It has been 6 months having our little guy home. Our trips to Seoul went well. During the first trip we connected with our older son’s foster family. It was such a joy to see how happy his foster mom and sister were to reunite. We were the first family that has come back so …
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Finally matched
I haven’t blogged in quite a while. Apparently I posted 2 years ago when we started adoption #2. That was a long time ago and during that time we were up and down and thinking we could just be happy with one child. Then we received a referral about a month ago and ended up …
Here we go again
We are in the process of adopting our second child! Ayden is doing so amazingly well and we would like to grow our family and give Ayden a brother or sister. We’ve been working on our home study. I forgot how much paperwork it is. We also had to do additional training since it’s been …
Educating Educators about Adoption
I had my first face to face parent teacher conference yesterday. There have been two conference periods since Ayden has started daycare, but at those times he was still adjusting to everything so we just wanted to give him more time and weren’t too worried about hitting certain milestones. Now that his speech/language development is …
November 2020
November is adoption awareness month. I follow a lot of other Korean adoption families on social media and they are reflecting on their experiences. It’s nice to see that a lot of them have the same thoughts as me. We are grateful and simultaneously disappointed in the culture that gave us our children. Without the …
Waiting, waiting, waiting
My husband and I are nearing the end of a new home construction. We broke ground November 2019. They got the frame up right before the pandemic gravely exploded worldwide. The timing was fortunate because now the cost of lumber has gone up. What is unfortunate now is that covid has caused many shipping delays …
Parenting in the times of corona
I’m trying to see the positives of this pandemic. Luckily my whole family has been healthy and safe. We stay home and take all the necessary precautions. I became a mom in December of 2019 and the pandemic really took full force only a couple of months later, so I had a little bit of …
Choosing Adoption
One of the best books I read in deciding to adopt was Adoption: Choosing it, Living It, Loving It by Dr. Ray Guarendi. He’s a psychologist who, with his wife, has adopted 10 children. While Guarendi focuses mostly on domestic adoption and the foster system, many of his chapters are still relevant to international adoption. The book …
Mama is Everything
Ayden’s not talking a whole lot. Well he babbles funny gibberish quite often but it’s not intelligible. The word he says most frequently and most clearly is Mama. It reminds me of the quote. I used to look at it a lot on my adoption board, but now it has a whole new meaning. For …
One Month Update
It’s hard to believe that it’s been only a month. It went quickly and I feel like Ayden has been with us forever. He has been adjusting so well. I was scared before because I heard stories from adoptive families who had attachment issues. I think because Ayden was so clingy to his foster family …
Adopting After Infertility 