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This is a post I was hoping *not* to repeat! Twenty-four hours after we got home with Ethan in February 2008, Joleen and I got the flu (in my case, it was the worst that I remember having). We wrote, Pray for Ethan, with the hopes that he wouldn’t get sick. And he didn’t. Yesterday, … Read more
My favorite posts to write are the ones that almost write themselves. They’re fairly short and to-the-point and they come together quickly (in fact, my favorite posts on the blog are 1,000 Words and Introducing … Sarah!, neither of which include any words, only a single photo each). This is not one of those posts. … Read more
We arrived home late this afternoon, 25 hours after getting up this morning in Seoul, Korea. Everything went as scheduled, and getting through immigration in Korea or customs in the US was a very smooth process. Sarah handled the trip very well, in spite of some pretty heavy and lengthy turbulence during the flight. Sarah’s … Read more
It’s 6:45 a.m. in Korea and we’ll soon be on our way home! Once Sarah got to sleep last night (which took a while), she slept all night long (which is better than Joleen and I did!). She woke up a few minutes ago and is content to hang out in the crib while we … Read more
A lot has happened in the last few days. We’ve introduced our new baby girl, Sarah, to the world, shortly after meeting her, ourselves. We’ve written about the beginning of Sarah’s transition into our family (which will continue over the weeks and months to come), continued in a post about being ready to go home. … Read more
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
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