24 hours

Well yesterday Vitalik left to go back to Ukraine. He has been gone from our family for 24 hours. We are all super sad around here. Yesterday was one of the worst days I have ever experienced. We were emotionally and physically drained when we went to bed last night. We went to bed one child missing and woke up this morning with one child missing. As I was fixing waffles this morning for Hannah and Tripp I felt myself tear up because I wasn't fixing 7 waffles (V always ate 4!!) :( The process can't go by fast enough so we can go to Ukraine for our adoption appointment. I'm praying God helps us raise the money quickly and that we will have patience through this process. When you a love a child and then they have to go away it's the hardest thing ever! BUT I do realize that this short time will be nothing compared to when he can move here forever. V reminded us of that when he said, " ME school mini-time and American BIG time" haha. We have already talked to him a couple times since he left. He called 2 times yesterday. His phone no longer will work overseas but we got a FaceTime from him this morning when we first got up! One of his good friends got an Ipod touch for Christmas and he borrowed it just to FaceTime us. (They were in the airport with wi-fi) I can really tell he misses us. When he gets to check his VK account (European facebook) he will REALLY realize we miss him. We have sent him several messages in the past 24 hours. We have to be able to communicate with him every second we can, so I hope he can get his phone working with a Ukraine SIM card. If not we will ship an IPOD touch to him so he can FaceTime us. He is only allowed to get on the computer a certain amount of time at school. Sometimes only 2-3 times a week; that is not OK with this mama. He doesn’t have wi-fi at his school but he told me there is a restaurant next to his school that has wi-fi that they link up too. Funny how technology is worldwide! His orphanage is in the middle of a big city so he has access to wi-fi other places that are close by. I hope he is ok, because it will take a while for us to be. I keep reminding myself that this is in God's hands and it WILL happen. I'm going to paste the link to make donations here. We have only raised $200 dollars. We have a long way to go! We will be selling shirts, having cookouts and a golf tournament soon! Thanks for the prayers and support!!! We appreciate it! Love, Kendall and Jerry http://www.youcaring.com/adoption-fundraiser/Bringing-Vitalik-home-to-America-/39023