January 31, 2006
A year ago
One year ago today, we drove past our precious son's school, knowing he was inside, wondering if he was thinking about our hugs good-bye that morning. Neither of us spoke. We were leaving him in the gentle care of my sister and her family, but it is so hard to leave a child behind. We were nervous, anxious, wondering if we were crazy to do this. What were we thinking?
We boarded a plane for Amsterdam, then Ukraine. We didn't know that the expected three-week adoption journey would turn into five weeks with frustrating delays of paperwork and approvals. We didn't know what our fate would hold. We met a little girl seven days later who was meant to be our daughter. We weren't crazy after all.
Posted by Laura at January 31, 2006 09:28 AMPosted to Tara's Story
Nope! Not crazy! She's a jewel. Austin's pretty cute too. ;-)
Posted by: sally at January 31, 2006 11:42 AMI will never forget, as long as I live, the sight of Austin at my computer, seeing Tara's face for the first time. Sometimes we focus so much on the bad and tragic things in life, we foget the joys and ecstasies, the mysteries of the human heart. I hate to keep waxing so corny, but my heart exploded when Tara's face appeared on the screen. Austin knew. We all just knew.
Posted by: karen wiz at February 2, 2006 07:52 PM