Category Archives: South Korea

Things to Accomplish Before Mia Comes Home…..

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With this one little picture, I knew…I knew she was the one that I would hold in my arms. She is the one who is in my daughter. The one who has been living in another world away from me, until we could figure out we wanted to adopt. I am already in love her.

I have to prepare for Mia to be home within 7-11 weeks, this is soon!!! I have a ton of stuff to get done.

Things to purchase:

~toddler bed

~car seat

~sippy cups CHECK

~potty chair

~Pororo table and chair

Things to do around this busy house.

~Finish the school year with my 9th grader, 6th grader, 4th grader and kindergartner

~ Get the older three evaluated

~Have Blake tested for 6th grade (should have done that last month) CHECK

~Order 10th grade, 7th grade, 5th grade and 1st grade curriculum(well what I dont have)

~ Clean Front closet

~Weekend in Nashville CHECK

~10 days in Texas CHECK

~4 days in West Virginia

~High School co-op trip to Cedar Point

~Plan High School Sock Hop CHECK

~Reorganize Kitchen cabinets CHECK

~Sort cookbooks..no reason to have about 300!!

~Plan and organize a VBS

~Plant a massive garden

Hold on Mia…Mommy is coming ~!!!!

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.:)

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.

A BIG Announcement….

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Well I havent put this on Facebook yet…and I know just a few select friends and familes read this blog. But here is our annoucement


**************************WE ARE ADOPTING************************************

Yes it is true!! Our homestudy is finished and we are now about to start reviewing a few children’s files. Our hearts are being pulled toward a Waiting Child from South Korea. But we will see what the Lord has in store for us. We do plan to adopt toddler that is waiting to be adopted.

We do have some pictures of the little ones we are about to review and we are sooooo excited! But of course I can not release pictures without saying yes!! But I will ASAP!!!

Some answers to some humerous questions I have been asked so far:

******Will you homeschool this one? Yes, Yes I will.
******Are you RICH? No and it isnt really that expensive Have YOU checked into all your options?…will blog on that later.
******Are you crazy? You already have 4 kids. Yes, Yes I am.
****** What about Paul? he wont be your baby? Paul was jumping for joy when he found out there would be a smaller person in the house than him.
******What does Kenny think? Kenny is the reason I am writing this paritcular blog at this time because Kenny couldnt wait to make the announcement and announced a ALL GUYS church card party at a good friend of mine’s house. And i felt I must make the announcement to my friends.:) So is Kenny excited?!! Yes, Yes he is.:)
I think these questions are rather humerous.