I am going to start out with the best news....we are coming home. Well...not for a few days, but soon. Thanks to the tireless work by my sister in law Allyson and her friend Anne in Calgary we are booked to come home on Sunday Nov 19th!!! Thanks so much to Anne for finding us a great deal and not paying through the nose for the kids flights....and to Ally for running around like a crazed woman getting everything together!!!

We arrive in Winnipeg at 3:48 p.m. Sorry guys there will be no Grey Cup party at our house this year!!!

For the next good news our friends B & S from Winnipeg who are also in Ukraine adopting two children are coming to Lugansk tomorrow for noon and are spending the night. We are so looking forward to seeing them!!!!! There is going to be a party in Lugansk tomorrow night!!!

We have now completed day 3 of our 10 day wait. We had a cold weekend, but it warmed up a bit today. We visited the kids twice on Saturday and Sunday and went there for 4 to 6 as usual. We told them that we would not be coming to see them tomorrow as B & S are here....we did not tell them that's way though. They seemed to be OK with it....We gave them an extra treat (we always give them one when we leave everyday) and told them it was for tomorrow. Wonder if they saved one for tomorrow????

We went out for salad/soup and pop with P & P from Colorado. I know I have said it 1,000,000 times, but I can not express how blessed we are to have made friends with another couple from North America in our orphanage!!