REFERRAL!!! 3/13

March 15, 2008

Well on Thursday March 13, 2008. I received a phone call from our social worker that they had a potential referral for us! She called at 1:19 pm, I was not expecting a referral call because on 3-12 we were just number 3 on the list, needless to say I was ecstatic! I called Jamie at work at he left and came over to my work and we opened up his file on the computer.

It’s hard to describe exactly how I was feeling. I was so excited for us, yet was grieving at his story. How hard is must have been for his birth mother to make an adoption plan. My heart just broke for her, and at the same time was swelling with love for my son that I have yet to hold in my arms.

He was born on September 26, 2007. His name in Korean in Noh, Yeong Min. (Pronounced like No ah ye ong meen.) Noh is his family name (they say it first) and Yeong Min means "WISE JADE" .
We are going to name him NOAH YeongMin Our Last Name. He is VERY CHUNKY.....definately has MY CHIPMUNK CHEEKS lol. We fell in love immediately. Even before we saw his picture.
NOW for the good stuff....

I was thinking back to September 25, (remember they are 14 hours ahead of us) and what I was doing....well, written on my calender it said.....It was the orientation meeting I went to at the adoption agency. The very first one. If you look back on my old blogs I talk about it. It was then that I received the application that I brought home and we mailed on Oct. 1! Who would have thought that while I was gathering the information on adoption, our son was being born!

Then, some of you might know this story. Madison was born on July 5, and they always have a hot air balloon rally here for July 4. So the morning that I went in to labor as we were driving to the hospital it was beautiful because as we were coming into town there were hot air balloons in the air leaving. WELL, yesterday morning on my way to work (same route) there was....you guessed it ONE hot air balloon in the sky! I told a parent when I got to work about how seeing the balloons always makes me think of the day Madison was born. Again, who would have thought that on the day I’ve seen both of my childrens faces for the first time, Hot air balloons would be in the sky, and one of them in MARCH! It’s a little chilly here still!

Those things might not mean much to most people, but it sure did give us PEACE in knowing that we are getting the child that was meant to be ours.

NOAH means PEACEFUL in Hebrew!

GOD TRULY IS AMAZING!!
We can’t post pictures until we sign formal acceptance papers early next week, and once they are signed we will travel in about 3 months to pick him up FOREVER!!

PSALM 139: 13-16
For you created my inmost being you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth your eyes saw my unformed body All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

시편 139
13주께서 내 장부를 지으시며 나의 모태에서 나를 조직하셨나이다
14 내가 주께 감사하옴은 나를 지으심이 신묘막측하심이라 주의 행사가 기이함을 내 영혼이 잘 아나이다
15 내가 은밀한 데서 지음을 받고 땅의 깊은 곳에서 기이하게 지음을 받은 때에 나의 형체가 주의 앞에 숨기우지 못하였나이다
16 내 형질이 이루기 전에 주의 눈이 보셨으며 나를 위하여 정한 날이 하나도 되기 전에 주의 책에 다 기록이 되었나이다