Its a hard knock life.....

I would love to try and gain everyone's sympathy with how difficult it is her in Chernivtsy but the reality is that we are double blessed. We are staying in the apartment of our new Ukrainian friends. It is a 3 bedroom apartment with a full bath, 2nd toilet and large kitchen. It is a new apartment, so new that the complex is not finished yet. It is beautiful and very comfortable with all needed amenities and many extras. One of our extras is "Lisa" a very playful kitten sharing our apartment with us. She does have a Zorro streak and has already marked Jessica with a "L" on her right hand. the kids love playing with her. All I can say and well I should is God is amazing.

Yesterday we found out that one of the documents we needed for court did not have the boys birth dates on it. We were required to pay additional funds to expedite the corrected document or wait an additional 2 weeks, needless to say the 500 grevina requested was obvious choice.

Also yesterday at noon we met with the chief of the childrens services and then on to the Internate. As before all 3 boys waited for us outside the building, we took the boys out to get their passport photos and then went for Pizza.

Today we spent the morning relaxing at the apartment, at 1:30 our cab picked us up and took us to the Internate. The director had invited us the day before to attend a production by the children in honor of women's day which is a holiday that will be celebrated this Sunday. The performance was interesting and we were able to see some of the children we met last summer. It is always difficult to see children who want a home but are not at this time being adopted.

After the performance we met in the directors office to request a "pass" for the boys to take them ice skating. The director was very hospitable serving us tea and coffee while we waited for our facilitator to return. Once the formalities were finished we took the boys to the rink. Prior to leaving they asked if a friend to come as well. We explained that we would love for him to come but we only had the pass for them and it was against the rules for us to take other children. Our host and friend along with her 2 boys and her niece met us at the rink.

The children skated for about an hour with our taxi driver and friends. After ice skating we took everyone to Marios pizza for dinner ( just a side note, upon our return to the US we will be abstaining from pizza for an undetermined period of time) we then returned the children to the Internate and went back to our apartment for the day.