Praying for Good News!
Monday, May 29
On Monday at 2:30 we had our preliminary court date. This is a new concept to us because we have not heard of one before. Marina explained that Timertau does this sometimes and we can expect to get an actual court date 3-4 days afterwards. We were a bit disappointed by this news but were praying for favor and that we could perhaps get a Tuesday court date. The preliminary court date involves only the judge, our lawyer, the social worker and a representative from the orphanage. We are not invited to attend which is a little weird to us but hey this has been a whole new adventure in the unusual and different. Many times different is good. It gives you an appreciation for what you have and other people. This was by far the worst day of our trip. This was the last thing we expected and we experienced a new level of low. Let’s just say Garrett and I were really bummed out!!!
On Monday evening Marina, our coordinator here, called us to tell us she had bad news for us. Our court date was set for Thursday, June 6th which would be day 31 in the process. Our court date should have been day 21 or there abouts. This was shocking to us and Marina. This puts us a full week behind schedule which we know is a flexible schedule but we were hoping to be close to our target date of June 20. I was the one that answered the phone and when she told me the date I said ok and she said no it’s not ok, this is not acceptable. I must say it brings me great comfort when you hear news that you think is bad and the people telling you are devastated also. We like her very much. She told us something very hopeful to us though. She said the Director of Sasha and Stella’s orphanage was going on Tuesday to visit the judge to see if she could convince him to move the day up. That sounds real good to us.
We spent the day around the apartment except for a visit to the red market. It is the smaller of the two and they have little shops upstairs like toiletries, linens, toys, YES TOYS, and office supplies. We came home with groceries, hubba-bubba which they call who ba - boo ba, some chocolate, a bow and arrow suction cup thing and an imitation Barbie named Barbra! Coincidence...I think not! As you can imagine it was a pretty successful trip as far as the kids were concerned. Alona came at 3:30 for English lessons and after dinner we had a little Mr. Bean! The kids were happy and Garrett and I were feeling pretty lousy but hoping for favor with the judge tomorrow.
On Monday at 2:30 we had our preliminary court date. This is a new concept to us because we have not heard of one before. Marina explained that Timertau does this sometimes and we can expect to get an actual court date 3-4 days afterwards. We were a bit disappointed by this news but were praying for favor and that we could perhaps get a Tuesday court date. The preliminary court date involves only the judge, our lawyer, the social worker and a representative from the orphanage. We are not invited to attend which is a little weird to us but hey this has been a whole new adventure in the unusual and different. Many times different is good. It gives you an appreciation for what you have and other people. This was by far the worst day of our trip. This was the last thing we expected and we experienced a new level of low. Let’s just say Garrett and I were really bummed out!!!
On Monday evening Marina, our coordinator here, called us to tell us she had bad news for us. Our court date was set for Thursday, June 6th which would be day 31 in the process. Our court date should have been day 21 or there abouts. This was shocking to us and Marina. This puts us a full week behind schedule which we know is a flexible schedule but we were hoping to be close to our target date of June 20. I was the one that answered the phone and when she told me the date I said ok and she said no it’s not ok, this is not acceptable. I must say it brings me great comfort when you hear news that you think is bad and the people telling you are devastated also. We like her very much. She told us something very hopeful to us though. She said the Director of Sasha and Stella’s orphanage was going on Tuesday to visit the judge to see if she could convince him to move the day up. That sounds real good to us.
We spent the day around the apartment except for a visit to the red market. It is the smaller of the two and they have little shops upstairs like toiletries, linens, toys, YES TOYS, and office supplies. We came home with groceries, hubba-bubba which they call who ba - boo ba, some chocolate, a bow and arrow suction cup thing and an imitation Barbie named Barbra! Coincidence...I think not! As you can imagine it was a pretty successful trip as far as the kids were concerned. Alona came at 3:30 for English lessons and after dinner we had a little Mr. Bean! The kids were happy and Garrett and I were feeling pretty lousy but hoping for favor with the judge tomorrow.
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