Time Marches on :)

I cannot believe how fast time seems to go by. We spent two weeks in Connecticut. Mike had a training to go to and I snuck along. I really needed the break. We saw a good many of my family: Aunts and Uncles and cousins. It was a good time for me to reconnect, since we don't know when we will get the opportunity again. We came home to our boys who are on spring break. Our youngest had his wisdom teeth out on Monday and I began to think we will be doing some of this all over again and that was a good feeling for us, not the end of another thing. We have a campout this weekend with our Scout troop and soon we will have another child involved since ours are no longer in. We have been gathering papers and beginning renovations on the room we will be transforming into another bedroom. That has been exciting. Spring is coming in spurts now and my garden is going in. We are excited about the next few months. Please pray for us our hearts desire is to go to Ukraine the end of May through June. We still have funds to gather, we have most of our dossier paperwork together and we have begun the list of what to take. Our trip to Connecticut was a trial run for the what to take and we were able to live for two weeks out of one suitcase a piece :) and a small backpack each, plus my computer. We feel good about that. Our Scouting has really helped us prepare to travel light. We even had food and some cooking items with us, ie can opener, backpack utensils, and water bottles. We did realize we forgot some things like my cell phone charger :( and panty hose :) which I hate to wear anyway lol. I was able to do some more research for homeschooling our new son and getting reunited with educational materials. It has been 5 years since I homeschooled our youngest. I studied Ukrainian history and read some of the poetry from Ukraine's poets, while on our trip. We are STILL working on the Ukrainian alphabet I told Mike maybe if we turn it on and sleep with it going it will stick :)and his southern accent is still hilarious. We are working at rewriting our will and looking at our finances, which we are grateful God has been working on for us. He is so awesome in His plans for us. I am starting to get some anxiety about flying so please pray for that. We thank you all so much for praying for this young man we hope to adopt and for God's provision. We are so amazed how much of what we are doing is similar to when we were expecting our first two. We are now doing nesting things like getting the house ready, and preparing for his future. We are gathering clothing items as best we can, hoping to get some idea of possible sizes before we go. God is so awesome is all we keep saying as we look at another child who will be a miracle to us.