Media Stars?

Crazy day.

Vitaly our driver is constantly saying, "Crazy Driver." Today I would call a "crazy Ukrainian day."

We met Olga at the orphanage to finish up paperwork and business there. Surprise! It was not going to be as easy as that. We had to be back at the orphanage at 3:00 pm to partake in a "special" visit from an official lady.

This special lady is the wife of the governor of the district of Sevastopol. She is the one who petitioned for Timothy to be moved up from number 600 on the waiting list to being operated on right away. This all happened in the course of us getting our paperwork together and waiting for our appointment date. It seems that there was much public interest in the story. We were given a copy of a newspaper article - in Russian, of course.

So this lady was really not all that pleased when she found out that a foreign family would be adopting her special interest child. Government money was used for his surgery (not donations as we were previously told) and she wanted to meet this family. In we walk, totally unprepared.

They had Timothy's group room all decorated nice with flowers. The other children were kept in the bedroom and only Timothy was allowed in the main room. He was dressed very nice, no underpants, t-shirt and head scarf. He looked like a little man. The governor's wife was dressed to the nines and there was the assistant governor with her as well as a reporter and camera man. We walked in in our shorts and sandals - hair all messed up from driving to business office after business office with the windows down. We were totally taken off guard.

We were asked several questions. We answered, but are pretty sure the majority of what we said was not translated. Sadness on the part of the wife was expressed that the "cute boy" was not staying in Ukraine. We were asked to keep her informed of Timothy's progress over the years. And many other things, too much to name.

We then were interviewed by the reporter and after that went to officially sign Timothy out of the orphanage. All of this was taped. They even video taped our passports and paperwork until Ed spoke up and asked them not to as it was personal information.

This was not at all what we had envisioned happening on this day. we are trying to keep the focus of why we are here. We are here because God caused a stirring in our hearts to bring a little boy into our family. To love and care for him regardless of his condition, regardless of his nationality.
We fly to Kiev tomorrow. We will pick Timothy up at the orphanage at 5:00 am. From the airport in Kiev we will head directly to the US embassy where Ed will apply for Timothy's visa and I will take Timothy to the Dr. for the embassy check up. We hope to blog tomorrow to let everyone know how the trip went, but are not sure how our internet connection will be.
So, until tomorrow! We travel with your prayers.




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