Quiet Day

Picture: Kevin and milk in a bag

It is so weird to think that it is 8pm here but my children are still in Sunday morning church service at home! Hopefully by next week we can find a church to go to. There is a tiny little church-looking building across the street with the beautiful gold-colored rounded roofs that rise to a tall peak with ornate crosses on top that make me think it's an orthodox church of some sort but it looks like 8 people would hardly fit in it. My body still has not adjusted to the time change either, I guess. After sleeping 14 hours yesterday I wasn't sleepy at bedtime and stayed up for hours reading this archeological fiction book I brought with me, then slept several hours, then read more, then slept more and got up at 2:00 pm again. It gets dark about 5 pm so my weird sleeping schedule makes for very few hours of daylight.

BUT we found out that we need to meet our driver at 7 am in the morning for an 8 am appt, I guess with the orphanage director. So it looks like we finally will get to meet our son! I'm told that after this our fees include two trips per week to the orphanage and that we are responsible to hire a driver ourselves for other visits.

I have been trying to get caught up on reading all my emails. I got majorly behind in the last week or so before travel trying to get so many loose ends tied up. So please, I hope no one thought I was rude for not replying to any comments or well-wishes concerning our trip--I am just now seeing them. (I had 5 PAGES of emails including RR digests when I got here!) I know I was so glued to my computer when other people were traveling--and it touches me deeply to read how you guys are following the journeys of all of us here in Ukraine.

Interesting-to-me Tidbits of information:

We bought milk that says it is 2.5% but it is so creamy it reminds me of the milk we used to get from my grandpa's farm.

I have not seen ANY bugs, spiders -- only animal I've seen so far was a cat outside our apartment. And I've only seen about 3 children (though, maybe children here don't enjoy shopping any more than my own kiddos :)

I was noticing last night I hadn't heard anyone swearing--then remembered I wouldn't know the difference! However there was sufficient bad language on the English channel tonight to more than make up for it--stuff that would have either not been allowed or would have at least been 'bleeped' at home. Kevin was snoring through it so I just turned it off.

Someone actually stopped us on the street this evening and asked us a question--of course, we didn't know what she was saying but it made me think that maybe the fact we are Americans wasn't as outwardly obvious as I thought.

Should have a lot more to report tomorrow. Thanks for all your love and prayers.