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Mold me and Make me

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Arent my kids beautiful?It is so exciting to know that God has hand chosen our children and given them to us adopted or not. We don’t know what to expect. Chloe, our first born is beautiful, easygoing and fun. God blessed us with her as our first cookie cutter gingerbread child. Blake has been my easiest little blessing. He is so gentle and loving but also the rough tough little boy is all there too. God blessed me with this second little cookie cutter gingerbread child.

Camye is my little mother, so joyful, helpful and beautiful. She has been an easy and 3rd little cookie cutter gingerbread child.

Paul is the baby of our family for now. He is just like his dad and Uncle Nathan, always laughing and joking around with everyone. However he is no our typical cookie cutter gingerbread cookie. I believe God gave us cookie dough and asked us to Mold him and Make him. 🙂

I am so excited to see what God has in store for us with our new little girl. I look at her and think she looks like my mom. I look at her smile and see Paul. I look at her hair and see Chloe. I look at her laughter and see Blake. I look at her run and see Kenny. What will little Mia Grace add to our family? I know it will be lots of joy, tears, frustration, laughter, and playing. I just cant wait to meet her.

Mold me and make me after Thy will, While I am waiting, yielded and still. Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!~ I have always loved this song. But I need to ask myself Am I willing to say Mold me, and shape me, and use me, Lord make me …that is my prayer

I am really not a pscho…

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Today I had to go and run my weekly errands, Aldi, Target, Kohls and Giant Eagle. I really wanted to go to Target to get somethings to put in Mia’s gift bag to send her (blog coming soon). But I knew if I went to Target first I wouldnt want to go to Aldi because it is boring and just groceries……so I decided to I better go to Aldi. As I was getting out of my van at Aldi, I realized I didnt have that quarter so I could get my grocery cart. I thought oh great..should have went to Target. I had a 2 dimes and a nickel. I figured I would just go stand in front of the carts and wait for someone to come by and I would explain my annoying little situation and exchange my money for their cart.

BUT of course, what do you think was sticking out of the shopping cart when I walked up….a quarter..of course there was a quarter there. God wanted me in Aldi for some reason.:) I was so happy to see that little quarter. I joyously went along on my grocery shopping and ran into an old friend and chatted for a few minutes. When out of the corner of my eye, I saw a little Asian girl with her American mommy. I couldnt tear my eyes off of her. She was so beautiful. I told my friend I was dieing to go and talk to the woman. She told me to go for it.

So being the chatty and persistant woman I am…thats what I did. I walked up to her and said, “Excuse me, I have something to ask her and I hope she doesnt take it wrong.” I then proceeded to tell her our story about adopting from Korea. She told her little one was from Korea and how fabulous their experience had been. While I was talking to this woman, her little 3 year old daugher was staring at me, reached for my hand and rubbed the top of it….almost reassuring me everything was going to be fine.

Of course I was staring at her, her profile, her dark hair, her dark eyes, her beautiful skin, her smile…. Anyway, we finished our conversation..of course I was staring at her daughter and maybe that was getting uncomfortable. I know I was feeling that way..so I tore myself away and she starts talking to her daughter and CALLS HER MIA!!!! Being the persistant adoptive mother that I am, I turned around and said Mia..that is what we are naming our little girl???? I then showed her pictures of my Mia. Again..almost moved to tears. I really hope she didnt notice my paper-pregnant tears or emotions coming through.

Thank you Lord, for that chance to meet another Mia. To reassure me, that I am going to see my little Mia soon, very soon.:)

Presenting our daughter, Mia Grace:)

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I am so proud to share with you, our precious little girl, Mia Grace. She is adorable, sweet, cute, fun, loves to dance, loves to sing, loves to play the piano. She is 2 years old. She is an answer to our prayers.

Words can not describe how I feel when I look at this babies face…oh wait yes they can. Do you remember that feeling you got when you looked at your newborn? That is the undescribeable feeling. I knew it the moment I laid eyes on her. I said, “Thats her..that’s our daughter.” Kenny took one look and said, “That’s her.”

She is so sweet and loving videos. We have 6 videos..We watch them over and over.

She is a sweet little ‘Seoul’.

~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 HER 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 HERfile…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 HER File..turned down.

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

2/21- We have HER 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, and explained my feelings on a few things. She said that she told the Korean SW’s and HER foster parents that she has a family for HER 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! 🙂
4/7 Homestudy to Korea
4/7 Legals

~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! 🙂