We are still waiting for things to go bad. Every mom has told me this is bad surgery.. Hard recovery… But she is rocking the recovery!

I can’t believe it but Mia is eating large quanties of Quinoa breakfast cereal that I made!!

1 cup cooked quinoa
1/4 cup of vanilla almond milk
Pinch of salt
Pinch of pepper
Pinch of ginger
Pinch of nutmeg
1 1/2 tablespoons of brown sugar

This is all she is eating but it has lots of protein and carbs. It is known as a superfood.:)

She is sleeping great.

She is exhaling the entire night!

The only pain is her ears but the Tylenol and ibuprofen are helping that.

Thank you Lord!!!:)

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So thankful we were able to go home today.
I am such a homebody… Anymore.
Daddy, Avah and Paul came to get Mia and I.

Avah stopped at the giftshop and told us she wanted her birthday party there.;)

Silly kids.. Paying for parking.

Love these littles!!

Paul missed Mia so much.

And she missed him!

Pittsburgh Childrens Hospital is awesome. This is a Lego display of the hospital.

And when we got home.. My older 3 were sound asleep and slept all day after a teen lock in at church.

And sweet Avah helped Daddy put together my expedit stand and my new billy bookcase!! Love love love!!!!

She is such a great helper. And always wanting to help.

Ta-Da!!!

I am thrilled to say after many many months of waiting. Mia passed the blood tests. Mia hasn’t had a fever in 2 weeks. Mia hasn’t had a cold in two weeks.
And we were able to get those ‘yucky’ Tonsils and adnoids … Doctors words not mine out!!

She was not too fond of the gown.

Or the doctors.

Or the socks.

But managed a little grin.

Someone asked me once, What will you do if your little girls don’t like each other when they get home? Odd question… But not a problem.

Coloring fun!

Silliness is back.

A little swollen.. But should be back to normal in no time.
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I am asked several times a month on advice on getting started on adopting.
From what agency? What home study agency? What books to read? What about RAD? Can I handle his or her needs? Which country? And on and on? While these are good questions in which I typically answer. There is one piece of advice I want to offer.
Prepare yourself for spiritual warfare like you have never experienced before. Armor your self with the word. Prepare for the enemy to attack from every angle. The more times you adopt.. The worse it gets. Satan hates us. Hates we are adopting children out of his stronghold into the arms of Jesus.
While we were adopting Mia, several things happened. Nothing huge… Little things. Adoption friends didn’t like me. Fridge broke. We had to sign a waiver from Korea saying Mia could have had A and B.. Which were worse case scenarios and UNTRUE.
While waiting for Avah:
1. Entire country shut down for international adoptions. We all lived in fear for 10 months as they figured it all out.
2. This fear was like no other. I swear I have PTSD from it.
3. Stove broke
4. Dishwasher broke
5. The 3 weeks before we traveled to Korea … We received new diagnosis on Avah. One after the other. New tumors. New fibromas. Three others I won’t share publicly. By the way all untrue.
6. The night before we got Avah … My grandmother passed away. I will never forget that. My family decided it would be best to keep from me that my grandmother had had a stroke while we were in Korea. So all my friends at home wouldn’t talk to me because they were afraid of telling me and wanted my parents too. Snort.. No comment. I got the email on one of my sleepless nights
In Korea. I had no clue she was even sick or in the hospital. I sat up in my bed.. Clutching my chest and hyper ventilating. Yelling for Kenny and sobbing … No. Not my Mamaw. Not now. Not when I am about to get my daughter. But it was true. Broke my heart. Satan totally stole my joy. Not that Satan caused my grandmother to die… But the decisions and circumstances leading up to it made me take it so much harder.
Waiting for HyunSoo…
1. Precancerous cells found
2. Teenager issues
3. Kids fighting
4. Problems with kids doctor
5. Possible muscular dystrophy for one of my children
6. Stress level extremely high
7. Teenage drama
8. Blamed for taking child to doctor too many times.
9. Blamed for not taking same child to not enough doctors.
10. Korea again is having zero movement.
11. Lots of unspoken issues

And guess what.. Our paperwork isn’t even sent to Korea yet.
So prepare yourself.. Arm yourself with the word! God has got this!!!
Continue to Spread Love!!!
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We have reached a fork in the road. We have two paths
we can take. One is extremely easy. The second one could be extremely hard, expensive and unknown.

You know one of those moments when you just know it is a God ordained moment.. Like you know God set it up… Without a doubt.

The BIG question. Can I live with myself if I decide the path I must follow would be path one? Can I do that? Can I live with myself? Can I live with easy? Do i even want too? the answer is no.

Satan knows we are saying yes to path two. Satan knows we are choosing God’s path. God moved our hearts on May 24, 2012 in a way I still stand amazed and always will. The same day we met Avah. In fact the same hour we met Avah. God orchestrated a situation where this little precious boy fell onto my lap. God literally let him run into a wall so I would open my eyes.

How do you say no to God?

I must bring him home. I have loved him from the day I set eyes on him. I have loved him since I first heard his screams and cries. I loved him from the moment he allowed me to offer him comfort. Since he reached up, looked into my eyes and stroked my face.. I swear his eyes said to me, “What about me? Why not me?”

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Avah has started sleeping in her bed all night! I am so excited! Mia that’s another story. She gets her tonsils out on the 15th.. Hoping for better sleep then!!

But can I say I love waking up by these two sweet girls every morning.

Adoption is amazing!!!!!! I look at these sweet girls each day and am amaze that they were born to another mother in another country.. Yet God chose lowly old me to be their mother!! Thank you god for such blessings!

Proverbs- not a fun bible bowl book.
One of my favorite books..
But not for bible bowl.
But we have had over 31 weeks to have a blast with this book… And boy have we ever.

We have made crafts!

We have mind mapped.

We have studied.

We have played games.

We have studied Gods word together.

But most of heart… We now have Proverbs written on the tablets of our hearts.
Check our our iMom board on pinterest!:)

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Allergies…
I have suspected for a Long time. I have it in black and white. I can not ignore it any longer.

However with all the allergies going on right now. I suspect it’s more than allergies. I will get to that later.

Time to get serious. I have been crazily pinning on Pinterest at wendiplus6. I like things in hard copy still… So I purchased all these. I think this shows my age.:)

I need to just dive in. Not be completely overwhelmed and just do it.

So I did.

I took Paul grocery shopping. Because well.. He is worried he is going to be hungry. And that kills my mama heart. He thinks he can’t eat anything but broccoli.

So I cooked up some chicken with gluten free, soy free and dairy free BBQ sauce for Paul and Mia to have for lunches thought out the week. And probably Avah because I won’t leave any child out. BBQ sauce from the book, “The Healthy Gluten-Free Life”.

Not the best picture but apples, grapes, chicken lettuce wraps.. Oh so good! Everyone liked them. Here is the link to this recipe: http://www.familyfeatures.com/feeds/food/FeatureDetail.aspx?ID=4018

Total yum!!! I mean this was delicious. This is called Famous Mashed Potatoes and Sausage Veggie Stuffing. Oh my goodness…my tastebuds are tingling. For real!! Both of these are from  The Healthy Gluten-Free life as well.

I do have a little spin on all these allergies. Chloe is trying to be a vegetarian for an entire year. She hasn’t eaten meat since Thanksgiving. I don’t fix two meals she just eats around what we eat. But I held this out for her so she could eat it. She loved hers!

And gooey chocolate brownies … Who could resist!!
Yes from The Healthy Gluten Free Life.

I have big plans for my menu this week!! Stay tuned!!

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Ughhhh we have never been sicker than we have been this year. From colds to sinus to strep to stomach virus to what we thought was the flu was just a 3-5 day fever virus that ends in a horrendous sneezing and coughing cold. Which is where I am currently at. Bleh.

In the midst of this sickness… We have received our long awaited allergy results for Paul and Mia. Did I really want to know this? Yes… I did.
Here they are:
Paul- soy, gluten, rice and oat
Mia- caesin, gluten,soy, rice and tuna
Yes she is Korean and yes that says rice and soy. Ahhhhh could explain so much.

We have many reasons we need to be on a healthier eating plan other than the obvious.

My plan… For now.. Until I can get better… Gluten free which we already were 60% anyway. Paul thinks he is starving and going to be deprived so we have had gluten free boxed dessert every night to help with his fear of hunger and his threat to run away if all gluten free food taste like broccoli. 😉 love that kid!!

But I have a plan that involves more than just boxed delish. I will post our plan as soon as I get off the floor from my sneezes knocking me out.

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I do not allow the girls to touch the potty anywhere with their hands. They both have gotten pretty talented with flushing.

Mia had a boot on.. It fell off as she put her foot up.
Oh the joys of iKea.:)

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