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We came to Korea to pick our baby girl. And now that we have her, we are ready to go home! My last post tells the story of our first hours with Sarah. As I commented on the previous post, we had a *great* night. Instead of her normal 4:00-5:00 wake-up/feeding, she woke up at … Read more
On Wednesday afternoon, we were taken to meet our baby girl in the home of her foster family. As you may be able to tell from the photo, our meeting with Sarah went very well! The girl who will be called Sarah was very comfortable with us. While our visit with her included the foster … Read more
In case you missed the introduction of Sarah, you’ll need to scroll down or click here. Randy and I actually chose the name Sarah years ago, when we only dreamed of a child. My maternal grandmother’s name is Sarah. And both Randy and I like the name. Ethan Quinn received his name as a parallel … Read more
We learned a long time ago that God rarely does things the easy way in our lives (which is probably true for most people, really). Either that, or we are masochists. For example, we both (separately) pursued bachelor’s and master’s degrees while we were in a denomination that didn’t require higher education (in our pre-UMC … Read more
Joleen wrote Second Impressions earlier. The title was a play on words, based on posts we wrote last time we were here. Since we’re not really restating/rehashing a lot of our impressions, you might want to read/review some of our posts from last time where we reflected on the culture (incidentally, our last trip counted … Read more
We didn’t put the preparation time into this trip like we did the first time around. We never did find our tour books on Korea – probably in some box somewhere. Part of not planning as much lies in the fact that we are relying on our memory of the first trip. Thankfully that has … Read more
In preparation for Ethan’s adoption, we were Sleepless in Pennsylvania. That wasn’t as much the case this time, but after arriving in Seoul last night, and going to bed between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., we both got awake around 1:00 a.m. — and found ourselves sleepless in Korea. After a while (around 3:00 a.m.), I … Read more
We landed in Korea around 4:30 p.m. a few hours ago (Tuesday), which was 3:30 a.m. Eastern Time. We took an hour-and-45-minute bus ride into Seoul and just got settled into our room about a half hour ago (7:30 p.m.), 24 hours after leaving the house. As we stepped off the plane, I said, “In … Read more
Early tomorrow morning, we’ll drive to Dulles International Airport (Washington D.C.) for a 1:25 p.m. takeoff. Fourteen and a half hours later, we are scheduled to land in Incheon International Airport, near Seoul, Korea. This has been an interesting week with, as I’ve said before, mixed emotions. On the one hand, we leave behind the … Read more