God in the house.” The story of a Polish family that has opened its doors to Ukrainian refugees who is now a year old; another child of ours is already in heaven is preparing for his final examinations for high school This examination opens the doors to the university and is often the age when children leave home for the first time Wojtek has taken some steps in that direction We have a fairly big and comfortable house so my wife and I began mulling over the idea of accepting some migrants from Ukraine we wanted to ask our children for their opinion that the situation could last for months and would require sacrifices from each of us We were happy with their responses and with the suggestions they offered about organizing daily life in our family The first step was to consult the town fire department since they are the ones who have taken on the job of relocating the families that want to stay in our country In the first days of March our family suddenly increased from ten to seventeen Kristina arrived with her younger sister Sonya and her year-old son The other family that came to live in our home was from Kryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih has 750,000 inhabitants and is located in southern Ukraine since the husbands of Kristina and Irena have stayed behind to defend their homeland I want to mention that for some years now Agnieszka and I have been the organizers of courses in Family Development since the number of courses in the schools near Milanowek have increased fruit of the personal initiative of people in the Work and Cooperators almost all the new families in the schools have signed up for various courses some of these families have begun to receive families displaced by the war into their own homes it was the children who took the initiative since they were the ones who asked for their parents to be added to the “fire department’s list.” In our now expanded family we decided to keep up the practices we had incorporated into our daily life with a set time for study and for meals; we look after order use electronic devices and social media with moderation Kristina and Irena were at first surprised to see the habits that our children live so naturally and cheerfully One day Irena wanted to help our little Horacio Horacio held on to his plate and said with determination: “I’ll bring it the kitchen I’ll bring it to the kitchen.” We couldn’t help laughing out loud From almost the first day a home-like atmosphere was created among all the children others studied or competed in a board game One problem of course is that now some of us speak Polish and others Ukrainian but the great difference is that Ukrainian uses the Cyrillic alphabet and Polish the Latin one We older ones are learning some phrases in both Ukrainian and Polish Together with other families connected with our schools we decided to try to find work for our guests This would help to bring more peace and avoid possible problems in the future since no one knows how long this situation will last For Kristina and Irena we have found baby-sitting jobs in other homes on some mornings This has enabled them to live a more natural routine without the restlessness of feeling unoccupied and also learning from the different families in our area where a special group for Ukrainian children has been organized The adolescent Diana is now attending our children’s high school while Karolina is taking classes at the local public school takes care of her year-old nephew while her sister is working and attends a language school in the afternoons all of us have a lot of things to talk about and share in our family meals which often evolve into long conversations around the table we have continued praying some daily prayers Thanks to the new friendships that have been forming one of the girls began going to Sunday Mass with our daughter and asked her to teach her how to make the sign of the Cross Spending so much time together gives them the opportunity to talk about the Catholic faith God in the house.” We have been able to experience this every day on seeing how much our own children are benefitting from this new situation in our family Now it is almost four weeks since our family almost doubled in size And all of us seem to have tripled in our maturity and generosity Printed | document generated automatically from https://opusdei.org/en/article/doubling-the-size-of-our-family/ (04/25/2025) Marcin Dorociński is a Polish actor who has a net worth of $2 million He is best known for starring on the TV mini-series The Queen's Gambit From 2005 to 2006 Dorociński starred as Michael Wagner on the TV series Fala zbrodni From 2005 to 2008 he starred as Slawomir "Despero" on the TV series Pitbull Marcin Dorociński starred as Krzysztof Nawojczyk on the series Tancerze from 2009 to 2010 From 2011 to 2013 he starred as Wiktor Okulicki on the television series Gleboka woda Marcin Dorociński starred on the TV mini-series Cape Town in 2016 and on the TV series The Pact from 2015 to 2016 In 2020 he starred as Vasily Borgov on the Netflix TV mini-series The Queen's Gambit He won multiple awards for Best Actor for Roza © 2025 Celebrity Net Worth / All Rights Reserved