Update #2

It’s 1pm Kiev time, and Natasha has just told us we have our court date! It’s Oct 27th, one day after Mena’s 4th birthday. This is such good news- we were bracing ourselves for the thought of being here for another month, having to sleep in a cardboard box under a bridge somewhere!

So here’s how it goes: Court in 8 days. Then after the decree is made (and please G-d, it goes in our favour) we have to wait 10 days for it to go into effect. If 10 days go by and nobody contests the adoption (family doesn’t magically turn up out of the woodwork) then Mena will officially be our daughter forever!

Now we are at 18 days. Then we go back to Kiev with Mena, and tie up all the loose ends there with Ukrainian & Canadian Embassy paperwork and passports, the interview with the Canadian immigration officials, another medical I believe, and then we buy her a plane ticket and we fly home for good. It will all be over and the only thing to do from that point will be normal family life. Yippee!

So tentatively speaking, we are looking at being home around Sat Nov 13th if all goes to plan, and I’m not missing any Ukrainian holidays where stuff is shut, we don’t have any last minute hitches, etc. Pray for us! And hopefully we’ll see you all soon!