As I recall, the fruit of the spirit are: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, goodness and self-control. Patience is a virtue, a fruit of the spirit and right now might hard to come by. Waiting is such a big part of adopting here in Ukraine. Waiting for fingerprint appointments and apostille work, waiting for I-600A approval, waiting for appointment at the SDA, waiting for a referral, waiting for 3 pm everyday to spend our 3 hours with the girls, waiting for a court date, 10 day post court waiting period, and waiting to come home. So you can see patience is needed. It is sooo very hard to be this close and yet still have to wait for so many steps to get these girls out of Yuglegorsk and in our home where they belong. If you recall the Bill Murray movie, "Ground Hog Day," Cari and I feel like each day that same alarm clock goes off and the same day gets played out again and again, only no paunxetawny Phil.
The visitation time was great today as usual. Inna was a bit more subdued than normal, getting bored and ready to get on with the final steps. Inna and Rada are watching as the families who came before us are making final preperations for their kids to leave the orphanage and go to Kiev next tuesday. Meanwhile we all wait. So patience is running short for the girls, more so with Inna.
Rada continues to soak in the time together, she is so excited to have a Mom and Dad that waiting for her is no problem. Tomorrow we go to church.
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