We were SO excited when my Orlando-based company announced they would be flying all employees and their families to Orlando to celebrate our BIG year at the company with a trip to Disney! For one, we had seen the prices at Disney and had pretty...
Note: This post is part of our full Korea Adoption: Guide to Seoul. Packing was seriously one of the most stressful parts of traveling to Seoul, and it’s still one of the most asked questions we get via our blog! Especially as first-time parents, we really had...
Note: This post is part of our full Korea Adoption: Guide to Seoul. It is customary to give gifts to the important people in your adoption process, and for us, it was also a tangible way to show the family who loved our son for the first...
Note: This post is part of our full Korea Adoption: Guide to Seoul. Seoul is a bustling, exciting city with so many things to do and see and experience! And I’ve heard the rest of South Korea, if you get a chance to explore outside of Seoul,...
Note: This post is part of our full Korea Adoption: Guide to Seoul. We absolutely fell in love with the Korean culture during our adoption process, and Seoul is truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience. That said, we certainly had a steep learning curve at times as we immersed...
Note: This post is part of our full Korea Adoption: Guide to Seoul. Brian and I are somewhat familiar with traveling internationally, as we had recently planned and experienced trips to Iceland, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Caribbean. However, when it came time to plan for Seoul,...
Note: This post is part of our full Korea Adoption: Guide to Seoul. For most families adopting from Korea, you’ll get about two hours with your foster family. Two very special, incredibly sacred, and totally amazing hours! I promise you, those two hours will be the fastest...
Christmas at Dollywood has always been my very favorite tradition, because it’s all the warm and fuzzy feelings about Christmas wrapped up into my favorite weekend every year. I told Brian at the very beginning of our adoption process that I would be happy once...
At the end of October, we set out for our first big road trip as a family of three! It took us 12 hours to get from Kentucky to our AirBNB in Arlington, Virginia, but Gideon was such a trooper, spending the whole time watching...
THURSDAY, APRIL 5 Our day started downstairs with breakfast again. We put Gideon in a high chair for the first time, and he was not a fan. So we scarfed down a bowl of cereal and headed back to the playroom. Except this morning, Gideon started...