Tuesday July 28...Hard day

Hello everyone,
I guess I will do the blog today since neither of us feels up to it. So bear with me if it is not upbeat as usual. Jeff is having a really rough day and has already laid down for the evening...he said he was not tired but he isnt talking much.
We are having some long days. Not so much in hours as in stress levels. There have recently been some changes to the laws and there are requests for paperwork that we are trying to obtain in order to get a court date. There are several families over here right now and one had already gone to court and was on thier 10th day and 23rd hour after court and ready to leave for home when the adoption was protested by the prosecutor, plus the other 2 couples that had court date for Thurs and Friday of this week were cancelled and they will give no more court dates until we meet these requirements. Galya, Oksanna and SDA are all trying to figure it out but it seems like a dead end everywhere we turn. The other 3 families are leaving this week but they have a different facilitator who has advised them to do this. With hopes of coming back in the next 20 days or so. The word is SDA will have a plan by Friday so at that time we will decide who is coming home or if there will be a quick court date since our 10 days before court will be already served. I just dont know...
Then to make a bad day worse....we had to tell Madison's sister this morning our decision about her adoption. We wanted to do it away from Madison but by the time we got done at the court house she was already with Madison at the orphanage. We know it was the right decision but it is so hard to disappoint and hurt children who have had a lifetime of disappointment. Madison cried and that was heart wrenching to us. She just laid her little head on her sisters back and they cried and we cried and nothing we said right then sounded like a good enough excuse to hurt these children. Again we were and are at peace with our decision it was still hard and depressing. So now that we have brought everyone down I will sign off.
Please keep praying and emails and comment make days like this alittle more bearable.
Love
Donna and Jeff