This is our last blog from Ukraine. We will continue to blog as our journey transitions from pre-adoption, to our adoption trip in Ukraine, and now our post-adoption life back home in Texas. In so many ways, leaving Ukraine will mark the real beginning of our journey for our family as we assimilate our two new children into our "normal" daily life. As I said in the blog with the martial arts black belt analogy, tomorrows flight home will be the end of the beginning for our family!
It is such a great feeling to be done with all the paperwork, orphanages, notaries, social workers, potential roadblocks and concerns, and to just sit here holding two passports with immigrant visas for Kayleigh Mariya and Michael Andrew Tansey to enter the United States of America as our children, and walk out of customs with that magic stamp in their passport that will officially make them American citizens (dual citizenship actually). Walking off of United flight 1054 in the San Antonio airport will truly be a magificent moment for our family. Praise and glory to God!
We have been incredibly blessed, loved and supported in our adoption journey by so many people and will probably never be able to thank everyone enough. Our decision to pursue adoption of Masha & Andriy in late July 2011 has now culminated in our 46 day adventure here in Ukraine, and we will come home with an treasure of memories, stories, friends, and two teenagers! We cannot wait to get home and share!
Signing off now from Kyiv, Ukraine with love.
Chris, Jodi, Bekah, Alyssa, Kayleigh, Dylan and Michael Tansey
Welcome to our blog! We are so excited that you would take the time to follow our adoption journey! Thanks for coming along for the ride as our adoption of Kayleigh and Michael was completed in May 2012 and as we embrace our new world of parenting five teenagers!
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