Hugghins Happenings: Amazing Opportunity

I want to talk about all our Spring happenings, but I think this part deserves its own post. I had the incredible opportunity to go to Kiev, Ukraine the first week of March. Why would I want to go to Kiev, you ask? Because good friends (I'll call the husband "L" and the wife "C") of ours adopted 3 beautiful little girls! It was an incredibly long process for them...way too long to document here. They were "expecting" for 9 months (and that's after all the paperwork was approved) and had many complications along the way.

The end of the process should have taken 6-8 weeks, but they spent months in Ukraine (L is originally from there but a U.S. citizen now) and made 3 trips over there. L could do most of his work from over there, but had to get home for important meetings, which would have left C to bring home 3 very active, excited girls, ages 2, 3 and 4 by herself. That sounded pretty scary to me so I went over to help her bring them home. The girls are so precious and very loving! It breaks my heart to think that if they hadn't been adopted there's a good chance they would end up doing drugs or be involved in prostitution. I am so thankful to the Lord for giving these girls the best possible parents they could have here on earth!