It is 6am on Thursday here...can't sleep...to anxious. Thought I would say thanks to all that have been visiting our blog. When we left on Monday, we had about 200 hits.....it is now almost 700! We'll update later. JP

We finally found and internet connection in a hotel near our apartment....it is about dsl speed. We slept pretty good last night up until about 3am (Kiev time). We met with Lynee & John yesterday and talked with them for about an hour. For those

Jon and Summer have arrived in Kiev and reached the apartment they will be staying in. The flight from Amsterdam was good. Summer says it was hot today in Kiev but that a storm was forecast that should cool things off. They called their parents in Sa

It is actually 8am on the 31st here and we just arrived at 730. The flight was actually pretty easy, but oh man is this one big airport. We had to walk about a mile from one terminal to the other. All else is good and we hope to post soon from Kiev.

Jon and I are leaving today!  I can't believe the day has finally arrived.  I'm scared, nervous, anxious and excited but mostly hopeful for what the future holds.  We dropped the girls off in Salem over the weekend.  The ride home sure was quiet.

We fly out tommorow.....hooray! We left the girls down in Oregon this weekend and came home today. We are now trying to pack 100 lbs of clothes into a 50 lb bag.....lots of fun. We will do our best to keep this blog up to date via us or our family

Next week this time we will be at the NAC. We are taking the girls down the grandparents tommorow and will fly out for Kiev this weekend. All though it is going to be very hard for us to be away from the girls for so long, we have been able to see so

13 days until we fly out. I must say that in the past few days, anxiety has begun to set in. The worst part of this is of course is that it seems to only come on at bed time....go figure that. I know the one thing that makes me most worried, is how

We are really ready to go for the most part. We have tickets, visas, childcare, housecare, petcare, etc. We have 99% of our "things to buy list" bought. The anxious/ sleepless nights have not come yet....at least not too bad. Summer is tak

I just wanted to write down some of my thoughts and feelings before we leave for Ukraine for our adoption appointment on June 2nd.So much of what happens in our lives is all about timing.  I have to admit that over the last few months I have been

We have an appointment on Thursday June 2, 2005. You can see all of our activity through May by clicking on the "Paperwork Timeline" link to the left.JP

We are Jon and Summer Parkinson.  We are creating this blog so that those who know us can visit and see the progress of our adoption. We also hope we can help other prospective adoptive parents see how the process has worked for us. We have done muc

Friday, 1 October 2004This is actually being typed in on October 17, 2004, but I figured better late than never. We have done a "ton" of research and finally think that we know which way to head with our adoption. We came across the name Ca