New Friends

We believe that God does bring the right people into our lives at the right time. The last couple of weeks have been like that. A team arrived at my (Jim's) office to complete a financial audit. One of the auditors was working a similar job in Moscow four years ago. They decided to adopt and found it easier to adopt from Ukraine instead of Russia. They adopted three boys and gave lots of good advice. One of the things that we had not given any thought to was the fact that multiple kids from the same family often end up in different orphanages. This may require seperate court cases for each of the kids.

During the second week of the audit we had an additional auditor who grew up in Moldova, a country that borders Ukraine and also was part of the former Soviet Union. He tipped us off to a great web site for online videos in Russian. Here's a couple of our favorite sites: http://etvnet.ca/ and http://www.wwitv.com/.

Teresa continues to collect alot of things for the trip. I'll supply a picture soon. I keep repeating a couple of lines we've learned from other blogs. "When packing less is more" and "Remember you are going to take your children to America, not taking America to your kids" I don't think she hears me. She just bought one of those hand held things that you can weigh your luggage with.

If you have advice for things to take on an international trip we'd love to hear from you.