WOW!

So, I spoke with our facilitator today. Here are our next steps:

• Send I-600 Immigration form along with payment off to Texas.
• Go to Indy for Biometrics appointment (fingerprinting)
• Sign and notarize our dossier papers
• Send said papers to Indy (or day trip?...so much more tempting if there was an IKEA) for apostille. Interestingly enough, Indiana is the only state that apostilles for free! Normally it is $30/document. We have 30 documents to have apostilled. That is a lot of money that we are saving by living in sweet Indiana! (I knew there was a reason that I don't complain too much about the weather...) -SIDE NOTE: Apostille is basically like having something notarized, but on steroids.
• Send all of this to Ukraine to be audited by KGB. (We have watched Mission Impossible enough to know about those people).
• Get invitation to Ukraine for SDA appointment.
• Go to Ukraine for one week.
• Come home for 2-3 weeks.
• Go back to Ukraine for 1 day for court. (Garth will come home after this, while I am planning to stay for 3 more weeks and bring home our son)
• 10 day waiting period after court.
• GOTCHA DAY!
• 10 days of government document gathering, passports, visa, etc.
• HOME! To Indiana. Home of the free apostilles.

How long will this take, you ask? Barring any monkey wrenches, we will be going to Ukraine in TWELVE weeks. 

I am so excited. And completely in amazement. And totally open to see HOW God is going to provide for this.

What can you do? 

Pray! Pray for our process. Pray for the grants that we are applying for. Pray for safe travel. Pray for Grace, Claire and Wyatt as they are getting ready for another sibling. Pray for Garth and I as we are humbled again and again when we see God working in this situation. Pray for our sweet D who is not with us now, but will be soon, that his heart may be soft to God and to family and that his health can stay strong through all the travel and transition.