She walked in one day and asked me if I was ready to have a family of our own.
At first, I was dumbstruck, like what was she saying? It had been two years, I
thought she liked things just the way they were, and YES, I wanted a family of
my own, but didn't push the subject. I asked her what she had in mind, and she
told me, let's adopt a baby!

Long "beginning" of this story short, after almost a year of trying to adopt a
baby in the United States, we decided to do two things: look outside the US,
and look for older children.

We started by adopting two biological sisters, aged 4 and 6, from Vladamir,
Russia. We went to Russia twice, the first time for 5 days to meet and interact
 with them, after which we were asked if we liked those children. Like, DUH,
yeah, we LOVE them. OK, go home and we'll tell you when you can come back. Wow,
 uh, ok, so back home we went. One month later, to the day, we were told be
prepared to travel again within 2 days. Back to Russia we went, this time for a
 week, after which we got to come home with two of the most adorable young
ladies that couldn't be any more perfect! Neither spoke a lick of English, and
us? Russian? Uh, no. That made for some interesting first few weeks. Today,
those two incredible ladies are 18 and 21, a senior in High School, and a
Sophomore in college.


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