The Drydens | December 11, 2011
Yes, it’s officially been too long since we’ve sent out an update! I’ll tell you what has happened – a lot- ha! No, but really. We would say, “We need to write an update….but let’s wait until this or that happens so we can talk about it.” Then something else would happen, and something else…..and [...]
The Drydens | July 14, 2011
For anyone who has been wondering if we made it back to Ukraine–the answer is yes. We had a good trip back to Ukraine and started getting settled in right off the bat. One thing we quickly picked up on after getting back to our house was that not much had changed, both at our [...]
The Drydens | May 3, 2011
It has been a long while since we have updated you, so we hope to catch you up now on the many things that have happened since we last wrote. Last fall and winter was primarily spent here in Greenfield, IN. We are grateful that were able to take the time we needed to grieve [...]
The Drydens | September 28, 2010
Last Monday, September 20th, we went in for a doctor’s appointment. After a few minutes of the doctor not being able to find Samantha’s heartbeat with the Doppler, he decided to do an ultrasound. The ultrasound had confirmed what the doctor suspected and what we feared – Samantha was already gone. Tuesday morning, the 21st, [...]
The Drydens | August 17, 2010
Well, we’ve been in the USA for about 4 weeks now. In that time we have received a lot of new news and have been figuring out what some of it means. We haven’t posted an update for quite a while, but hope to do so more often now that we’ve settled in a little! [...]
The Drydens | July 22, 2010
Well,we made it! We touched down in the USA last Thursday and have relatively adjusted to the time difference now. As you can all imagine, we have had a busy week! The kids are still tired all day long as they slowly adjust to the time difference, but they should be back in normal order [...]
The Drydens | July 3, 2010
Family Update Since we last wrote, our plans to come home have changed. We had another ultrasound about two weeks ago to check up on a cyst that had been seen in the baby’s head. At this most recent ultrasound, the doctor also discovered a heart defect. Because of the potential seriousness of the heart [...]
The Drydens | May 29, 2010
Yes, sometimes it seems as if we have the plague or something. We are getting sick all the time in rotation. This has been yet another month of the cycle of sickness. Lily was sick at the beginning of the month. Dave was sick the next week with a fever, and then Little David caught [...]
The Drydens | April 27, 2010
Things for us are mostly intermittent and spontaneous. That is a result of the culture we live in. At first we fought against this inevitable reality without understanding that plans in Ukraine just don’t work, but we have come to embrace the spirit of living on the fly and kind of enjoy it now! Foggy [...]
The Drydens | March 24, 2010
This last month has been very interesting. A lot has happened, but at the same time it feels like not much happened. It wasn’t the kind of month when someone would say that major developments took place (in some regards), but as is usual in life, through minor events things came into place and we [...]
