You are nine months old now my sweet girl! Are you walking yet?!
I know I said a few posts back that our EP quotas were met and then turned out it was a false alarm and all was right with the world again...WELL...EP quotas have been met for real this time. UUUGH. All I could think at first was "NOOOOOOO!!!!!" But now I am trying to stay calm by telling myself the wait will start up again in late January and hopefully we will still travel around February, which was always the guesstimated time anyway. So I think we will all survive this. The process had begun progressing so quickly up until this point, there was the thought in the back of my head that we could travel in December, but that will not be possible now. To be positive - #1. I guess I can "relax" knowing there will be no traveling abroad until at least late January (if one can relax when their child is overseas). I am TeRRiFieD of flying and traveling to a foreign country (which I have never done). Sometimes I wonder if I can even do it. There is the option of having Violet flown to us. But more than the fear I want to see her home country and I know the foster mother loves for the families to come meet them. It is the least I can do for her. #2. There are only about 3 or 4 families (at least what I can tell from the forum) who are still ahead of us. So there is the exciting possibility that Korea will get all our paperwork done in the meantime and we can all go at once when the new year comes! #3 We were given the estimated wait time of 8-12 months which would be February-June. So anything will be better than June and we may only have to wait until February!
God knows the right time to send our children to us when we leave it up to Him and let Him take control of the situation.
Tonight, Faith had a Halloween party with her playgroup and Aidan went too. All those little kids LOVE him, he was the hit of the party! Those kids climbed on him, and jumped on him, and hung from all over, and he LOVED it! I love that I have such a sweet, kind son who loves little kids and is so good with them! Faith had a good time, she dressed up as Sleeping Beauty. I had bought her a plush butterfly costume (with fleece pants) and it was 80 degrees outside! So last minute I found a $7 blonde wig (it was actually a High School Musical "Sharpay" - yes I had to google that - wig with a crown already attached!) and she already had the dress and shoes! Of course this wig only stayed on about 10 minutes. Aidan just wanted to wear all black and be scary. I found this awesome black mask at a Halloween store and a black "Scream" robe from Target. Halloween is so much fun! We have our "Fall adoptive families get-together" tomorrow afternoon at the Corn Maze in Cave Springs. Other families in our area who have adopted from Korea get together about every 6 months and plan an event. I planned this one, which did feel a little odd/sad since I don't have my child home yet. But I can't wait to see everyone and ask them lots of questions!
Next weekend my parents are having a Halloween party for our church family. We will roast marshmallows and hot dogs and take scary walks through the woods! WoooOOOooo! And we will possibly go trick-or-treating Sunday evening after worship. Gonna be a fun holiday!
Matthew 6:33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.
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| Faith loving on her "Bubby" at the party |
