One Year Ago today it was "International Woman's Day" and we were leaving Russia after seeing, meeting, and accepting our referral. It truly was a bitter sweet day, because on the one hand you have a sense of relief, that you have accomplished another task to bring you closer to realizing your dream...the dream of adopting this baby boy. On the other hand, you have to leave this precious baby boy back in Russia and honestly unless you have been through it, it truly is the most agonizing thing we have ever been through in our entire lives! Metaphorically, I tell everyone it's the same as having your heart ripped out and literally left in Russia and/or Azerbaijan. And I do say that YES it is that horrible of an experience!
Our facilitator, Irina, told us that we would return soon enough and you know we believed her :) You may think that these are just merely "words" she tells every PAP but Irina is extremely sincere in her demeanor and I, for one, and still do to this day, believed her because she was absolutely CORRECT!
Because it was "International Women's Day," which is extremely similar to the U.S. version of Mother's Day (which incidentally we traveled for our court date in May 2008 and it fell directly on Mother's Day, we did spend this day in an airplane and we truly did not celebrate it but Lukie is SO worth it!), so Ron went to our hotel's flower shop, at the Hyundai Hotel, and bought Irina flowers, because she deserves them and in our minds a lot more! Before Irina took us to the airport, we made a pit stop at Lukie's baby hospital to give our Goodbyes. I'm not so sure this was such a wonderful idea?! I SO wanted to scoop up our baby boy and bring him home with us, who cares that he didn't have the proper paper work, after all I was a Mommy in agony, surely the Russian Gov. would understand!? I just kept repeating to Luke "we will be back," I think this was more for me than him :/
Here are some photos of just how much Lukie has changed from that very first week back in March 2008 to now :)
Love & HUGS,
Jenny, Ron, Ryan & Lukie :)
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