We Are Heading Home

Hello to Friends & Family Around the Globe: WE ARE HEADING HOME!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, this is Monday and you have not heard from us since Friday. Things here remain terrific…more about that in a moment. Donny is breaking in his parent and his parents are loving it.

---Saturday & Sunday have were very eventful and left us little time to type in the blog. When we did try to update on Sunday, we had lost or internet modem for the entire day. (If you have tried to send us e-mail or a blog comment in the last 48 hours, sorry but we haven’t received them.)

---Monday has been a terrific day as well. It is now almost 8pm in our corner of the world. Today we had an unexpected blessing as the U.S. Embassy completed our two days of processing within 5 hours! As soon as God opened that door, we were happy to run through it! By 1pm we had rebooked our plane tickets and we shall be returning home on Tuesday, December 30^th.

---So we have to pack yet this evening. Our alarm will go off at 3 am and our driver will leave at 4AM. We request your prayers for safe travel and our new world traveler to bear through it all. Our specific flight information is as follows:

6:45 am Depart Kiev for Amsterdam

Two hour layover in Amsterdam

10:50 am Depart Amsterdam for Detroit

Six hour layover in Detroit

Then a short flight lands us in St. Louis at 8:47pm Tuesday Evening.

---The 6 hour layover in Detroit will be a challenge, but as international travelers we also have to make our way through customs. Since we are bringing the young Ukrainian with us, we will also be in line for the Immigration department. We are told that both of these stops could take us up to 3 hours total. That is where your prayers are really needed.

---So this blog entry might be our shortest but it may also be our most joyous. We will return 5 weeks from the day we departed. Some days have seemed much longer than others, but the little 22 month old joy that we are now welcoming to our family has made it all worth it.

---We also acknowledge that your prayers and encouragement have been terrific tools to help us pass the time here. Most importantly, we give praise to God for all He has accomplished. What He has done here in 5 weeks will be acknowledged forever!

---This final blog entry from Ukraine comes to you with joy and great expectation as we return to see all of you soon.

In His Love,

The American Bound Daugherty Family