The Divine Architect at His best again!

The last couple of days have been unpredictable to say the least. On one day we drove to Moline which is where the girls are from. The purpose of the trip was to persuade the local region officials to support our petition of adoption.

To give insight on the process:
The local (where we are) officials must support the adoption as they are the current guardians of the girls. In order to do this, the orphanage director and elder siblings must also support. Next, the regional officials from the area in which the girls were born, must also support. In this case, the region where the girls are from is so small, the officials are not familiar with the international adoption process. For this reason, they initially declined to entertain the petition. (ignore it) However, our facilitator suggested we jump in the car and show up unexpectedly to provide faces to the story. We did. This resulted in a regional commission to be formed and a meeting to be forced that day to question our intent. (similar to a court hearing) While we were asked only a couple of questions, (I am sure it was because our facilitator set the stage appropriately), the questions posed were legite. Do we have bio children? Were we prepared for lifelong challenges should Katya not be medically cured? In the end, we were told we were noble people for coming across the world to adopt needy children whom no relatives were willing to support. It was a wonderful experience to see the vote as unanimous in our favor and witness the appearance that the commission voted on the best interest of the girls! We parted with many Thank yous and God Blessings!

Now for Nikolas: