Ukraine Adoption

TGI Friday for whom?

We have rainy/snowy and overall gloomy weather here today and it's so hard to get excited about anything. So I browsed through some of the blogs of families who are in Ukraine right now and it reminded me that no matter how dreary our days might look, at least we're here in the good ol' USA where there's hot water, American TV and a language that we can recognize (most of the time.) And say what you want about the U.S. government, but you don't know the hassles and delays of bureaucracy until you've tried an international adoption.

And I hope my sister doesn't mind, but I'm quoting her comment from a previous blog when I wrote about waking Tara Vika up every morning, because it really says it all:

I pray for all the mothers and fathers out there: Stay with their adoption process, no matter how difficult and frustrating. Don't give up on a child who is waiting for you to gently wake them up. Don't give up on a child who is waiting to find their dream is real.