You will fill me with Joy . . .: One Month Home

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

One Month Home

Four weeks ago today, we were packing up our stuff in Korea and heading home.

Four weeks ago today we were venturing into a *new* life.

A life of unknowns and new paths.

We have waited so long with a picture in hand. Now we have the little life in our hands.

Many questions lurking in our minds:

How would the boys adjust?

Would the plane ride(s) be horrible?

What makes this little beauty happy, sad?

Well, one month in, the lingering questions are being answered one by one.

We have fallen more in love with our little Joye SeoYeon.

The boys are LOVING her being around and she is SO happy to be with them.

One month in, I feel like she has always been here.

The weeks have flown by and I can't WAIT to spend more weeks in her presence.

Thank you Heavenly Father for giving us this precious little girl. Our lives are forever changed - for the better.

Happy ONE MONTH HOME baby girl!

5 comments:

Michelle said...: Lovely Jayme! It makes me even more excited to head over to Seoul and go get our Little Peanut! Thank you for sharing. She is precious and she is where she was meant to be. . .; July 14, 2010 at 8:19 PM
AAC Adoption and Family Network said...: I am so happy for you! It is wonderful to see her adjusting so well. May God continue to bless your family.
By the way I must say I love love love her hair.
-Nicole; July 14, 2010 at 10:47 PM
Christy said...: Yay! Home a month - how exciting. Still adjusting but starting to discover each other more and more. :); July 15, 2010 at 4:53 AM
Brittany said...: What a great milestone to reach! Congratulations; July 15, 2010 at 6:54 PM
Larsen Family said...: Happy one month "gotcha day" anniversary. Ours has went by so fast, I'm sure yours has too.; July 16, 2010 at 6:17 AM

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Judaya's Adoption Timeline:

November 2010: On the list again!
1/20/11: Referral!
1/24/11: Verbal Acceptance
2/15/11: Mailed off Lifesong application.
2/21/11: HS Update meeting with Social Worker.
2/22/11: Heard from Lifesong. Trying to expedite application because they know we are in an hurry. YAY!
3/1/11: Lifesong gives us a covenant loan and a matching grant!! Praise Jesus!
3/9/11: Another grant for $2000! Unexpected but totally God!
5/6/11: Heard the news that EP's are filled for this year. Looking at bringing Judaya home summer of 2012.
6/23/11: ATK: Acceptance To Korea.
6/27/2011: LEGALS
7/1/2011: Judaya turns ONE!

Joye's Adoption Timeline

2008
8/4: Sent in our Formal Application
8/12: Officially an AAC Family
8/14: #25 on the Girls List!
9/12: #23
10/1: SW called, start HS in Nov.
10/27: #19
11/10: Boys' and I had Health Eval.
12/1: #18 on list.
12/7: 1st HS Meeting - Home Visit
12/13: 2nd HS Meeting
12/17: C's Medical Eval.
2009
1/7: #14!
1/30: Training
1/31: Training
3/2: #11!
3/4: Individual Interview's for H.S.
4/1: Lucky #10!
4/10: #9!
4/20: #8!
5/2: Our precious Joye is born!!!
5/8: #7!
6/1: #6
6/9: #5
9/21: #3!!!! Finally moving again!
10/29/2009: REFERRAL!!!!!
11/2: Officially Accepted - Baby Joye is 6 months old!
11/3: Recieved Acceptance Packet from AAC
11/4: Signed and Notarized Acceptance Packet and overnighted BACK to AAC
11/10: Sent First Care Package to AAC for baby sister
11/12: Care package arrives at AAC - ready to ship to Korea
12/5: Recieved updated pictures of our girl and a video.
12/7: State Approval (YAY!)
12/10: Legals!!
12/14: Rec'd Legals in the mail.
12/23: Recieved I-797C
2010
1/7: More pictures!
1/13: Fingerprint Letter!!
1/14: Fingerprints Done.
2/16: I600 Approved! YAY!
2/20: Received I-171H in the mail.
2/22: NVC in!
2/25: NVC out!
2/26: P3 out!
4/16: Signed Class B
5/6: Notified that we were submitted for EP
5/24: P3 Returned and EA
5/25: Visa Interview
6/1: TRAVEL CALL!!!
6/9: Leave for Seoul!!
6/15: "Forever Day" The day we received Joye forever.
6/16: Home from Korea.
6/17: Family Day. The day the boys met baby sister and we became a Family of 5.
11/2: Finalization Day!

There was a man who was walking along a sandy beach where thousands of starfish had been washed up on the shore. As he looked down the beach he noticed a boy picking the starfish one by one and throwing them back into into the ocean. He got closer and called out "Good morning! What are you doing?" The boy paused, looked up and replied, "Throwing strfish in the ocean. If I don't throw them back in they will die." The man said, "Don't you realize that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it? You can't possibly make a difference." The boy listened politely. Then he bent down, picked another starfish and threw it into the sea, past the breaking waves. He looked at the man and said, "It made a difference for that one."
~ from: For His Glory Outreach Website