We called and talked to Kristine yesterday. Once again Olegs wasn’t available (or at least that’s what Kristine said anyway). Whenever we want to talk to Olegs it seems like she always puts her friend Agnese on the phone instead and reminds us how Agnese needs a family too. We always love talking to Agnese and we tell Kristine that we’re praying for Agnese to find a family. We’re really hoping that someone will be able to host Agnese and her younger sister at Christmas. Maybe it might lead to her adoption. Who knows? I know it will be hard for Kristine to leave her friends when she comes to live with us. We’ll just have to do our best to help her keep in touch by writing and calling.
We told Kristine that we would be coming to Riga for our court date on October 9th and she said she already knew, of course. It’s funny how news travels so fast. We got to talk to Olegs today since we didn’t get him yesterday. He had also heard about us coming. This time when we called, we only asked to speak with him. It was funny…when we called, our friend Ilga just happened to answer the phone at the children’s home. She was there meeting with the children’s home director (also named Ilga). The director got busy so Ilga answered her phone for her. Before I knew it was Ilga, I said my usual “Labdien, Olegs Ludzu” and she said “Who is this?” It freaked us out at first because we didn’t expect the person on the other end to speak English. Then she told us it was her and we had a good chat. We haven’t spoken to her since she went back to Latvia, only through emails.
The timing was perfect in talking to Ilga because she had a couple of questions for us about the type of flat we will need for our stay there. She’s helping us locate a place to stay while we’re there. We’ll have both children staying with us and a court social worker will be making visits so it needs to be an acceptable place to the court.
We got a decent deal on plane tickets last week. The airfare was just under $2,000 for both of us which is good believe it or not. Ilga is having the court check out a place she’s picked out for us to stay so that should be confirmed soon too. Things are falling into place. We still have many things to get worked out before we travel though…very important things like how do I make sure my hair dryer and curling iron will work in Latvia? LOL! I’ll probably end up buying new ones in Latvia so they’ll be compatible. That’s just one of the million items on my list! Then there are more important things like figuring out who we should take gifts to. Of course, we feel we should give something to the children’s home director and her staff. Plus, we want to bring some games and candy for the rest of the children there too. We’ve gotten some advice from other adoptive parents based on what they gave as gifts so we’ll be working on our gift list.
Time seems like it’s moving like a freight train these days. It’s starting to hit us that we’re leaving two weeks from Friday. YIKES!!
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