We leave the 16th!!

**Update- the nausea is definitely getting better! I think I needed a day to let that phenegran wear off! Thanks for your prayers, they're helping so much. A friend of mine is coming over today to help me get my house in a place where I feel like its decent again and I have an OB appointment today. Will let you know how it goes. :)**

We are booking our flights now, but our schedule is to leave Nashville at 8:45am. We have a layover in DC, then another in Germany. By 1:20pm on the 17th (their time) we will arrive in Kiev!!!

I can't even believe we are leaving a week from Saturday!!! It blows my mind.

If you would, please pray for us. Abby, Ashley and I have each had a little run with a funky stomach bug (actually I got it twice I think). Ugh. Right now, I'm able to keep food and liquid down, but it took two doses of phenegran yesterday to keep anything down. And now I don't really feel nauseated, but my head hurts, my ears are stopped up and I'm kind of dizzy. Which I'm assuming are all left over side affects from the phenegran. I'm back on Zofran right now though, so hopefully these funky effects will wear off and I will remain nausea free. :)

There is SO much that needs to be done around this house to get ready for us being gone for three weeks. I REALLY need the energy to get it all done. The excitement of our first trip (and of MEETING Pavel for the first time), the stress of getting my house in order, the stress of finances (we do still have $4,000 left to raise), and the hormones of pregnancy are all trying to get the better of me. Jake has been amazing and so helpful but he has a lot on his plate as well.

The countdown is on: we leave in 10 DAYS!!!