Closer to Love for Nora

I feel a snow day comin'.....

"she sits in my heart..."

Last night I was giving Nora her bedtime bottle, it is my most favorite time of the day...the room is quiet but I can still hear the older three downstairs in the midst of homework, getting in jammies, having a snack etc...I feel wrapped up in my family and it is a wonderful feeling. Last night we were having a really pretty snowfall, the kind of snow that covers all the pine trees and the fences outside our home and it feels fresh and new....I was looking at Nora and wondering if there were nights in Seoul when the snow fell the same way, nights when she was wrapped up in her Omma's arms as she drifted off to sleep...Nora has been with us for five months and that is how long she was with her foster family when we got her referral.

It must have been bittersweet for her foster mother that day, to know that Nora had a family but to also know that in a few short months she would be placing her in my arms, forever. I hope that once she saw our family pictures and read our letters to her that her heart was comforted with the fact that we would love this child forever and ever...I know that meeting her in Seoul was indescribable for me, I will carry that day with me forever.

As with Nora, Mrs. G. sit in my heart...forever. The picture of Nora is from the very first day we met her, she fell sound asleep in the crib at our hotel.

Kelly