Monday, 14 May Sunday and Monday pretty much ran together….It’s Monday evening in Kiev as I draft this, and Mark and I are both running on about an hour and a half of sleep since yesterday morning. Around 11:00 on Sunday morning, the Maxwell clan stopped by to see us off, and Mark’s parents came about 11:15 to take us to the airport. After many pictures, the guys piled all the luggage into the car, and we were off! We arrived at the Fort Wayne airport a little more than an hour before our flight, checked our bags, and breezed […]

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People often hear about celebrities adopting foreign children, and it seems like they swoop into a country, see a child, take them home, and that’s that…There is actually much more to the story than that, despite media portrayals. For those who have never experienced adoption firsthand, it seems like an infinite stream of papers and approvals and corrections and re-approvals. Each new document feels like a new obstacle, but it helps to understand that many of these requirements are intended to protect the children. The Homestudy(Began 30 August, completed 23 September) Any adoption, domestic or foreign, requires that a social […]

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