First Christmas in a Family

My last post was pretty negative and it was a bad day/week/month. Everything I said is true and frustrating, but I think the spirit of the season is helping us to see the wonder that our new boys are experiencing. Evidently Christmas is not the same in Ukraine. It sounds like New Years is a bigger celebration and the the holiday lasts for a couple of weeks. One more chance for Ukrainians to get drunk :)

Spencer and Vitaly are so excited for Christmas. They are happy that school is almost over this year and that they get so many presents and they keep looking at the gifts and restacking them etc. They love the treats and the fun of Christmas. Vitaly has been on extra good behavior (at home) and hugs us more and says he loves us A LOT more. I hope it is permanant and not a ploy to get more presents :)

We are excited to get to talk to our Missionary, Bryan who is serving in Ukraine. He says that we get to talk for 3 hours. He has a pretty lenient mission president. (Tyler could only talk for 45 minutes.) If you know Bryan, you will wonder how we will ever talk for 3 hours. It will be fun to have him and the new boys speak some Ukrainian and I will be smiling for days just hearing his voice. He is doing well and was just transferred from Kiev to a remote area in Western Ukraine.

We are in the midst of concert season. The kids have concerts almost every day and between singing as a family and attending each of their events we are a singing bunch. The weather outside is frightful but at least our voices are warmed up.

We hope everyone has a fabulous Holiday.
Christy