Must to my joy and surprise this morning, I opened my inbox to find an email from Cinderella's German host family! I had sent them a letter and a CD with all of the photos of Cinderella we had and I tracked it and knew it was delivered.....and I was hoping for a letter in return. But I was expecting a letter in the postal mail, and here I get something even better - email!
It was in German, but thankfully I know of many translation websites, and I was able to translate their letter. I was crying the whole time I was fervently cutting and pasting each block of text.
It seems that they found our old blog on LiveJournal, and found my email address there....not to be an age-ist, but from what I was told, they were an older couple, so I did not think they would be active on the internet. My parents can check their email and my grandmother can do basic computer functions, but they would never have been able to scour the internet for someone's contact information!
They read our blog, and our letter and said that we had been misinformed or misunderstood some information concerning them. They said they were always upfront with Cinderella and her director about their inability to adopt the girls. They never made any concrete plans about the girls post-orphanage life. I was led to believe by the information I was given that this couple was "competition" to us adopting the girls....how relieved and thankful I was to finally get the facts directly from the German family themselves! It appears that we will have a good ongoing relationship with them and they will easily become part of our extended global family :)
They also are putting together a CD of all the photos of Cinderella they have from her 4 summer visits to Germany and their 5 visits to Ukraine and I am hoping they may have more information concerning Cinderella's health and history.
This is our new blog to document our journey to adopt three older Ukrainian girls. We live in Atlanta, Georgia USA
