Only Hours Left....

It's 10:20am in Korea right now...and the countdown has begun.

Only 2 hours and 40 minutes until we go to pick up Cora. I can hardly believe it. We are off the the E-Mart to pick up some food for tonight to eat in our room as well as a few familiar snacks for Jihee. This just might be our last excursion here in Korea other than heading to the airport tomorrow so we better get as much fresh air as we can now.

The nerves are starting...

The excitment is building...

...and yet...there's something...

Cora is going to be seeing her korean family for the last time today. She doesn't even know it's coming or can understand what it's all about. She doesn't know her fostermama is about to say "good-bye". And that, my friends, is one of the down sides of adoption. It's another loss that my baby is going to have to endure. It's another hole that is going to be left in her heart.

As her mother, I am excited to call her my own, to take her home, to watch her grow up, to care for her and love her...but this is when a mother's heart isn't 100% full of excitment. I can't even begin to understand what she is about to go through and what she has already endured in her short little 9 months on this earth. My heart aches for my daughter. I'm on a wicked rollercoaster of emotion. Please say a prayer for Cora as her world is about to be turned upside-down and inside-out.