Mia HaeEun
When Huston was getting close to turning two, we started talking about adoption. How many children did we want to have? We weren't sure, so to make sure we fulfilled our dream of adopting, we decided to adopt our second child. I began researching different agencies and the options of domestic and international adoption. Our first choice was Korean adoption, due to my Korean heritage, but we were not sure we could afford international adoption. Upon further investigation, we realized that the costs for domestic and Korean adoption were very close and decided to proceed with Korean adoption. We chose Dillon International as our agency because they are a Christian agency, they are a leader in the field, and they have a special program for families with Korean Heritage (faster processing time of applications, etc. and shorter overall waiting time for a child). That was the first blessing in this process...Dillon and its staff are excellent! We love our agency and its employees, God definately led us to them.
When Huston was getting close to turning two, we started talking about adoption. How many children did we want to have? We weren't sure, so to make sure we fulfilled our dream of adopting, we decided to adopt our second child. I began researching different agencies and the options of domestic and international adoption. Our first choice was Korean adoption, due to my Korean heritage, but we were not sure we could afford international adoption. Upon further investigation, we realized that the costs for domestic and Korean adoption were very close and decided to proceed with Korean adoption. We chose Dillon International as our agency because they are a Christian agency, they are a leader in the field, and they have a special program for families with Korean Heritage (faster processing time of applications, etc. and shorter overall waiting time for a child). That was the first blessing in this process...Dillon and its staff are excellent! We love our agency and its employees, God definately led us to them.
We officially started the process in March of 2006. It has been quite a ride! Mountains of paperwork, a roller coaster of emotions, classes to attend, interviews to complete, and the worst part of all...WAITING and even MORE WAITING. All of this leading up to the day that every potential adoptive parent waits for...the day you get THE CALL!
In the evening of February 1, 2007 our phone rang, I grabbed the phone and saw "Abilene Christian University" on caller ID. I could barely contain myself enough to answer the phone; our social worker is a professor at Abilene Christian University so my heart lept...could this be THE CALL? It was THE CALL! She said they had a baby girl for us to look at and gave me lots of information about her, the only thing that was wrong with her was a heart murmur. They forwarded her medical information to me and I immediately sent it to our pediatrician for him to look at. This sweet little girl, Hae Eun, was about to turn three months old and after getting opinions from different doctors we decided to wait and see what they found at her three month well check before making a decision. Most importantly, we decided to pray and leave this decision in God's hand. We needed "a sign" to know if this was the daughter God had picked out for us or not. Of course you want to say YES! but you want to make sure this is the best fit for everyone. We prayed that if Hae Eun was to be our daughter that her heart murmur would be the same or better at her checkup. If she was worse, then this was not our daughter and although it would be painful, we would have to turn down the referral. I began praying for God to just heal her and let her be our daughter. I loved her and all I knew about her was the blurb from our social worker and the information on her medical sheet; but I'm a mommy and that's just how we love. The moment I signed the first application, my heart was open to my future daughter and the love was ready to flow.
In the evening of February 1, 2007 our phone rang, I grabbed the phone and saw "Abilene Christian University" on caller ID. I could barely contain myself enough to answer the phone; our social worker is a professor at Abilene Christian University so my heart lept...could this be THE CALL? It was THE CALL! She said they had a baby girl for us to look at and gave me lots of information about her, the only thing that was wrong with her was a heart murmur. They forwarded her medical information to me and I immediately sent it to our pediatrician for him to look at. This sweet little girl, Hae Eun, was about to turn three months old and after getting opinions from different doctors we decided to wait and see what they found at her three month well check before making a decision. Most importantly, we decided to pray and leave this decision in God's hand. We needed "a sign" to know if this was the daughter God had picked out for us or not. Of course you want to say YES! but you want to make sure this is the best fit for everyone. We prayed that if Hae Eun was to be our daughter that her heart murmur would be the same or better at her checkup. If she was worse, then this was not our daughter and although it would be painful, we would have to turn down the referral. I began praying for God to just heal her and let her be our daughter. I loved her and all I knew about her was the blurb from our social worker and the information on her medical sheet; but I'm a mommy and that's just how we love. The moment I signed the first application, my heart was open to my future daughter and the love was ready to flow.
On February 12th, our agency called to let us know that Hae Eun's checkup was excellent and the heart murmur was completely gone! Praise God! I was in awe that God had once again heard our prayers and healed our second child! I immediately said YES and that was the day we became parents to two beautiful children.We had a list of girl names we had picked out while waiting to find out if Huston was a boy or girl. When we went over the list of names, none of them fit this beautiful Korean little girl. We had always liked the name Mia, but had never written it down on THE list or anything. I looked up the meaning of Mia in a baby names book we have and it said it was Italian in origin and meant "mine". That was PERFECT...we knew her name had to be Mia HaeEun. Mia's paperwork came the next day and it was being sent back out the day after that, I couldn't stand the thought of paperwork being in the way of us bringing our daughter home. That's a funny thought, though...once you finish your end of the paperwork, you sit and wait on everyone else to finish their paperwork. In the paperwork package, we also received a short video of Mia...what a wonderful blessing to see her moving, looking around and she even smiled!!! My heart melted. So now all we can do is pray, wait, watch the video, miss her even more and then pray and wait some more!
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