SWAK!

When Emerson goes in for her agency visit this month, she's going to have quite a few goodies waiting for her from us!

We sent the first one in March but it got there after she had already gone in for her monthly visit. I was able to send this through a friend of Emerson's foster brother's waiting family.

I sent Emerson some comfy play clothes - mostly leggings since the pants I've seen her in are always rolled up in big wads towards the bottom.

I also sent her a toddler bib that looked gigantic! I was shocked when I opened it all the way. I felt like it was big enough for me to wear - it looked that huge!

But the most important thing in this package was a video we made for her. The last video we sent was back in October so she's probably gotten tired of it by now. In this new video we incorporated pictures of us mingled with those of her foster family. Hopefully this will help her connect us together somehow. We don't want her to feel like we're random people who've shown up out of the blue to take her away from her foster family. Because one of her updates mentioned that she liked to play with dolls we used dolls half the time to tell her that her parents miss her lots!!

Our video co-stars.

Then a few weeks after I sent in our package, my friend Kimberly got her TRAVEL CALL and said she would take a care package for me! (Kimberly's daughter Emersyn - with a "y" - is just a few days apart from EmersOn!). I jumped at the chance to send another package because we had found out right before that Emerson had hurt her finger. This time I sent a normal sized bib along with some ointment and bandaids (along with another pair of leggings).

A picture of us doing the "I love you" sign used for children in Korea.

So I was feeling a bit like a rebel sending these care packages outside of our agency. The policy was that we could only send a package during Christmas and birthdays, and during the two times a year an agency representative would travel to Korea. I actually didn't know this for sure until end of last year when they noted it in a newsletter. But last week they announced that due to the increase in wait time, we would now be allowed to send a package once a month. I hope we are traveling soon, but in the meantime I'm going to start on my package for next month! I already bought two more pair of leggings. :)

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I wanted to say A BIG HUGE thanks to Karen and Kimberly for letting me send a package through and with them this past month. There is something so very special about being able to send a package to our waiting daughter. With each item I touch and put in the gift bag, it brings her just a tad bit closer and helps relieve some of the heartache of being apart.

Also, thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who reached out after reading my last post. I feel extremely blessed to have the support, love, and prayers of so many wonderful people. Thank you!