We are excited to leave today for our second trip to cold Ukraine. As you know, our first trip revealed that "S" had a sister who was also in the orphanage system. Officials would not allow us to separate these siblings. Since our last trip, she has turned 18 and is no longer in the orphanage system. This may allow us to proceed with our adoption of "S". We are also excited meet "S" 's sister again and are looking forward to talking more with this lovely young woman, getting to know her and helping her out financially in Ukraine.
Since our last trip we've been communicting with "S" weekly via a translator over the phone. One of his wonderful teachers in the orphanage has been teaching him English. So far he's been able to tell us, "Hi.", "It's winter here." and "Can you bring me a cell phone?" Ha! That last one is going in our "Funny Kids' Sayings" book at home. Why does every kid on the planet want a phone?!
I'll be blogging daily once we are in our flat. Last time I heard many people had trouble getting my blog as an RSS feed after subscribing. Our agency has helped us with this problem with this blog watcher's tip;
How do you know when a post is added? RSS updates have been unreliable. Here’s a tip: Set up your own blog page, just for tracking blog updates on Blogspot. You can do that within 5 minutes. In the Design tab you can see the blog layout with “Add a Gadget” on the right column. Add the gadget for “Blogs I’m Watching”. Then add the URLs of all the blogs you want to track. Whenever a blog on your list is updated with a new post, it will show up at the top of the column with a time indicator. Just hit this page to check for updates and it is easy to see who has updated their blog and how long ago the entry was posted.
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