Our first outing to McDonalds. Andri got the "Heppy" meal. Later we almost "lost our lunch" on the ride below that they talked me into! Afterwards the kids watched a woman make the cotton candy, and had fun eating it. See the rest of the day below. We picked the kids up a little after 10am, and dropped them off at 6:30pm.
It was fun for the kids and Chris, and a little loud and showy for me. But it had a lot of young people on fire for our Lord, which is great. It was also 2.5 hours from start to when we left! Jonathan did Sunday School in Russian with Natasha & Andri, and he was given an interpreter which helped.
They will have a woman's conference this week that Katya and I would love to go to, with English Speakers, and Russian interpretation, however it's just too hard with Chris traveling, and then we might need to run around on Wednesday, applying for passports, and such.
After church we took the kids to our first McDonald's trip, and that was fun after a lot of walking, bus & metro rides. Then we went to our little church up the hill (the exact opposite type of Hillsong!). But after church they always have coffee, tea and juice, cake and cookies. Jonathan played his 50 year old friend "Sergey" in Chess, and the kids talked with other Russian children there who had "English" parents as well. If we are unable to return on the 7th, we were invited to their "farm" so we will see. It's all one day at a time now.
There is a "slight", very "slight" chance we could get our tax ID numbers on Wed, and then apply for passports, then get physicals..then get the exit visas (all by May 7)...so it's all very tight and will literally take a miracle, as Monday & Tuesday are holidays here. Keep praying!
After all the churches, we decided to stop at that amusement park one more time, and do 1 ride, and get cotton candy before returning back to their home. I took Andri shopping today, as I had the other children one on one. He picked a toy like lego's and decided to let me take it home to Kiev so he could play with it tomorrow. It took him a little while to decide, whether to share it an leave it at the orphanage, or keep it in Kiev.
Jonathan, has a big tooth pushing out his other tooth, and it is painful. He already lost a tooth last month, and you know about his chipped teeth. I am afraid his tooth today that is hurting him is infected, as he is feeling cold, etc. Keep him in your prayers please. We were able to get him to take a pain killer, not an easy task for any of my children.
We are doing well with the kids, having fun, trying not to spend too much money. Tomorrow Chris leaves for Germany for 2 days, so I am having all the kids stay here in our Kiev apartment. If the nice weather holds out, we want to go to the beach tomorrow and have the kids play in the sand, and just relax for a couple hours. It's a new place for the kids and I on the metro, so it should be interesting to see if we can figure things out!
THANKS for all your prayers! We look forward to His care in our lives this week! Love Alesia & Chris
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