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On Grieving.

Imagine for a second that you were happily married and truly in love with your partner, but one day, he announces that sometime in the near future, you’ll be living with a new partner. You stare at him blankly, not sure exactly what he means by that and continue on with your day. He keeps […]

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EEEEEEEP!

After over a year of waiting and having no movement within our adoption process for our Lil’ Cowgirl, about a month ago, we received the news that our girl’s paperwork was submitted for her Emigration Permit, or EP — hence the EEEEEEP! So, here’s what this means…EP approval is one the final steps needed before […]

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Gallon-Sized Plastic Bags, Labeled with Marker…

Somehow, that doesn’t sound quite as poetic as “brown paper packages tied up with string…” But, those are the parameters that we have to work with when it comes to sending care packages to our sweet Lil’ Cowgirl, so we make it work! As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, we’re in for a loooong wait […]

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We’ve Got a Secret…

Yes, we’ve got a secret to share… …it’s a really good one, too.

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Finally Four

We. Are. Four. Really, need I say more?! We. Are. Four… Together. Finally! We’re feeling every emotion under the sun as we navigate our new family dynamic. There’s joy and there’s sadness. There is hope and there is fear. And there is a lot excitement and uncertainty too. But overall… there is just a feeling of peace. […]

It’s “go” time!

Last I wrote, we were waiting… with no idea when we would be called back to Korea. We were told to hope for February, but no guarantees. So imagine our surprise (among many other emotions) when we received a call from our social worker last Wednesday evening asking us if we thought we could be […]

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The Waiting is the Hardest Part…

I bet all of you didn’t know I had magical powers, but look! I just disappeared off the face of the blogosphere for a month and {wham!} I’m back now. Just. Like. Magic. I really think I missed my calling, I should have gone to Hogwarts. Clearly. All joking aside… I’m sorry for disappearing on […]

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