Royal Day

Today is the Royal Wedding in England, but in the Ukraine we are having our own Royal Day!!!  We leave shortly to go to the orpanage for the very last time.  We will miss all the children that run up and give us hugs everyday or wait at the gate waving goodbye to us hoping maybe we would take them with us.  I wish we could take more, they are such wonderful children.  Yes, we will miss the wedding on T.V. but our celebration today will begin a lifetime of great memories for 2 special girls.  Our girls. We have their bags packed with clothes we have brought from America. I have tears in my eyes as I think, we don't have to take them back on Sunday this week.  That will be different.  We instead will be boarding a train Sat. night for an 11 hour ride to Kiev.  One week in Kiev to get passports and visas for the U.S. and on May 7 we will fly to Chicago to attend another daughters special day as she graduates from nursing school.  We are so proud of her, she has studied so hard and managed to keep her family in order while she has done so.  Quite an accomplishment.  So, our royal day today will be spent doing documents all day to take the girls home.  We will have a party for all their friends to say goodbye.  I'm sure many tears will be shed, they have many great friends here.  We are thankful for that, but sad we cannot take them all with us.  Off for our Royal Day, Thank You Lord for allowing us to be used of you to help a couple of orphans, who will no longer after 4p.m. today be orphans, but daughters, just like we are God's children. I am blessed.  Susan