Yesterday ( A time of testing)!

First of all I want to thank you all for the wonderful comments, I won't mention you all but you know who you are. I was moved almost to tears as I read through them this am. The timing of these is really quite neat as yesterday did not fare out too well. We thought that all that was left on the paper work trail was a few notorizations to be added before we went to the judge. This ended up being a nightmare as we went all over trying to find a noteory that would do this. Let me say something now to bear in mind. Apparently we represent the first couple to Internationally adopt from this region, so I guess we are pioneers here in some respects. Thats all fine and well but I think this is why we are running into opposition, nobody wants to get involved as this is a new thing to them here. Anyway back yo yesterday, we eventually got the notorizing done and off we went to get everything in the judges hands before the day ended. By this time its getting late in the day. We got there finally to the courthouse and our translator went in which was supposed to take a few minutes so we thought. Two hours later out she came, she had tears in her eyes and looked exsausted. We had a sinking feeling and knew that it couldn't be good. The judge who is the main court judge put our translator through the 3rd degree on all our paperwork and furthermore informed her that the earliest we would get to court would be the 15th of Feb. This wasn't the news we needed after the events of the day. A silence fell over all of us and nobody spoke for a few moments as we tryed to digest what this would mean. At this point its all hands on deck to get the judge to move our court date up. We have hired a lawyer even though he didn't have much luck yesterday he assured us that he would be speaking with the judge again today. So for us things are a little up in the air for the present and we just have to wait and trust that it will all work out. Aside from a little panic we are remaining pretty calm and just need to really trust the Lord that its all in his care and not ours. The good news for the day is we will get to see Nastya . She has been having a rough time and we so want to be there for her right now. As I said in the title this is our time of testing and we must continue to trust and see the big picture. I want to espesially thank Keith for sharing their story of what happened during their addoption. I know you can truly relate to all that we are going through right now and knowing how it all worked out for you guys is so comforting to us right now. I don't know for the life of me why it has to be so difficult but that isn't for me to know I guess. As you say Keith no one said it would be easy here in Ukraine and that is so true. Anyway thats the update , hope to have more to say on things later today?? Take care , thank you for your prayers and support it means everything to us right now. Love, Randy and Debbie