Ketchup With Us #22 - The Adoption Roller Coaster

 

 For the 22nd installment of Ketchup With Us, Mel and Michele have implored us to tell about an experience on a roller coaster, whether literal or figurative. As much as I love roller coasters, I can think of nothing that was more of a roller coaster ride than Joe Sung Min's adoption. With the two year anniversary of his arrival quickly approaching, the memories are flooding back. What started out as smooth sailing ended up with more twists, turns and free falls than anything we'd experienced.  Read on...

We filled out paperwork as we waited in line.

Finally. Our turn.

We climb slowly up the hill, waiting for something. Anything.

“It’s a boy,” we heard as we hurtled toward the loop. Whee!

Suddenly we stopped.
Upside down.

Visa approved. No more passports. What??

Freefall.

Knuckles whitened. We cried, prayed, worried, waited.
We may never get off this ride.

Suddenly we lurch forward, speeding towards the corkscrew and the exit.

Flying to Seoul, meeting his foster family (we love you, Omma and Appa!), joining his birthday celebration.

The long flight home, reuniting as a family of 4, settling in.
The roller coaster is over, the real ride begins.