Counting Down

Today I woke up and told Larry "Do you realize that now we can say we are leaving next Friday?" That sounds SO close and I feel SO overwhelmed with all that needs to be done before we leave! One step at a time. That's what I keep telling myself. Really I jumped on here to blog to assure you that we will be blogging daily from the moment we leave. When we adopted Oksana I blogged regularly and at the time I was doing it for all of our family and friends back home, but now I realize it was just as much for me. I can't tell you how often I need to know a date of something that happened in Ukraine for one reason or another and all I have to do is go back to my blog to see what day I wrote about that event. I also love to go back every few months and read those blogs again. I get to smile at the fun parts and be happy that the bad parts are now long behind us! All that said, I will be blogging as much as I can and I will also be posting my blog on Facebook. In other news, we got some updated information on Anya. She has had 3...yes 3 surgeries for her gastric reflux. I don't understand all of the terminology but I understand enough to know that the GI doc will be one of our first stops after we arrive home. The other first stop will be the cardiologist. I had our pediatrician review her file and she is not overly concerned about what she saw but we will need to have her heart checked out soon. On top of that we got new height and weight, fairly detailed info about her birth family, and my favorite part was that it said she can differentiate between strangers and people she knows. In the report we got when we committed to her it stated that she showed no understanding of strangers. The new information was very encouraging to me! OK I'm off to try to get something done today. In the middle of all of this we have some friends coming in town tomorrow night! My friend Karyn was one of my dearest friends in Little Rock. Her boys and my boys were inseparable but we haven't seen them in a few years since Karyn's husband got transferred to Omaha. We are excited for their visit!