2009!!!!

Happy New Year!!! Joe and I rang in the new year quietly at home due to the snow, but we had a great time. We talked about what a whirlwind year it has been. From the beginning of 2008 when we felt so defeated after seeing the writing on the wall about how long China was really going to take. To listening to our hearts in the spring and realizing maybe our first baby was somewhere else, Korea. To this summer finally being officially waiting. To the best ending ever imagined..... being matched with our beautiful baby boy!!!!! We realized that this year ,2009 ,is when we will hold our baby and become his parents forever. It's such a great feeling, not being certain of the month, yet to be so certain of the year. This is it. 2009 is our year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still can't believe it. I know what your thinking, believe it or your going to be so not prepared. From the preparations, to the trip of a lifetime, to becoming parents, to raising, loving, and getting to know our son, this will be a year to remember. Happy 2009 sweet Jae-min!!!

We would like to also say a happy new year to Ava, our daughter who grows in our hearts. China referrals came in this week and they referred through Feb 28, 2006. So, in all of 2008 they made referrals for just 2 months Jan and Feb of 2006. Doing the math we have 14 months to go to get to us as 5/25/07, and if they referred 2 months a year that would be another 7 years. No one knows what the future holds for any of us. For right now all we know is we have a son waiting for us in Korea and a daughter that we dream of in China.