This afternoon, in answer to many prayers, we were able to get Mikaela’s U.S. immigrant visa, which means that we are clear to fly home tomorrow morning! We have been […]

Wow, it is hard to believe that it has been almost a week since Mikaela came to live with us. We love having her here, and she seems to be […]

This morning, we finally applied for Mikaela’s passport! We are very, very excited to have this step behind us, for that was the piece that we needed in order to […]

First, the bad news. We still have not been able to apply for Mikaela’s passport. After gathering all of the necessary papers and having her passport picture taken, we found […]

Okay. We did not accomplish everything that we set out to this morning, but it was still an encouraging day. Just after 3:30 this afternoon, Yulia called to ask if […]

Well, today has not gone as we had expected. The driver was late picking up Yulia from the train station this morning, so instead of leaving our place at 8:00 […]

After a week-and-a-half of visiting Mikaela in the mornings, returning to our apartment for the afternoon and evening, and doing little else, we are getting ready to jump into the […]

This can’t be long, because it is late, and I am very tired. There are just a few things I wanted to post. The first is that we finally have […]

Because of the rain, we weren’t able to make it to McDonald’s yesterday afternoon. I wrote this post yesterday, but this is the first chance I have had to post […]

Today’s visit was somewhat better. Mikaela still has a bit of a cough, and the orphanage doctor seems a bit concerned by it, but we did get a bit of […]