We leave for Kiev Tomorrow morning!

Well the big day is almost here. I can hardly believe it is really happening. We have waited a very long time to bring our Anya home. As we look back and remember all that has happened we can truly see God's handy work. Every detail has been in his control even when we/I fought so hard to control things myself. we were very shocked and anxiety filled over the short notice and getting everything ready in time, but even that, we now know was the best thing and of course God knew that all along. God knows I would not do well if I had a month or 6 weeks to prepare for this trip, I have hardly slept since we got the date,I am often sick to my stomach, over emotional, my system is all out of whack. You can only handle so many days of that. As many of you know Matt has had an ankle injury that has kept him out of work for the past four weeks now, and he will be traveling in a walking boot (has to have it 7 more weeks) At first we were upset over this and wondering why God would let him get hurt and not work when are preparing to travel and can not afford to be without income. We now see even this was part of Gods perfect plan. Had Matt not been off work the past few weeks we would have not gotten down to Denver to update our fingerprints and documents for the second dossier and all of the other preparation we had done before we got our notice to travel. And this way Matt gets to spend the remainder his recovery time combined with the adoption trip, so he will not miss work twice. Everything is working out just the way He planned it. We are so thankful for all the good friends and family who have been used by God to bless us and help the details of this trip come into place. You are all wonderful.Special Thank you to Twyla & Johnny, you are the best. By the way Mom, your comment posted just fine, it works! Leaving my girls is going to be the hardest part of this whole thing. Thank you Mom for taking care of them while we are away. They handled it pretty well today when we said goodbye before school. There were just a few tears, and lots of hugs. I love you both so much, don't worry God will make sure you are cared for while we are gone too. Our flight leaves DIA at about 12:30 in afternoon, we fly to Chicago and have a three hour lay over then on to Switzerland 1 hour lay over and onto Kiev. We are scheduled to arrive Sunday about 3:45 in afternoon Ukraine time. We are hoping to be able to update the blog each day, but you all know how Internet access goes, you never can tell. I will do my best to write many details for all the families who will be going after us. It has been so helpful to read the blogs of people who went ahead of us, I feel much more prepared. It is a strange thing to think about up and leaving your whole life for 4-6 weeks. We are a little sad at all the things we will miss while we are away. We will miss many of the girls soccer and volleyball games, and choir concerts. I am for the first time in 6 years going to miss leading the kids choir at church, all you fellow leaders know my heart and prayers will be with you on Sunday during the first practice. Jane(or whom ever is lucky enough to get the kindergartners) bring candy! Also to Peggy and all adult choir, I am praying for the special on Sunday hope it is all that God wants it to be. We will miss Taylor's 16th birthday-so sorry Taylor we will celebrate when we are home if you want too. We will miss Koyla's welcome home party and seeing all of the families from our adoption/hosting group. Wendy & Joe hope that goes well! Matt is most upset that he will miss Dairy Queen blizzards. A final note if any of you are bored to death with my ramblings you can thank Lisa for this, she insisted that I post to the blog before we leave. I told her it was not exciting and that I would write when something actually happens, but she told me I was up all night anyway and I had plenty of time to do it. So it is not the middle of the night but, I do have some time so here it is. Thanks Lisa, you know I love you!