Thanks Grandpa

I am dedicating this entry to one of the my most favorite men, unfortunately he has been gone for about 21 years now but I think of him often and miss him very much.

So, my grandpa was this awesome man, he fought in WWII, he was a prisoner of war, he was lucky to survive. His best friend and him dug their way out with a spoon, one ran one way and one ran the other. They made a pact, if one heard any shots fired or anything, they would keep running and not look back. My grandpa made it out alive, his friend was not so lucky.

This was a man that adopted my mom and uncle, he was an upstanding person. He believed in helping others but also believed that people had to help themselves so, his generosity would only carry you so far, what you did after that was up to YOU. I LOVED this man, I never knew he was not my biological grandfather until after he passed, he thought if we knew, we might somehow love him different?

Today is his "real" birthday, his records were switched somehow when he was young so not until many years later did he find out that today was his "real" birthday. This is something not a lot of people knew so this is why I know his hand is in our adoption.

Today, I got a call from our agency in NY (SC) and they said our paperwork was in Korea and we are "officially" in line!! Yipee!! I of course ask, how long is the wait. They explained it was a case by case situation so depending on what medical needs we put down for consideration and the babies available, it could at just about anytime to 6 months if things stay at a constant with Korea. With an average being 4-5 months. Then it could be 2-4 months to travel with 3 months being the most likely.

So...... I am thinking anywhere between the next 6-9 months, we should be staring into our new babies eyes and holding him in our arms.

As I was thinking about the conversation with the agency and the date, I had flash backs of my wonderful grandfather. When I was little, he use to set me in his lap and ride the tractor around the yard with me. He used to get the lollipops that were together with wrappers so it made like a string of lollipops, he would neatly fold them and put them in his shirt pocket with one dangling out. The highlight of his day and my sister's and I were when we would go over to their house and see those suckers, we would pull on the first one and they would just keep coming out of his pocket, our eyes would get real big. You would of thought we found a pot of gold, we ended up with about 12 suckers.

Anyway, Grandpa, thank you for the memories and I could never of loved you any less, you were my inspiration, my protector, my hero. I love and miss you, this baby will know about you and thank you for helping God and having a hand in this adoption. I know you are working your magic from the other side!! Love always, your little girl!!