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Rush, Rush, Wait, Wait, Wait..all worth it in the end!

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    That is the adoption game I am playing right now…I rush to finish and overnight paperwork and wait for a response. Then I get the response, to only find out that I missed turning in my kids medical reports!!

    I thrive on paperwork, I find myself insulted that I missed this.

    Please pray that I can find a doctor to see my 4 beautiful kiddos and sign a paper saying they are as healthy as I know they are!

    We did recieve a fabulous update on our little girl today:

    She can count to 5!! yes she is only 2 years old!!

    She enjoys inviting her foster family to the table and asking if anyone would like coffee.

    She loves strawberries.

    She likes her foster mother to peel her orange.

    She is almost completely caught up developmentally.

    She loves to laugh, dance and sing. Wow I love my little girl!:)

    AND THE BeST NEWS IS THAT WE WILL BE GETTING A VIDEO TOMORROW!! OH YES….THANK YOU LORD!!! OUR GOD IS SO AWESOME!

    Also I have a personal goal to encourage 10 people to adopt, so far I have 3 friends that are considering it and 1 who just started her homestudy!! If you are considering adoption, I would love to chat with you!:):)

    I want to post pictures of my daughter ….

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    I am just dieing to post pictures of our precious baby girl… after finally getting to overnight my homestudy (which has already been approved to our agency this morning)….I think I deserve to post one little picture. Here is one of her little eyes. She is so precious!!!

    Everyone keeps asking when I can post pictures, I havent done this before I am not sure when I am allowed to post pictures. I was waiting for HSTK..which could happen tomorrow.:)

    Thanksgiving Thursday!!

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    Thankfulness….Oh wow.!! I am so blessed!!
    I am so thankful for all the new little things I have learned of our new little girl!!

    ~Her newly cut bangs.
    ~Her pig tails that touch her shoulders.
    ~Her new name that we arent announcing just yet. We finally decided.
    ~Her teeny tininess!!
    ~All 7 new pictures.
    ~Her absolute cuteness.

    ~Mia Grace’s Timeline~

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    Yes I started this blog on December 24th….I wanted to keep track of everything on the day it happened. First, we started talking about adopting as soon as we got married. I always have said that IF God wanted us to adopt I felt that he would present it to me. After going to the City of Children in the summer of 2010 I knew we needed to adopt. Funny thing is I didnt want to say I wanted too unless Kenny wanted too, and I didnt want him to say we could just because I said we could. Soooo….I waited and hoped he would say something. On December 1st, 2010, we got a 12 passenger van. I looked at Kenny and said okay we can adopt now, we have space in the car for more kids!! He said, “Is that all it took for you to decide to adopt? We could have bought a new van a long time ago!!”

    Here is our timeline:

    12/1/2010- Decided to go for it.

    12/7- Mailed in application

    12/7- Mailed in HomeStudy paper work and made request for all paperwork to be sent to us.

    12/7- Fingerprinted

    12/20- Saw Heimee Lee’s picture and knew she was the one. Requested her file.

    12/23- Our 3 references recieved their requests to write a character reference about us 12/24- We recieved our Childline and Abuse Forms and of course do not have any record. This said it would take 4-6 weeks.

    12/27- recieved our Child Abuse History clearance certificates for Kenny, Chloe and myself. Because we had someone living in our house over age 14, she needed a clearance as well. 1/17- Medical Exam ( I scheduled these in December) They called and cancelled.

    1/18- Called and kind of threw a small fit to get into see the doctor. 1/18- Pass Medical Exams…Faxed in…

    1/20- Requested Heimee Lee’s file…AGAIN.. turned down.

    1/28- First Home Study Visit..went fabulous and our social worker who is fabulous told us to expect 4 months!! Yikes!!

    1/30- Second Home Study Visit- PREAPPROVED

    2/7- BEGGED for Heimee Lee’s File..turned down.

    2/21- Home Study to CHSFS….hoping for a file …of our waiting child!!

    2/21- We have Heimee Lee’s file!!! And she is beautiful and exquisite and smart and we know she is our daughter.

    2/22- Try to say yes!! We want this little girl!!!

    3/8- We are being told that they want us to wait for one more medical file….before they will accept our YES!! It could take a couple of weeks…grrr…

    3/9- Emailed our SW, Peg and explained my feelings on a few things. She said that she told the Korean SW’s and Heimee’s foster parents that she has a family for little Heimee and the mother is very persistant..Hmm..who would have thought???

    4/4- I600A form was recieved by USCIS

    4/5- Fedex delivered the REFERRAL PAPERWORK!!

    4/5- We overnighted everything signed and notarized. For anyone wanting to know details on the actual paperwork…and we paid in full today. EEK! 🙂

    Home Study!!!!

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    Our home study was last night…I was a nervous wreck. We cleaned and cleaned. I was nervous. The kids were nervous. Kenny was fine…:)

    It went soooo smoothly. Our social worker was very sweet. She asked us questions about ourselves, our families and each other. She looked around the house. And she interviewed the kids…who thought that was pretty cool.

    It couldnt have gone any smoother if I could have planned it myself. We are thrilled.

    She did give us one unexpected bit of information. She asked us if we realized that Korean adoption was rather quick. We told her we did, that we had read that it was 6-9 months wait after referral. She said she had just finished 3 Korean adoptions and each of them had taken…are you ready for this.

    4 MONTHS!!!

    Okay 4 months..I can handle that. I want her to come home in 4 months.I need to digest this. I know that it may not be that quick. But I am a planner and want to start preparing. But we do know that our daughter has been born and we need her to come home…as quick as possible.