My last post was about Lydia saying "do svidaniya" to detsky sad (her Russian kindergarten), since it is her last year there.
Now we are saying a lot more "do svidaniyas."
Do svidaniya St. Petersburg.
For now, at least. Maybe forever, but we hope not.
I've been dragging my feet about writing this post, because I didn't really want to face it, and because I've been busy packing up all our stuff. We had been planning to just leave St. Petersburg for the summer, but last week we suddenly decided that when we leave, it needs to be for probably a year. Why? Because adopting our little "Camden" was becoming way too complicated to do while living in Russia. After investigating lots of possibilities and searching out lots of information, we realized it would basically be impossible. So, we have to return to the US for a while and do the whole adoption process from there. This decision started a flurry of packing, getting rid of things, figuring out what to do with our apartment, our furniture. Saying goodbye. The whole idea is, of course, bittersweet. We hope we can come back in a year, and that is our plan, but only God knows our future. We have to lay down our desires and dreams, and place the future in His hands. The good thing is that we think all these changes God is asking of us will bring this boy into our future...
And will give him the future God has planned for him!
So today we said goodbye to our church friends here, and this week will hold goodbyes to the colleagues in our organization, the families at the school where Aaron teaches...
And on Friday, it will be hello USA, and lots of hugs for Grandma & Poppaw!
Now we are saying a lot more "do svidaniyas."
Do svidaniya St. Petersburg.
For now, at least. Maybe forever, but we hope not.
I've been dragging my feet about writing this post, because I didn't really want to face it, and because I've been busy packing up all our stuff. We had been planning to just leave St. Petersburg for the summer, but last week we suddenly decided that when we leave, it needs to be for probably a year. Why? Because adopting our little "Camden" was becoming way too complicated to do while living in Russia. After investigating lots of possibilities and searching out lots of information, we realized it would basically be impossible. So, we have to return to the US for a while and do the whole adoption process from there. This decision started a flurry of packing, getting rid of things, figuring out what to do with our apartment, our furniture. Saying goodbye. The whole idea is, of course, bittersweet. We hope we can come back in a year, and that is our plan, but only God knows our future. We have to lay down our desires and dreams, and place the future in His hands. The good thing is that we think all these changes God is asking of us will bring this boy into our future...
So today we said goodbye to our church friends here, and this week will hold goodbyes to the colleagues in our organization, the families at the school where Aaron teaches...
And on Friday, it will be hello USA, and lots of hugs for Grandma & Poppaw!
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