Today marks six months on the waiting list for our second little one. We're getting SO close to knowing who our baby will be...thank goodness for happy distractions that help to take my mind off of the wait. I sure hope that we are nearing the end of this wait for our referral...please pray for good news soon.

Happy Blogaversary!

Well, friends...it's been exactly one year since we launched our blog with the announcement that we were taking the first steps toward adopting another baby from Korea. The time has flown by and we can hardly believe that we have been immersed in this process for a whole year!

In the beginning, I wasn't sure if we could keep up with a blog, but it has become another outlet for us to communicate with all of you across the miles and now, I don't know what we would do without it!

On this, our one-year blogaversary (who even knew that was a word?!), it's my pleasure to report that on the Unofficial Waiting List kept up by our agency's forum friends, we are in the #2 slot...only one family ahead of us!! (unofficially, of course.) This news is exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time as we don't know when to expect our referral call...it could be any day now OR it could be months from now. Adoption is so unpredictable. We are trying our best to remain calm and give Sophie our undivided attention as we prepare her for a sibling.

We appreciate your prayers for a peaceful wait and for peaceful hearts as we have some important decisions ahead for us! Thank you for following our blog this past year...the best news is yet to come!

Rock the Vote

FYI...gas prices have actually dropped under $2.00 in our neck of the woods!

Adoption Awareness

November is National Adoption Awareness Month...how will you celebrate?!

LEGACY OF AN ADOPTED CHILD

Once there were two women who never knew each other
One you do not remember, the other you call Mother

Two different lives shaped to make you one
One became your guiding star, the other became your sun

The first one gave you life, and the second taught you to live in it
The first gave you a need for love, the second was there to give it

One gave you a nationality, the other gave you a name
One gave you the seed of talent, the other gave you aim

One gave you emotions, the other calmed your fears
One saw your first sweet smile, the other dried you tears

One made an adoption plan, that was all that she could do
The other prayed for a child, and God led her straight to you.

Now, which of these two women, Are you the product of?
Both, my darling, Both, Just two different types of love.
---- Unknown

Paging Dr. Sophie

Happy Halloween!

Vroom...vroom!

Thanks to Charlie and one of his job perks, I had the opportunity to ride in a race car today out at Kansas Speedway...what a rush! Sophie hung out with grandma while I went around the track for a few speedy laps - she loved watching the "fast cars!" I had so much fun...I couldn't help but smile during the ride, but the wind was so cold and hitting me so fast, my teeth felt frozen! I am extremely grateful to have had this experience. Enjoy some of the photos (as you can tell, it's a cold, dreary day here...we were lucky to get this in as we've been dodging rain all day).

Happy weekend everyone!


Sophie with the official pace car...
Posing in victory lane...
Got my "fashionable" suit on...

Getting ready to climb my way into the car...

Sophie's ready to watch mama go fast!

That's me...blurry at about 160+ mph...
Making the race helmet look good! (actually, I just didn't know how to get it off!)

Girls can do anything, Sophie!