One Year Ago Today

Just for reflection, I looked at my calender for last year around the day he was born. It was really humbling to put myself back there. I looked back at some of the events I did just a week or two before the baby was born, things like a high school reunion and a camping trip, and remember both how fun they were and how bittersweet it was, as was everything fun I did while waiting for baby. The weekend before he was born, I have a very strong memory of going to a church carnival and seeing a young mom complaining, which had me feeling really cranky and sorry for myself. The night before he was born was just a boring night at home, with the regular chores. The morning he was born, I was, most likely, praying for his as-yet-unknown birth family, daydreaming about being a mom, and feeling sorry for myself for waiting yet another day to be chosen. I had no idea that my life was being rewritten as I got ready for yet another ordinary day of work.

One funny coincidence was that I wrote "Adoption Event" for the evening of the day we brought him home. I can't remember what that was, but obviously we didn't attend because we had an adoption event of our own that day!

Here is a short video slide show of his 12-month photos: