THANK YOU, Village!
We've had so much to be thanksful for during this Thanksgiving season!
It's been 29 days since our first home study visit with our social worker, and already he is about to submit his final draft of the home study to our adoption agency. As this part of the process draws to a close, we just have to take a minute to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped us get this far! That includes employers who prepared documents for us, people who notarized letters and forms for us, our adoption caseworker who goes above and beyond her regular responsibilities to translate letters into Ukrainian for us, and so on... Right down to the nice post office employee who confuses Russian and Ukrainian. He always says thank you and goodbye to me in Russian. :) It's the thought that counts, of course, and it always makes me smile that he remembers why I'm there... at the post office... yet again...
Most importantly, we need to thank all those people who agreed to be references for us... both the people who actually wrote letters, as well as those who were prepared to write letters if needed! We could have never guessed just how many people - from both our past and our present - we would need to call upon to bear witness to our character! We've been absolutely humbled by the responses that we've received. Those of you who wrote letters truly outdid yourselves. Our gratitute is beyond anything that words can express.
We can't wait to someday share our adoption story with Tetyana and Margarita so that they will know just how many people in our "village" were involved in bringing them home!
