December

Hi! Sorry its been such a long time :) A LOT has been going on. Yes, they came! I can say it was nothing like I expected. We had news after Oleysia left that one of her two sisters, Katja, had to come.

At first I thought everything would be fine, Katja would also fall in love with us and we'd live happily ever after. No. The first day was hard, in the summer Oleysia would follow me every where, she was always downstairs with us, playing games or whatever. In December Oleysia followed Katja every where, and Katja was in her bedroom most of the first week. Most of the time she was sleeping because of the time difference. She hadnt slept two nights before she boarded the plane in Latvia and didnt sleep at all on the plane. But other times she was crying for her friends, her boyfriends, her counrty, and scared. Scared of us and America. Oleysia was torn. She wanted to be with us but she also wanted to please Katja.  She stayed with Katja and she tried to comfort Katja. So that was the first week, pretty much, besides me crying my eyes out, feeling left out, hurt and confused.

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The seccond week was much harder. We went out for a girls day. Me, my mom, my two biological sisters and Oleysia and Katja. We went shopping and went out to lunch. It was great! I felt like I had my sister back. The real Oleysia. Then as we were going home we broke down and had complications, lol. After a while we were able to get home and have our girls night! The boys were spending the night at my grandparents house. But Katja was allowed on the computer and saw pictures of her boyfriend and started sobbing in her room. Then Oleysia did the same. My mom went up to talk to them and comfort them. Oleysia told my mom that she would never want to live in America. That hurt. In the summer she had even told me that she wanted to live with us for forever and ever. I spent most of that night crying and still confused.

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The rest of that week Oleysia and Katja loosened up a bit and were downstairs more and less crying from everyone. It was still difficult, since we did not have Oleysia in our house. She was so different then the girl we had in the summer.

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For the most part Katja stayed on the computer from 11 am to 6 pm, chatting with friends, skyping and putting pictures on her social site. That way Oleysia would be with us, otherwise she would decide to go with Katja in her room.

We would have a blast at night but in the morning we had setbacks. She would get shy again and wouldn't talk to us much. It was like this most days until the last days. Even though it still wasn't the same girl, it was so much better then the first weeks. She would play with us, snuggle with the little kids, laugh with me and Abby, and play Nerf wars with us :) But it was also hard for her, she was scared of going home and I think she really wants to be here. She has a choice. I hard choice. Staying in her home country, with her sisters and friends or a loving family in America. Thats a scary choice for anyone, especially a 13 year old girl.

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