I can’t believe it’s already May. Pretend it's still January and I'm on top of things. 😬 Every January I do a reflection post on the previous year, but this time around I just couldn’t fathom wrapping 2022 up in a succinct little package of ‘here is what I learned and how I grew’. Instead, I felt more inclined to map out the timeline of our second adoption and how I learned and grew throughout that process. So, this is the story about our big life event that occurred early spring 2022, when we met Bennet. It’s going to be long because I want to preserve the details for myself, before my mom-brain confiscates them and hides them in some back-brain drawer that I’ll never find again, the same place it stored my ability to remember what I did or said 14 minutes ago. Here’s the TLDR (“Too Long Didn’t Read”) synopsis for those who don’t care about details: after 1 year and 3 months of process, we were chosen to parent a second child in March 2022… and then things went sideways for a
May 8, 2011: We took Stella to church with us because we were heading to Colorado Springs afterwards (as in, we went to church and she waited in the car- it was a parking garage so don't worry, she wasn't baking in the car). I suggested we take Stella for a walk down to Confluence Park before we left. She liked the water but didn't want to go out very far so Brian waded out there with her. She kept trying to run back to me and Brian said he was looking for syringes since he was in a 'city river'. Both of them made me laugh.
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