I guess you can say we have "officially" accepted our son. We sent off all the paperwork to our social worker on Tuesday. It will then be sent to South Korea on Friday. I had a feeling that I didn't expect when I sent it off, sadness. Back to waiting. Only now waiting with a picture I've already come to love. I saw this coming, but not this soon. Having the paperwork to do was something that made me feel like I had some control in bringing him home. Focusing on the next step helps. For us it is to wait for our "legals" from South Korea. That will probably take about 4 weeks. During our 3-6 month wait the governments (his and ours) will be working to issue a visa for him and a passport.
I'm sure it will go faster than I'm anticipating. We have a lot we need to do before he comes. We need to finish his room, buy thank you gifts for people in Korea, get him some clothes, pick out his name.... I've been trying out a few names just to see what seems to fit him. I've been confusing Sean a lot, he says "who?" :-)
They say time flies when you're having fun....then I plan to have A LOT of fun this fall!!
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Cling to the elation of your little boy's referral as long as you can! Definitely use this, the hardest of waits, to get everything in order and buy what you need (and decide on a name!). We also went shopping for a toy every couple weeks for the flight home - that helped a lot.
Yvonne
I stumbled onto your blog from a google search - brings back memories. My children are also Korean, but they're not 19 and 17 (one is in college and one is a senior in high school).
Time has flown, but I remember how hard it was to wait before they arrived. I used the time to read everything I could find on adoption and Korea. It still wasn't enough to prepare me to be the parent of two Korean kids, though, LOL. Some things just have to be learned by experience.
Best to you!!
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