Remembering Foster Family....

This picture gives me many of emotions that come flooding in....First let me tell you that Grace's foster family in Korea was great, they were an answer to our prayers for Gracie! They loved her like their very own. One of the foster sisters made a photo album for Grace. ..we keep it on our shelf and share it with Grace and many of our family and friends. Grace seemed interested in playing with the photos the other day, so I opened the book for her to see. I was amazed by her reaction and you can see I captured the moment on camera. Her look tells it all. Do babies remember? Well some experts may say no, but I say yes they do for a time! This brings feelings of happiness and yet tears to my eyes to see her look or remember them. What does she think? What does she feel? All I could do is hug and kiss our sweet liittle girl and tell her how wonderful they were to her. ..and that mommy and daddy love you so much! She did not look at them long, before she continued about her business playing with all her toys. But this really was a neat and special moment that I was able to share with her. It really made me remember....

When Grace had her first night home, she called out for her Omma (mommy in Korea) I will never forget the helpless feelings I had at that moment. As happy as I was to finally hold our baby, at the same time I'd felt deeply like we had done something wrong. I hurt for my daughter, I felt like we took her from her family. They loved her so much her first 8 months of life, they gave her the best possible start. I know it was hard on the family also to say goodbye to her, especially the foster mother. Terry had to remind me over and over again that if they had wanted to keep her and adopt her themselves that they would have been able to. They would have definetly had first choice to do so, if they wanted to. He had to remind me that they knew it was only for a time that they would nurture our sweet little baby, and that this was an answer to our many many prayers. We prayed that our baby would be in the care of a foster family that would love her completly...God did answer our prayers in a big way. It helped me to realize how much God kept watch over Grace just like we asked him to do. ...God had a big plan, and that was for Grace to be with us forever! She is so precious to us all and we love her so very very much. Now she has been home 6 weeks and I am so thankful that we listened to that call from God to go and adopt! Now we have our Grace...Our Gift From God!