Our First Post

Well, now seems as good a time as any to post our first update on our adoption process.  Last Friday, we received our I-171H (our golden ticket to bring a child back to the United States).  On Monday, we got the letter apostilled (basically, notarized by the state) and sent it to Kiev, Ukraine.  As of today (Wednesday), the letter had departed France and should arrive in Kiev tonight or tomorrow.  Sending this letter was our last part in the process.  Now, we wait . . .  Lord willing, all of our paperwork (our dossier) will be presented next week to the State Department of Adoption (SDA) in Ukraine.  God has allowed this process to move so quickly up until this point.  We are not sure when we will travel to Ukraine, but we will find that out after the SDA receives our dossier.  They will then give us the date of when we need to be in Ukraine.  Three families that were a part of the hosting camp in August where we met Artyr have already received their dates for their SDA appointment.  Dusty and Tina Kuntsbeck, who are adopting Dima, have to be there on the 29th of November.  Russ (Sr.) and Lori Walk's SDA appointment is on the 30th of November.  Russ and Lori are adopting Eddick and Lena.  Eric and Cindy Noel, who are adopting Dema, will have their SDA appointment on the 8th of December.  It is so exciting that these families are so close to adopting their children.  For those of you that are reading this and have not been a part of the journey up until this point, we are attempting to post a video of the hosting camp in August (as soon as it uploads to YouTube), so that you can see the faces of all of these lovely children.  So, please check back to the blog frequently.  We are so blessed to have the opportunity to have Artyr as a part of our family, and we appreciate your prayers for the process.  Please pray for all of the families that are going through this process, as well!  Thank you!

Have a God day!
the Rose family