News Is Good News

Being as busy and always on the go as I am, I am thankful for reminders so that I don't let things fall through the cracks.  We got a reminder letter from the Ukranian embassy here in the states to send in our annual report on the kids.  When you adopt from Ukraine the embassy here wants you to send a report on how your adopted kids are doing up until they reach the age of 18.

I had to laugh when I got the letter because I had totally forgotten about this.  Not so much as that I just had forgotten about it (which I had, hey I'm A GUY, I'll never remember something a year in advance....), but more so because as I thought about it, I don't really think of K & M as being our adopted kids.  They're just our kids.  Honestly, I would have to put some real thought into what life was like before they got here.

We still get a lot of comments and observations on how well they're doing and fitting in, and those would probably be understatements of how well it's gone.  They fit into our family so well, jumped into their new family and melded in like butter on hot toast, and have been a true joy and blessing to our family.  To us all it just seems natural like they've always been here!

That's one of the big reasons I keep on blogging now.  It's an amazingly wonderful adoption story.  A great success story.  A huge blessing.  And we don't hear enough of these.  People and media and all will greatly tend to highlight all the negative stories, all the adoption horror stories (and to be fair, there are more than enough of those!).  BUT, there are also great stories like ours, where orphans and families are brought together and lives are changed for the better.  Those should be heard as well.

I am very much looking forward to sharing our story with the embassy so that they may know that these two kids are 6092 miles away from where we found them, but they are now HOME :)