Practicing the Gifts

Rainy morning in Kiev.
We had our morning all planned. I should say that "I" had our morning all planned. Ed is much more flexible.
We had a lady coming this morning at 9:30 to pay for 2 more nights on our apartment here in Kiev. We were going to leave right after to visit a religious pilgrimage site. I had it all down to the "T".
The lady was late. We called Olga at 10am to find out when Elaina was coming. Olga then said that she wanted to take us to the pilgrimage site. Ok - still doable and we could still be back by 3:00pm for our SDA paperwork appointment.
Elaina finally showed up(such an incredibly nice girl. We are eating at a restaurant of her recommendation tonight). We hurried through lunch so that we could meet Olga. Waited.... Olga called and she was not going to make it after all due to a busy work schedule, but if we wanted we could go on our own. We did not have time now to make it there and back. Talk about disappointed. This is where practicing the gifts of the Spirit come in.
I was in sore need of a reminder. Patience and self-control were the 2 I focused on this afternoon. Unfortunately I had to dust them off a bit!




So we played Uno for the afternoon. Then it was Peter's turn to practice his gifts. He is still not the best loser! Here he is playing against his green car.
The main event of the day... we got our paperwork to travel down to "K's" region. This is the paperwork that gives us the permission to meet him and get his medical history. We are all very excited about this and a bit scared too in all honesty. We are sure that there are still things we do not know about this little guy. We don't even know if he will like us!
Olga mentioned today that our court date may still be 3 weeks out. She said that is the "long" case scenario. We are praying for something much sooner. We spoke with several different families today, all adopting children. One couple seemed very upset. They did not seem to know that the entire process would take 5-6 weeks. We can be very glad that we were informed of all of this before hand.
Tonight we spent our evening eating German schnitzel and sausage on what has to be the ritziest street in all of Ukraine. The way everyone is dressed is straight off the fashion runway. Mixed in are the people asking for money. The difference is stark. The whole thing was quite an eye-opener for the kids.
We'll leave you with a few pics from our evening. Everyone is in agreement that the city life is not for us, even if the "re-partment" is "cool". 'Till tomorrow.












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