Bringing Home A.J.

Follow the process of our journey to Bring Home Andrew James. Please keep us in your prayers as we await our court date to make A.J. legally our son. Ancesters immigrated to America from the Ukraine about 100 years ago, so when we are able to bring home our little A.J., he will also provide a special link to our past.

Friday, March 31, 2006

APPOINTMENT RESULT!!

Annie Jane sure is a funny name for a BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's right I said BOY!!!!!!! We have a beautiful 4 year old precious boy. This morning was long and tedious. When we arrived at the adoption center we had to wait 2.5 hours outside the office. ( Ukrainians don't have the same time urgencies that Americans do) We finally got in and the process began again. Before I ( Eric ) could even sit down I saw the boy we were going to adopt. His picture was laying on the desk with several other pictures. I made a comment that he was cute and I never looked back. Even going through the other profiles I still had my eyes on this little boy. He reminded me so much of our other son Brandon. His smile lit up the picture and it looked like he was very happy. After going through the process we looked at this boy along with two other profiles. We were not sure if this boy along with the other profiles were available to adopt or not so our facilitator was going to make some calls. We took a two hour lunch break in which I was a nervous wreck because all I could think about was this boy and how precious his smile was. After eating lunch we met with our facilitator in which she told us that this 4 year old boy was in fact available and we could not hold back our grins. We are so excited about this opportunity and we truly believe God had this child picked out for us. Miracles happen everyday and it is SO AWESOME TO EXPERIENCE THIS. Our prayers all along have been that God would give us BOTH a peace about the same child and they were answered through the blessings of this 4 year old boy. We know all of you have been praying for us and we have felt your prayers. Satan was truly on the attack last night and this morning so we appreciate so much all of your prayers and support. We could not have gotten through this far without it. Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts. We get to meet our precious new son on Monday morning. He lives close to Odessa near the Black Sea so we will take an overnight train Sunday night.