We have an appt. date

We have an appt. date
We finally heard that we have our appt. for our SDA appt.. Which means we are going to Ukraine to get our children.... Woo Hoo ! Our date is June 3 ... We will now be making travel and childcare arrangements... It is very hard to believe we have reached this point . All of our other adoptions happened fairly quickly and these have taken a long time to finally come to this point... It has been a very trying and frustrating time and yet we have learned much during this time we have waited. Our one child and her sisters we have been waiting for over 3 yrs now to come home. Please pray for us as we journey into this next part of our adoption adventure.The kids are excited and processing thru just what this means... for the older ones they understand and have already put in some requests for food items they want us to buy in Ukriane... We are praying about who will travel with us as well. Our plans are to do this in 2 trips... We can't do what we did for our last adoption when we were in country for 5 weeks... So we are hoping to spit this up and will probably take Ben on the first trip and Joseph / Ben or one on the second trip. The little ones seem excited but we know that it is very hard on them for us to be away. Fortunately we will be done with our homeschool. It will be our first adoption trip without them having to do school. Mary Kate is praising that... We are in the process of doing an addition and are hoping to have it done by then- this is a real prayer request. As well as the money for all 5 of these adoptions. We are doing this addition with the help of a friend and we are adding on but not doing the addition that would have cost the most... Fortunately the company Paul works for has a wonderful adoption benefit of 10,000 per child, per adoption... We have to get reimbursed for our expenses which means we have to come up with the money before we go. This amount never totally covers it all but the Lord has always provided and we know he will this time as well.So won't you celebrate with us the blessing it is to receive a child into your life...... Or 5 ;)