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Home Study approved!

On Thursday, December 20, we got the news we’ve been waiting on for almost two months–HOME STUDY APPROVED! Our placing agency was finally able to review our home study report and, as a family, we were approved to adopt a child from Korea! After the long and drawn out wait, the news was fairly anti-climactic, […]

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Adoption loading…please wait

As the song goes, “the waiting is the hardest part.” At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we haven’t had much to report by way of an update on our progress lately. Our home study was completed and submitted to our placing agency for approval over a month ago. We finally received word […]

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#WorldAdoptionDay

“Adoption is a bridge that connects longing with love.” @beautyadmisttheashes Celebrating #WorldAdoptionDay (and a perfectly-timed vacation day) by taking in the first snowfall of the year and praying over our future little one. The “long wait” for us is very apparent. We have no babies to snuggle in our arms and keep us distracted as […]

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The Home Study (continued)

We’ve been fairly silent the past few weeks. We apologize if you’ve been wondering where things are at with our journey. The truth is, we’ve had to deal with a really upsetting and frustrating roadblock in our adoption process. We’ve struggled (at least I have) with how to articulate the rollercoaster that we’ve been on […]

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So what is a home study?

The outpouring of love and support after our adoption announcement last week has been incredible. We feel so blessed to have so many supportive people in our lives and we know our child will be so loved by so many people. THANK YOU! Throughout this week, we’ve been asked many times about where we are […]

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Trust without borders – Our international adoption announcement

Surprise! Our family is growing! We are adopting!! We are so thrilled to finally announce to you that we are on an adventure to bring our sweet baby home from South Korea!! We couldn’t be more excited to be on this journey and to welcome you aboard as well. Our road to parenthood has been […]

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Jars Like Us

I’ve prayed the same prayer for over eight years. Sometimes at the end of a much longer prayer. Sometimes it was the only prayer that I had.  “Dear Lord, please bring us closer to each other and closer to you. Amen.” Pretty simple. Pretty average. I had no idea the extent in which God would […]

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