/14 and have purchased RT tickets for the girls too, in the event that they will return with us for a portion of the second part of the trip. We'll need to make some decisions about that. The round trip portion of our original tickets will be used for our final trip home from Ukraine.
We'll need to get our spare bedroom transformed into a little boy's room which should be a lot of fun doing. Steve has some sports theme ideas floating around in his head!
We have reflected on the prayer requests we had and the answers to prayer the Lord has provided to us on this trip. We will always remember that Tuesday morning in our apartment in Simferopol, with tears in our eyes as we discussed the ways the Lord had confirmed things to us and the manner in which He clarified things that weren't originally clear to us. He is amazing.
Thanks again to all of you who have been praying for and encouraging us along this journey. Your love, kindness and support has fueled us up along the way. We love you all.
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