Decree Day!

Hi Everyone,

Corrine keeps asking what a Decree is so I finally told her it was a French word for “The Indian”. Anyway I’ll start on Thursday 6:30 AM Corrine was out of bed like a shot. She made coffee and was walking around the apartment singing like a bird cause she was goin’ shopping! We had made arrangements to pick-up Nicholas at 9:30 to take him to the market for clothes. Corrine was in her glory! We had no problems shopping Nicholas was well behaved and enjoyed the trip asking us to buy him something. It didn’t matter what as long as it was something. We all had a laugh at that. He also asked Corrine what her name was in Ukrainian. She replied, Toilet? He asked again, same reply. Now he’s getting frustrated so the volume goes up and he asks again, Corrine looking very concerned replied again Toilet? He yelled the last time only to get the same answer, then he gave up. Vitaly was splitting a gut the whole time, and as usual I was dreaming of being anywhere other than shopping. It didn’t take long for toilet and I to pick out what he needed then head back to the orphanage. Along the way he said to me “Papa toilet” so we found him a spot just off the street so the fountain of youth could gush. I spent the rest of the day in a miserable mood expecting the worst on Friday, and especially dreading what is to come regarding the passports.

Friday morning I got up then spent an hour trying to get Corrine up. (No shopping no hurry.) Vitaly left around 8:30 to pick-up the decree and then called us to be ready to go at 9:45 to go get the birth certificates. (I’m still amazed it was ready) I was dreading this because they had to come from the district that had caused us a ton of trouble in the past, and I was positive it would be a repeat, and add a few more days to our stay. We arrived at 10:30 only to discover the person we needed to see was in the hospital. (I guess another family got to her first) Her assistant was there and after a few phone calls and a few white lies we had them in hand by 3:00. We raced back to Hmelnitsky to go to the justice dept. for legalization of the cert.s, then to the notary for legal copies. THE KIDS ARE LEGALLY OURS! It was too late to apply for passports today so we hope to do that Monday. Vitaly found out at 4:45 that we need another paper from the problem area that the assistant didn’t think was important so the problems from that district continue, but Vitaly is confident he will get it Monday AM. (I hope so)

So now all we need are passports to travel to Kiev. Once we get there we apply for citizenship papers for the kids. When we get that we travel to the airport then travel to…….oh crap! I forget where we came from.

Tomorrow is Tanya’s big day at the market so Corrine will be up early and chomping at the bit to get going. Sunday we’re taking the kids to say good bye to a relative. The weekend should go past fast.

We just got a call, the district will have the documents ready today! The assistant is afraid of the extra paperwork when we are gone (Vitaly’s fib is paying off again) on Monday. She volunteered to stay late to fix the problem. We got there at 6:45 she completed the job, but it didn’t print well so she said if the dept. justice won’t accept them we can get new ones without our signature. With documents in hand we went for supper pizza, beer and wine to celebrate a good day. Afterh that wee kame hommme for some postingz and fun and then some tv ot whatever mmmmmmmmmmbeeeeer zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


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