At prayer time tonight… Ty: Jesus, dank you I had… What’s dat called ‘gain, Mom? Me: What is what called again? Ty: Pich Me: Pitch? Ty: No, piiiich (pinching fingers together) Me: Pinch? Ty: No. Missue. Me: Miss Sue? Ty: Yah. Dank you ‘at Miss Sue today. Me: Ooooooh. Speech. Is that what you were...
Category: Adoption and Orphan Care
Mom's Night Out Miracle
I wish I was better at putting down on paper screen how many ways God has shown His faithfulness in our journey to get Grafted Families up and running. But I’m not. So you’ll just have to deal with what I have. I just posted an entry here at our Grafted Families blog about our...
Stepping out in faith
Have you ever felt like God was nudging you in a certain direction? We have. Have you ever felt like going that certain direction was going to be risky (by the world’s view, at least)? We have. Have you ever felt a strange peace about going down the risky path because you understand it’s where...
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Adoption Aside
As Ty picks up more grammar, phraseology, and vocabulary, we are becoming a bilingual family. Our second language is Ty-ese. While receptive and comprehensive abilities have made huge improvements (our therapists and specialists say they’ve never seen such a large jump in such a short period of time…then again, maybe because they’ve never worked with an...
Christmas Came Early
Unlike the processes in many other foreign countries that allow children to be adopted into U.S. families, nothing legal happened while we were in Korea. I mean we didn’t do anything illegal. I just mean we didn’t appear before a judge, there was no courtroom, and no final adoption. We merely gained custody. Maybe the...
Speech Milestones
When I returned home from my weekend away last week, Ty and Patrick were super-excited to show me that they had mastered “bagel” while I was away. “So what?” While Ty’s speech has come very far in the last 6 months, he struggles with poor enunciation. Being smart and strong-willed, he has figured out when...
Light at the end of the tunnel
This morning I filed Ty’s finalization paperwork. For Korean adoptions, one does not adopt in country but Korea actually transfers guardianship to our agency. The actual legal adoption takes place about 6 months after placement. We had our last post placement visit yesterday which allowed us to file today. Now we just sit and pray...