A Christmas Filled With Much Joy

We are absolutely in love with the child we are hosting and plan to adopt. He is adorable, friendly, intelligent, polite, humorous and a joy to be around. My husband and I both agree that this is the best Christmas we can remember. We do not have children, so the addition of this child to our holiday season has brought us and our extended famiy much joy.

We have also received confirmation that our appointment with the Ukraine National Adoption Centerr is set for mid-January (barring any disruption from current changeover to the new ministry). We began the paperwork process on September 18th, just after deciding to host a child for Christmas. Once we determined the specific child we would be hosting we also decided we would apply to adopt him and so we were determined that when he left our home at the end of the hosting period he would know the date on which we would come to Ukraine to make him an official family member and bring him home. Due to our fabulous team (stateside paperwork specialist and Ukraine based Independent Facilitator) we will arrive in Kiev just 4 months after starting the process! In the world of International Adoption, that is unbelievably fast. However, our team is incredibly good!

The Frontier Horizon travel program (www.frontierhorizon.org), Tonya of Adption Paperwork Simplified (tmb_aps@yahoo.com) and "Team Oleg" in Ukraine (ukradoption@yahoo.com) have assisted us in finding "our son" who we know will (and already has) change our life for the better and brings us a joy previously unimaginable.

God has surely blessed us. May God Bless you and your family in this upcoming new year.

Sincerely from our home to yours,

Cynthia Rennolds and Randy Smith