Nothing too new going on with us. It was encouraging this past week when another family using our agency received a referral of a little girl! Their homestudy was sent to Korea about three months before their referral. This encourages us because it seems like the timelines we have been quoted all along are actually pretty accurate. They were requesting a girl which typically takes a little bit longer than requesting a boy or in our case "either." So, it looks like if our homestudy EVER makes it to Korea that we are probably looking at 1-2 months from that date until we receive our referral. Thank you for continuing to pray that God will give us patience as we wait!

I talked to our program coordinator in Michigan to check on the status of our homestudy. She said that they had received it, but they needed a few more details added to it so they had emailed it back to our social worker back here. She said that once those remaining details were added it would be on its way to Korea! So, it seems like a good guess that in the next week or so it will actually be on its way overseas! Later this afternoon I talked to our local social worker and she got the remaining details she needed and was getting ready to send it right back to Michigan!! Hooray!

Nothing too much to report...just waiting, waiting, waiting!!! We did meet with our pediatrician today. We were impressed with him and his office. He seemed very down to earth and hopefully will take good care of our baby! We will have a specialist look at our baby's medical file when we are matched. The specialist is a doctor who is very familiar with international adoptions and knows what things to look for when examining babies from other countries. The specialist lives too far away to be our regular doctor, so we thought it would be a good idea to have something set up in our town for when we bring the baby home. Just one more thing accomplished to mark off the list of things to do while we wait and wait and wait!!

Our homestudy is on its way to Michigan! Its next stop will be Korea! Over the next couple of weeks it will be approved by our agency in Michigan and translated into Korean. Then, it will be sent overseas, and we will begin waiting to be matched!

We have continued to make preparations! We bought a rocker/glider yesterday, and it is now in the "nursery." We have found an international adoption specialist/doctor in Concord who is going to read over all of the baby's medical records/history (when we receive our match) and make recommendations.

Thank you for continuing to read our updates! And, thank you also for your continued prayers! Please feel free to leave us comments! We would love to hear from you!

One short update...Our social worker emailed us last night to say she was finished writing up our homestudy!! Hooray! Now, we are waiting for her to have it typed up. Then, we will proof it, and it will be on its way to our agency in Michigan and translated into Korean. One more step closer to bringing our baby home!!

We have had a fun weekend! Friday evening was the middle school dance at my school. I was the teacher in charge, so Michael and I spent Friday evening at the dance. We had a lot of fun! At the end of the evening about 10 of my students called me to the front and presented me with a sweet little baby blanket and a Vera Bradley diaper bag!!!!! The bag was just what I had wanted! I was SO surprised! It is now sitting in the corner of the "nursery" just waiting to be used.

On Saturday Michael and I headed to Babies 'R Us and we began registering! It was SO MUCH fun! We registered for the things we know we will need regardless of the age or gender of our baby; things like carseats, strollers, pack 'n play, washcloths, etc...

No updates on the homestudy, so please continue to pray that it will be finished SOON! Thank you for keeping me, Michael, and "Baby K (for Korea!)" in your prayers.