Seond request:::

Looking for a Spanish family to translate for our son Nikolai

 

We are looking for his two sibling brothers

 

Please help

As we do not know where to look. 

One was an older sibling of 12-13 from Donetsk with a sibling  brother now either seven or only four

All other responses have been dead leads

 

thanks

 

 

 

 

 

http://travel. state.gov/ family/adoption/ intercountry/ intercountry_ 4379.htm

 October 23, 2008
 
Ukraine: Unused Quotas

 On October 14, 2008 the Ministry for Family, Youth and Sports published
 official Order #3899 approving revised procedures for submission of new
 adoption dossiers from foreign citizens in the fourth quarter of 2008.
 The annual adoption dossiers quota for 2008 previously had been set at
 1,453. Although all of these were booked within the first months of this
 year, not all of these families actually submitted dossiers. As a result,
 the SDAPRC (State Department for Adoptions and Protection of the Rights of
the Child) has now opened the unused slots for new adoption dossiers.
 These slots are not an increase in the annual quota; rather they still
 fall under the annual limit of 1,453 dossiers. This number is not
 subdivided by country or by specific categories of children.

The SDAPRC resumed acceptance of new dossiers on October 14th, 2008 and
 will continue accepting dossiers for 2008 until November 27th, 2008. 
 
Order #3899 includes two attachments, one of them presenting the number of
children available for intercountry adoptions, sorted by age and health
condition, as of September 1, 2008. Please note that these statistics are
 independent of annual quota set by the Ministry (noted above), but provide
 a useful overview of ages and health condition of children available for
 adoption. The second attachment is the schedule for submission of
adoption dossiers from foreign adoptive parents. Both documents are on
 the website above

I have been involved with Ukraine adoptions for almost nine years.  There were few adoptions prior to mine ..only probably less than 1000 total ever.

 

Back when I began the research for UA, there were only a few small webpages, as well.  Not blogs.  Just family oriented webpages.  Typical cheap or paid for services that were hard to work with or expensive.  So much tougher to work with then blogs, which I can attest to here http://www.geocities.com/boomerseyler/ (my sad typical generic website that is still hard to add too). 

 

Yet before their were blogs these families were the ones that stole my heart.  There were others, but sadly their webpages (not blogs again) have disenegrated slowly after years of no use and are now gone.  But luckily, I found some of my favorite websites I poured over before I adopted in december 2000 and still available today...

 

 

One of my personal favorites was the williams family. http://williamsfamily_4.tripod.com/independentukrainianadoption/ I read their story a thousand times at least it seemed like it.  I met the family a few years later.  They were awesome mentors not just by their webpage for me, by their stoy. The best part their son is incredibly just like Nik in looks and personality.

 

I had three or four..50... other favorites, I read over and over which are now disabled. 

 

With that being said, I hope that if you start a blog for your child and your journey, please finish.  You can take the blog and make a book of it.  Journal your experience from your blog.  Give it an ending.

 

But if nothing else, finish out your story and say good bye, at some point.  At least finalize your journey whether it was happy or sad for you, your child, family, friends, or those to follow in the blogging/webpage world.  What a gift to others.

 

What a wonderful surprise Oksana and I just happened to see today!

 

I was pushing Oksana in a stroller ( the Sauerkraut Fesitval) was CRAZY with people everywhere! 

 

I looked over and saw a cute mommy and said AHHH.. a new mommy pushing the stroller of a cutiepie.... and then... recognition... I KNOW THEM!  Well much to my delight we saw our friends Staci and Damon with the amazing Wesley  http://stacianddamon.blogspot.com/

 

Oh and Wesley is the CUTEST boy EVER (since June 2002 Nikolai's adoption). 

He is the CUTEST!!!! 

Oh he just made my heart melt! 

 

I said look at "those" shoes and he pointed to his "NOSE"  then eyes and ears and  every other cute part of his body with baby words. 

Of course Oksana had to mother "hen" him and analyze the baby situation.  Oksana has decided that YES, Wesley is a cute baby that needs her to hold him

 

Anyway he is a doll, cutiepatottie, surgarplum etc... and reminds me why the joruney to Ukraine is so worth it!  Congrads Staci and Damon

 

Come on over to http://thecabbagepatchkids.blogspot.com/ to see some pics and read more!

It took me awhile, but I have updated the blogs!  Happy reading!!!