(Annette kissing our snowman from this past January)Steve bought some snow boots on Friday. Yep, snow boots! Why? Well, because even though we moved all the way to Tennessee to get away from the NY winters, we are going to be freezing our wimpy little hineys off way over in Ukraine this December and January! Well, maybe the hotels will be cheaper...
I am quickly joining you fellow almost-travelers in becoming obsessed about packing! What to take? What not to take? What to buy there? Everyone says to travel light so I plan on doing my best! This is so unbelievable to be this close to leaving the country for over a month!!!! Yikes!!
Only 46 days until we leave.
Steve did the math. 46 days! Yikes again!!
I worked last night on a new template for moving our Loved Already site to a Blogger page. It will be much easier to maintain. We wanted a regular site to display all our different pages but we are getting to the point where it will mostly be just blogging from here on out. I'm glad because I like designing my own look and also I don't really like the Yahoo Web Hosting Blog format. It is rather a pain in the neck!
We are going for dinner tonight at the home of some people we know from the Ukrainian Slavic Full-Gospel church here in Knoxville! Vera is cooking up some Borscht and I don't know what else. I think I will bake some bread this afternoon to take along. I'm not sure what is expected according to Ukrainian culture when one goes visiting. Maybe Nataliya can give me a hint!!??
Check out this post on my sister-in-law's family blog! It is so funny!
Please remember our family, particularly the girls, in prayer. I mentioned a while back that Steve's Grandmother was failing. We are surprised that she is still with us but it is becoming clear that she won't hold out much longer. Annette is taking the thought of this very hard and Hannah will have a very difficult time too but she doesn't show it as much. Ivy, at two, doesn't really know much but was falling all over our little weeping Annette with hugs last night after Annette burst into tears on the phone with Great-Grandma.
We take great comfort in knowing that Grandma has been aching to go to Heaven for 10 years to be with her husband since he passed on. We'll see her again. We wish that our adopted kids could have met her.
I am quickly joining you fellow almost-travelers in becoming obsessed about packing! What to take? What not to take? What to buy there? Everyone says to travel light so I plan on doing my best! This is so unbelievable to be this close to leaving the country for over a month!!!! Yikes!!
Only 46 days until we leave.
Steve did the math. 46 days! Yikes again!!
I worked last night on a new template for moving our Loved Already site to a Blogger page. It will be much easier to maintain. We wanted a regular site to display all our different pages but we are getting to the point where it will mostly be just blogging from here on out. I'm glad because I like designing my own look and also I don't really like the Yahoo Web Hosting Blog format. It is rather a pain in the neck!
We are going for dinner tonight at the home of some people we know from the Ukrainian Slavic Full-Gospel church here in Knoxville! Vera is cooking up some Borscht and I don't know what else. I think I will bake some bread this afternoon to take along. I'm not sure what is expected according to Ukrainian culture when one goes visiting. Maybe Nataliya can give me a hint!!??
Check out this post on my sister-in-law's family blog! It is so funny!
Please remember our family, particularly the girls, in prayer. I mentioned a while back that Steve's Grandmother was failing. We are surprised that she is still with us but it is becoming clear that she won't hold out much longer. Annette is taking the thought of this very hard and Hannah will have a very difficult time too but she doesn't show it as much. Ivy, at two, doesn't really know much but was falling all over our little weeping Annette with hugs last night after Annette burst into tears on the phone with Great-Grandma.
We take great comfort in knowing that Grandma has been aching to go to Heaven for 10 years to be with her husband since he passed on. We'll see her again. We wish that our adopted kids could have met her.
7 comments:
Melissa, I hear you! I rewrote our packing lists many-many times and I'm still not done...
As for Ukrainian customs, you have to bring something with you when visiting. I can't speak for all parts of Ukraine, but in Odessa one would bring a dessert and a bottle of wine (vodka?). Home-made bread sounds very good, it's a very good idea. And if the hosts don't drink, you don't need to bring the alcohol :)
spaceeba!
I'm starting to join you as a packing worrier. I have not the foggiest idea what to take with us. When we adopted Q-ball, Punky and JacJac it was the middle of summer!!!! What to take...what to take...
Based on the amount of snow surrounding the snowman, did you roll all over the state of Tennessee to make him? :)
That was all that was left in our front yard after we made him!! I took the whole front yard (it's a big yard) and then the nest day he had flopped over and rolled down the hill! :-)
I think it is so cool you are adopting those kids.
The whole snowman story makes me laugh!
I truly wish our families had the opportunity to be together. I think we'd mesh so well!
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