My awesome friend Lyndi adopted her son, Patrick, from Ukraine pretty much the same time we did. For those who already know this story, you can skip to the next paragraph. :) We would sit once a week in a RR chat room and talk about all things Ukrainian special needs adoption. :) Specific, I know, but that's why we needed each other!!! (Ok, ok, sometimes we talked about completely random things that had nothing to do with adoption AT ALL. :)) But at some point I realize, one of the people in this room is from Tennessee. "Thats cool" I thought. Then I find out Murphreesboro. "Holy Moly thats right down the road!!!" Whoo hoo!!! So Lyndi and I met, and we don't see each other a TON but we get together as much as we can. We do have 11 (almost 12) kids between the two of us! But we "had" Micah and Patrick at the same time, I like to say. :)
Anyway, being the amazing mom, RR volunteer coordinator, and general adoption advocate that she is, she's going back. :) She's adopting Fedia. You can read about that -------> *HERE*. :) And Patrick is coming to stay with us while she's gone!
She's already made her first trip. And Patrick stayed with our friend Meredith the first time around, and I secretly wanted to get to watch him then but since Jake was out of the country and I had a CRAAAZY week anyway, that was for the best. But this time, I'm thrilled to be spending sometime with our little Ukrainian buddy! :) Though I might go peek back through Mer's archives to get some pointers, lol. :)
Anyway, I KNOW Micah is gonna have so much fun with his new roommate. Actually, I'm sure that all the kids will have fun with him around.
A lot of times people ask me, "What do you think it would be like if Oleg had come home?" Well, folks, I think I'm about to find out!!!
awww you are so lucky! well and they are so lucky to have you to watch patrick!! you will all have so much fun!!!
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