So a few months back, I met a gal on one of the adoption message boards I like to visit. I found out that she also is in the process of adopting from Korea through Bethany--and she and her DH don't live very far from us. And--get this--her DH is Korean, and she is from ... Tennessee! How cool is that!?
After e-mailing a few times, we met in person at a Starbucks inside Target and hit it off. We talked and talked and talked while I fed Kate M&Ms (why didn't I bring the DVD player?). We really do have so much in common, so the conversation came quite easily. We've stayed in touch since and finally got our husbands to meet over the weekend when they came over for dinner.
Amy (oh yeah--her name is Amy, and her husband is Sam) is a very talented baker. (You totally need to check out her site.) She brought this rockin' and very delicious pound cake the other night. The photos do not do it justice. It's completely from scratch, all her own recipes. If I make brownies from a box, I call that one of my overachieving moments. hahaha
Yummmmmmmmm
Tanna prepared some kalbi. I tried to get some good photos so he could share his recipe. Oh yeah--I could not find my camera at the beginning of the evening, so I was freaking out on the inside. I seriously have anxiety when I cannot find the camera. This happened back in January when we were in California, and I tried not to make it obvious ... but I was freaking out then, too. Fortunately, I found it the next morning in a bag of toys. But I digress ... I found my camera the other night, too, just in the nick of time. Yay! (By the way, don't you love how you can see the toilet in the background of the photo of us? It kind of looks like it's just sitting there by the stairs. I need to remember to close that bathroom door so people don't have to look at the toilet while they are sitting at the table. Sorry about that!)
Oh yeah--the menu also included sperm sprouts (kongnamul, but I think they look like sperm, so I call them sperm sprouts), lettuce, rice, kimchi, the usual. It was good, and we ate a lot. Kate was pretty well-behaved (for the most part), especially after not sleeping during her naptime that day. She actually ate at the other table and watched DVDs without too much interruption. She did share a shrimp chip or two with Mr. Sam and Mrs. Amy--you can see one in Sam's hand in the above photo. :o)
We are so thankful for the new friends God has placed in our lives. It is so nice to share this adoption journey with folks who understand the process so well. It's also really neat to find folks so close to us with whom we share so much in common. Oh yeah, I should mention that in photos Sam takes a traditional Korean-man pose (no smile)--a practice also popular with Tanna's dad. But I caught a smile or two. (See the above photo with Kate.) I have a feeling when they welcome their child home, Sam will be grinning ear-to-ear in all the pictures. :o)
Thanks again for coming over! Hope to see you again soon!
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