Moore Family Adoption

Just reading through this nice new format on the blog, I realized I left out an important day or two I wanted to pass along.  After the 10 day wait for the court approval of the adoption, you have an opportunity to get the children.  There was some concern about my taking Samuel home to downtown Kiev.  I took this as a slight, which was kind of arrogant.  They were thinking of my best interests.  Having Samuel downtown in Kiev in the apartment was so difficult. He would not watch TV, nor play with toys, nor eat most of what we tried to feed him, and for entertainment, he would stare at the washing machine.  The days dragged on, until I called Igor and asked if Samuel could return to the orphanage for a few days.  Igor, always nice, said "no problem". But this is besides the point.  The day before our embassy appointment, we were running between a police station in Kiev and another government office, and a notary service at breakneck speed....

I just read the final chapter in the Haak blog, and it spurred me to write an update.  Yesterday was the ECAS picnic, but we could not attend.  We had some trouble with  Anya in the past week that was pretty challenging.  We've had to call in additional resources in addition to the therapist she sees once each week.  Earlier in the summer, when school ended, we anticipated trouble, so at the advice of our therapist, we enrolled Anya in the summer YMCA program, which is essentially daycare with activities, that gets her out of the house four days a week.  So we have a home daycare, and one of our kids goes to another daycare.  Odd but necessary. Her therapist is telling us that home is so comfortable, and so safe, that she is able to confront the ugly reality of her pre-adoption existence, and it comes out in defiance, and undermining behavior.  It gets pretty exhausting, mentally, as we spend a lot of time in prayer about this....