It's done!

Well, it took all day and a few tears, but I finally got our airline and hotel reservations changed. "That will be six hundred dollars more per ticket", she says. What?! After stressing about that, I called back later and was told $200. We leave on April 6, as originally planned, but come home on April 21. That puts us in Moscow a few days early without much to do, but I'm sure we'll make the most of it.

Our new court date is Wednesday, April 12. Please, please, please be praying for us on April 11 (Russia is half a day ahead).

Hoops

I'm getting so good at jumping through hoops!

I got word while at school this morning that our travel dates to Russia have been changed. Court is now on April 12 so we will need to leave two days later and stay a day longer. No problem, right? Big problem, according to Delta. They have no seats! So now we're looking at flying out on April 9th all the way from DFW to Novosibirsk. That's about 20 hours of flying non-stop (except for changing planes twice). We will be so dead when we arrive! Not only that, but the cost of the hotel goes up to $400 a night during that time. With breakfast at $90 for the four of us, this is one expensive change (not to mention airline penalties for our three tickets and Zack's two)! But who's counting pennies when there's a little boy to bring home?!

So now I need to get busy changing vet, eye doctor, pediatrician, and dental appointments by a few days. My head is aching! :)

The call we've been waiting for!

I've been busy getting Zack's room ready



After some weeks of threatening the life of anyone in the family who spends any time tying up the telephone line, our call has finally come in! We travel to Russia April 6 - 18. Our court date is April 10, so PLEASE be praying for us on April 9 (Russia is half a day ahead).

I have to go do some "nesting" now!

Shari

Playing the Waiting Game once again

We received an update from our adoption agency today.  Seems things in Novosibirsk have slowed a bit (probably just real busy because many families are traveling right now) and our paperwork has not yet finished going through all the proper channels in Russia.  It’s looking like it will be mid- to late-March before we can return to get Geniy.

The big issue in our household right now is whether or not Nick will return to Russia with us.  We are VERY TIGHT on funds (can you say "non-existent"?) and it will be a hard trip, so we have been talking to Nick about staying behind.  But he will not hear of it.  He has explained to us that he is just as much a part of this as we are and that he has had to endure the painful waiting and all the running around getting documents signed as we have.  He insists he will be going, as he has earned it (and it’s HIS brother, after all!).

Children … what a blessing!  :)