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Our adoption story about two kids from Ukraine.
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Current adoption status
We adopted Valentina, who is now 30, and Sergey, who is now 29. At the time, they were 14 and 13.
We had our SDA appointment on Thanksgiving Day 2008, and departed Ukraine on Valentine's Day 2009.
To read our adoption story, see the posts from Nov. 2008 through Feb. 2009.
We had our SDA appointment on Thanksgiving Day 2008, and departed Ukraine on Valentine's Day 2009.
To read our adoption story, see the posts from Nov. 2008 through Feb. 2009.
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3 comments:
to my wonderful husband - I had no idea you were going to put that brithday picture on the blog! Now we should put yours on tomorrow as we celebrate YOUR birthday! I love you more than you will ever know.
Thanks sweetie just wait till Mother's Day!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NANCY!! AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, TOO, ALAN! May you have many many more wonderful birthdays and may you not have to spend another one without your two children that are waiting in Ukraine for you.
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