Today we went to visit all the children at the orphanage again. K spent the night with us, so her director picked us up around 1:00pm & we spent the rest of the day with the kids. We began this trip with open hearts & today, made a pretty difficult decision regarding this. When we started our journey, we were not prepared to be "approved for 3", but our American social worker put that on our Home Study...so, we were open to one more. K was also very excited about this possibility....until today. After spending the day together with K & her house-mate, K decided that she no longer wanted this. Since she has a 9 year old half-brother (who lives with his bio father), she remembered her dream of wanting a 6 year old brother (this was the last time the two of them were together, so she remembers him at this age). She no longer wants us to adopt a sister for her. This is ok. We are very sad about this (especially R, who has grown really fond of N), but we are glad to know this early in the Ukrainian process of adoption. Although, now, I will be on a mission to find a family for the other 13 year old girl that we had been considering.
Tomorrow, we will meet with our local translator, who will work with us through the remainder of the process in this region, then meet with the Inspector (social worker), who will accompany us to the orphanage to view our meeting with K (tomorrow is our "official" first meeting since she returned to Ukraine).
Tonight, we will spend the evening together & she is happy because she gets to skip school tomorrow. So, gotta go so we can do some reassuring. Until tomorrow.
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