Monday, May 12, 2008

Good bye Katherine ...


Today was a very sad day. Katherine returned to Moldova. Her time here as a student has ended and she had to return home. She will be missed terribly. Our family has come to think of her as another daughter. I'm so happy that we had the time with her that we had. Her contract for her scholarship said she must return to Moldova and cannot come back to the US for 2 years. We will be counting the days.

Right now our plans are to travel there next summer, me and my girls. Our church does a mission trip to the Ukraine every summer and I'm hoping we can make that trip and visit Katherine while we're there, since they are so close.

I know that her family will be so glad to have her home, but right now we are missing her.

Much love to you, our sweet Katherine. We'll talk with you soon.


Kathy

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Happy Mother's Day






Today has been a wonderful Mother's Day. But I'll start with yesterday. I graduated from college yesterday. I will post pictures. I finally finished my finance degree. I now have a BSBF, that is Bachelor of Science in Business Finance. Sounds awfully official. The best was having the whole family there. Jon, Sarah and I headed up Friday afternoon after work. Almira stayed with Mom and Dad because they have Katherine for just a few more days. We wanted the girls to have one last sleep over together. Katherine is flying back to Moldova on Monday and we are all terribly sad.

My brother, Doug drove up in his suburban and brought Mom, Dad, Katherine and Almira on Saturday morning. After graduation we went and ate at the Flying Fish, a great restaurant in Little Rock. We really wanted something nicer (or I did), but nothing was serving dinner at 4PM on Saturday. The Flying Fish is a dive, but with great food. The picture with Almira holding something was her first attempt at eating raw oysters. Katherine loves them and fixed her one. It barely got down, I think.

The last picture is of all my girls together for Mother's Day lunch. We had a really good time and Katherine is still here playing with Sarah and Almira.
Well enough with all that, here are the pictures.
Enjoy.
Kathy
P. S. Did you notice the name change, I decided since Almira has been home almost one year (June 1st) it was time to change the name from an adoption blog to the chronicles. Since I am out of school I will try to do better updating my blog. Sometimes I think I'm the only one to read it and I just enjoy journaling.