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4/5/07 - Met with Irina's Grandfather 9 Dec 2008 | 05:02 pm
Another long day but worth it!!! We woke early, headed to the orphanage, picked up Ira, pronounced (ee-ra, rolling the r). We then went to Ira's school and picked up her teacher and headed out to meet...
4/7/07 - Met 2nd teacher 9 Dec 2008 | 05:02 pm
Starting to feel guilty if we don't make a daily entry to keep everyone up to speed. Spent time today with Irina. Went for a walk through the woods across from the orphanage. We met her 2nd mama, Lubo...
4/11/07 - Birth Certificate fiasco... 9 Dec 2008 | 05:02 pm
We are in a holding pattern trying to get this birth certificate thing corrected. It would take pages to explain the process, steps and offices that need to be involved to get this (what you might con...
4/14/07 - One more step closer!?! 9 Dec 2008 | 05:02 pm
Today Sergey woke early to pick up the orphanage lawyer and head for the local civil records office in the village Ira was born to get a new birth certificate. The documents made it there yesterday vi...
4/14/07 - God is good! 9 Dec 2008 | 05:02 pm
Although we sent out a blog earlier today, we knew we had to follow-up. The good news was that Sergey brought back THE Birth Certificate!!! We are thrilled of course. Monday we will acquire the remain...
4/17/07 - The Longest Day!!! 9 Dec 2008 | 05:02 pm
Yesterday started out looking like we had to get one signature from the local inspector (conclusion) and submit our request for a court date to the local judge and then send our package on a train to ...
4/18/07 - Hanging out, sort of... 9 Dec 2008 | 05:02 pm
We have a slight lull. We found that our documents made it back to Kyiv yesterday and were submitted to the SDA today. We are again asking for some Divine intervention to move things along quickly so ...
4/19/07 - 27 Years and counting! 9 Dec 2008 | 05:02 pm
Today we celebrate our 27th anniversary. We will do some shopping, see Ira and go out to dinner someplace... But first we would like to pay our respects as a result of the tragedy that occurred at Vir...
4/20/07 - Getting ready for the weekend... 9 Dec 2008 | 05:02 pm
Good day yesterday. Did some orphanage shopping and got quite a bit done. A little bit more and we should be good to go... Spent a couple hours with Ira yesterday (more English). Since we plan to pay ...
4/22/07 - Weekend of joy... 9 Dec 2008 | 05:02 pm
We were busy this weekend starting Friday. We spent some time with the Orphanage Director (Vera). We asked what we could do for the orphanage. She wanted a curtain for a stage that they use to do smal...
