Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Merry Christmas Eve !!!!
I hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas Eve. Obviously, I feel that our referral of Riley is the best Christmas gift that we could have possibly received. God has truly blessed us in many aspects of our lives, and soon will bless us even more abundantly when we get our son home. I just can't wait to have him in our arms. I pray that he is enjoying his first Christmas is Korea. It is actually Christmas morning there now. I pray that he and his foster family have a blessed Christmas!!!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
More Pictures!!!!!
These are some pictures of Riley when he was younger. I assume they were at least a couple of months ago.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Details!!!
Hey everyone!!! Well, I'm still on cloud nine!!!!! I don't expect to come down anytime soon!!! Isn't our son so-oooooooo cute. I just sit and stare at those big brown eyes. Also, we finally decided on a name-- Riley Chiogang Stinson. We are keeping is given Korean name as his middle name.
I'm am sure that I have talked to many of you about the details of my referral day, but there are many others that read this blog too. Well.......... I'll start with the night before. Last Wednesday night, I was doing my typical internet searching that I do every single night, reading all the adoption forums that I am on and reading other people's blogs. On one forum, there had been four people that received referrals for baby girls. I was thinking how much I wanted a referral!!! I also told Troy about all the referrals and he said "What about us?". I had been praying basically every morning that a referral would come soon for us.
So.... I was at work on Thursday and was just about to go in and see my first patient (for those of you that don't know, I am a Nurse Practitioner). My nurse answered the phone about 1 pm and said I had a call from Julie (the name of my social worker). Well, I thought I would pass out!!!! Many of the details from here on out are quite sketchy because I think I must have been low on oxygen or something :). I turned around to answer the phone I am remember stopping for a minute and shaking my hands. I remember that when I answered, Julie asked me if it was a good time. LIKE I WAS GOING TO SAY NO!! She said we had a referral for a baby boy, and I immediately started crying like a baby. I didn't hear much else except that his birthday was May 22nd and that is was one of the "cleanest" referrals she had received, meaning he was very healthy. Later, I found the post-it note that I had written on while I was talking to her and the only things it said was "May 22, boy, clean". How funny that seemed. At least I didn't get a dirty baby!!!!
Anyway, we agreed on a time to meet that night so we could pick up his pictures and information. I then immediately called Troy. I was crying so hard that he couldn't understand me and thought that something was wrong and that I had a wreck or something. After I finally got it through to him, I think he just said "Really, really". After that, I have no recollection of the rest of our converstion. I then called my mom, my friend Angie, and texted my sister-n-law. Of course all the girls in the office had figured it out and most were crying too!!! Dr. Cook (my boss) said when he came out of his patient's room, he thought we had a hostage situation or something because everyone was crying!!
After I floated through the rest of the afternoon, trying to see patients, me, Troy, and my mom headed to Danville to meet with Julie. I think that was the longest drive ever!!!!!!! We had about 3 hours to spare so we stopped and shopped at JCPenny and Peebles. Actually, that was the first baby things I had ever purchased. I had decided not to buy anything until we received a referral. We bought some clothes and toys.
After we finally made it to Julie's, it was such as experience to see Riley's sweet face. Troy told me later he was almost afraid to look at the picture for some reason. I basically heard nothing that Julie said that night because I was just looking at those big brown eyes!!!!!! After we left, we ended up going to Walgreens to copy the pictures so we could all have some the next day. By this time it was after 11pm and we were all exhausted. It was probably around midnight by the time we went to bed. Of course, I put his picture on my nightstand that night. My mom however, who spent the night with us, slept hugging his picture. By the way, this is her first grandchild.
Well, that is a not so quick run down of our referral day. I will probably have more pictures to post of Riley and some other pictures as well, but I think I may do that tomorrow. I have typed so much my hands are really hurting!!!
Thanks so much for all the comments on these posts. I am going to try and print them off to put in a scrapbook!!!
More later,
Angie (Riley's Mom)
I'm am sure that I have talked to many of you about the details of my referral day, but there are many others that read this blog too. Well.......... I'll start with the night before. Last Wednesday night, I was doing my typical internet searching that I do every single night, reading all the adoption forums that I am on and reading other people's blogs. On one forum, there had been four people that received referrals for baby girls. I was thinking how much I wanted a referral!!! I also told Troy about all the referrals and he said "What about us?". I had been praying basically every morning that a referral would come soon for us.
So.... I was at work on Thursday and was just about to go in and see my first patient (for those of you that don't know, I am a Nurse Practitioner). My nurse answered the phone about 1 pm and said I had a call from Julie (the name of my social worker). Well, I thought I would pass out!!!! Many of the details from here on out are quite sketchy because I think I must have been low on oxygen or something :). I turned around to answer the phone I am remember stopping for a minute and shaking my hands. I remember that when I answered, Julie asked me if it was a good time. LIKE I WAS GOING TO SAY NO!! She said we had a referral for a baby boy, and I immediately started crying like a baby. I didn't hear much else except that his birthday was May 22nd and that is was one of the "cleanest" referrals she had received, meaning he was very healthy. Later, I found the post-it note that I had written on while I was talking to her and the only things it said was "May 22, boy, clean". How funny that seemed. At least I didn't get a dirty baby!!!!
Anyway, we agreed on a time to meet that night so we could pick up his pictures and information. I then immediately called Troy. I was crying so hard that he couldn't understand me and thought that something was wrong and that I had a wreck or something. After I finally got it through to him, I think he just said "Really, really". After that, I have no recollection of the rest of our converstion. I then called my mom, my friend Angie, and texted my sister-n-law. Of course all the girls in the office had figured it out and most were crying too!!! Dr. Cook (my boss) said when he came out of his patient's room, he thought we had a hostage situation or something because everyone was crying!!
After I floated through the rest of the afternoon, trying to see patients, me, Troy, and my mom headed to Danville to meet with Julie. I think that was the longest drive ever!!!!!!! We had about 3 hours to spare so we stopped and shopped at JCPenny and Peebles. Actually, that was the first baby things I had ever purchased. I had decided not to buy anything until we received a referral. We bought some clothes and toys.
After we finally made it to Julie's, it was such as experience to see Riley's sweet face. Troy told me later he was almost afraid to look at the picture for some reason. I basically heard nothing that Julie said that night because I was just looking at those big brown eyes!!!!!! After we left, we ended up going to Walgreens to copy the pictures so we could all have some the next day. By this time it was after 11pm and we were all exhausted. It was probably around midnight by the time we went to bed. Of course, I put his picture on my nightstand that night. My mom however, who spent the night with us, slept hugging his picture. By the way, this is her first grandchild.
Well, that is a not so quick run down of our referral day. I will probably have more pictures to post of Riley and some other pictures as well, but I think I may do that tomorrow. I have typed so much my hands are really hurting!!!
Thanks so much for all the comments on these posts. I am going to try and print them off to put in a scrapbook!!!
More later,
Angie (Riley's Mom)
Friday, December 12, 2008
REFFERAL!!!!!!!
PRAISE GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We got the call at 1:00 pm yesterday for a referral of a healthy baby boy!!!!! We went last night and picked up his information and pictures. He is so-oooooooooooo beautiful.
I'll just post the pictures for now and will add more details later!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Angie
We got the call at 1:00 pm yesterday for a referral of a healthy baby boy!!!!! We went last night and picked up his information and pictures. He is so-oooooooooooo beautiful.
I'll just post the pictures for now and will add more details later!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Angie
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Looking forward to future Holidays!!!!
Well, I am officially in the Christmas Spirit!!!! I have much of my Christmas shopping done and today I put up my tree!!!!!!! While putting up my tree, I was thinking about how much different that next Christmas will be--hopefully!!! Now, when I put up my tree, I usually do it alone. Not that Troy doesn't want to help, but I usually do it when he is not home. It's fun, but-----I starting thinking about how much more fun it will be when I have my little one wanting to help!!! I have so many memories of helping my mom put up our tree when I was little, and I want to make memories with my own child(ren)!!!!!
Angie
Angie
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Just an Update
Hello!!!!! Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
I sure haven't kept this blog up to date like I hoped to!!!!! I can't believe this is my first official post. Anyway, I guess a few things have happened!!! We are offically HSTK!!! For those of you who not adopters or adoptees, that means Home Study to Korea. Our paperwork was sent on September 25th. We have offically been waiting for our referral 9 weeks today!!! From alot of other things I have been reading on the adoption forums that I follow, a referral could potentially happen soon!! There are 4 other families, all from Kentucky, that are using my same agency that haven gotten referrals with 8 to 10 weeks. However, I am going to try and not get my hopes up. The agency still says the wait time right now is about 5 to 6 months.
Also, my adoption is not a secret now. Not that is was ever a real secret, but I just hadn't told alot of people. I found out that more people knew than I thought, so I went ahead and told everyone!!!!!! I was actually wanting to tell the world!!! My mom was going to have a heart attack if she didn't tell someone soon, so she was also glad that I wasn't a secret anymore.
Hopefully more news later!!!!
Angie
I sure haven't kept this blog up to date like I hoped to!!!!! I can't believe this is my first official post. Anyway, I guess a few things have happened!!! We are offically HSTK!!! For those of you who not adopters or adoptees, that means Home Study to Korea. Our paperwork was sent on September 25th. We have offically been waiting for our referral 9 weeks today!!! From alot of other things I have been reading on the adoption forums that I follow, a referral could potentially happen soon!! There are 4 other families, all from Kentucky, that are using my same agency that haven gotten referrals with 8 to 10 weeks. However, I am going to try and not get my hopes up. The agency still says the wait time right now is about 5 to 6 months.
Also, my adoption is not a secret now. Not that is was ever a real secret, but I just hadn't told alot of people. I found out that more people knew than I thought, so I went ahead and told everyone!!!!!! I was actually wanting to tell the world!!! My mom was going to have a heart attack if she didn't tell someone soon, so she was also glad that I wasn't a secret anymore.
Hopefully more news later!!!!
Angie
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