April 13th

Hi everyone~ Thanks for your prayers and gathering up the prayers of others! The city council here did meet and cleared everything up on that end, so that we are back to the normal process now. The next step is to wait on a court date and while we are waiting we have been graciously invited back to Kiev to Dr. Jim and Marianna's for a few days. I cannot tell you how AWESOME and a God send this couple has been for us. Their main ministry here is a medical outreach, but they have been a huge support to so many adoptive couples here. Marianna is so energetic, creative, and they have so much wisdom. When we have been to their house even just for dinner, she always greets at the door with a "Welcome Home" and it is always just what we needed. We are not staying in the main part of the region, but in a small town. There are about 2 Ukrainian eating places that we have found and not really a decent supermarket for us to get food...just bottled water and crackers/cookies/fruit. Although, we didnt want to face the drive back, we felt that it would be best to go back to a bigger area and "refuel" and stock up on anything we may need. We are going over our time frame left in this process and taking into considerations that the U.S Embassy here (this is part of our process)will be taking holidays the last week of April/beginning of May. There are many decisions to be made and we ask that you keep this in prayer. We miss you all and love that we can communicate back and forth in this way!
Mel
P.S. Love the new pic of the Flahive's on the guestbook...one of the nights that I was sick, I opened up the blog and there was your new pic and it brought much cheer!!