tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-680540413064562846.post639288335672850612..comments2023-09-21T02:53:19.116-06:00Comments on Schaffer's Ukraine Adoption: We are in KievThe Schaffer Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05343082091555020333noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-680540413064562846.post-12764226118905279122007-08-12T15:04:00.000-06:002007-08-12T15:04:00.000-06:00Best wishes for your appointment tomorrow. It can...Best wishes for your appointment tomorrow. It can be a little overwhelming. We pray you'll find your children on your first visit, too! The SDA is nothing like we imagined it would be. You wait outside in the crowded courtyard, then go up a stark stairway into a small shared office and sit on a vinyl couch with the officials and translator sitting in chairs across from you. People were in and out all through our meeting, which lasted about 1/2 hour or so. Without much adue, they will then show you however many files of various children they have selected for you. We were shown several, but only one was even remotely healthy enough for us to even consider. This is also the first one they showed us and also the one they told us the most about right up front. I believe they, too, knew that even though there were several profiles, there was only one real option for us. Let me tell you, it was also WAY out of the realm of what we were expecting. Prior to visiting the SDA, we had no intention of adopting 2 boys or adopting a toddler. But guess what? We got both!! Oh, and not all the information we were given by the SDA was accurate, either. Our youngest son's birth date was 6 months off (he's younger than we were told) and there was quite a bit about their both their health we didn't learn until after we'd already been to court. But, life is what it is and we KNOW these are our boys...and the children we were sent to adopt. We weren't sure until after we'd met both of them, but our daughter, who was at the SDA with us knew immediately that these were her brothers.Dianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08444891084585965661noreply@blogger.com