Katia/Katherine

I am not sure if I doing this correct! I have never "blogged" but love this idea. Katia, who would like to be called Katherine, is precious! We fell in love with her the minute we met her in the airport, and it has only grown. Our bond is deepening although she is reserved and shy. We took her shopping for some needed items on Thursday and on Friday, we took her to Cheesecake Factory (at the mall, you can imagine how crowded the area was a couple days before Christmas!). My husband has an employee who is from Ukraine who went to lunch with us and so we had a translator. That was amazing and we asked a million questions! Katherine told my girls that we could ask her anything about her life. We are slowly but surely doing that, but do not want to overwhelm her. Her favorite thing to do is to hang with my 3 teenage daughters and also play Just Dance. She is really good at it! Yesterday, the girls helped me wrap lots of presents, and Katherine has her own way to do that, and her wrapping is quite beautiful. She is very artistic! Today we are going to our 9am church service and then up to the Blue Ridge Mountains to my sister's lake house for Christmas Eve Eve lunch. Tomorrow, we will go to a Christmas Eve service at Passion City Church. So far, SO GOOD!