Well last Saturday(Nov 3rd, 2012) we celebrated our 4 year anniversary of our referral of Hayden. 4 years ago I sat at my desk in an orange skirt with a white t-shirt, it was a warm that day and we were one day shy of election day that year. I was working on my computer and it was about 5:25 p.m. and David was not home from the office yet. My cell phone rang and I saw on my screen that it was Tien from our agency. I knew exactly why she was calling. We had been at the top of the list for 3 weeks and I had been trying to wait patiently for "the call" and it was finally happening. I knew I was mere minutes from seeing our daughter's face for the very first time. I had promised myself that I would wait for David to get home if he wasn't there....I knew in that instant I would not be waiting:) LOL
When I answered Tien spoke just as you would expect someone that had made this call hundreds of times. She said I think I have some very important information you have been waiting for.....I said YES I think you do! She said well I am looking at a beautiful 6 week old baby girl that I think you would like to take a look at.....I have emailed you the pictures. As we talked I opened my email and this was the picture I first saw......it was LOVE at first site and I knew she was the ONE I had been waiting for all these years.
That was a very overwhelming experience and one that I WILL never forget. I can remember everything from that day. Hayden will say this is the day you started loving me mommy. Little does she know that I had started loving her long ago, but now I had a face to go with that love. I will never know what it is like to give birth to a baby; some of you will never know what it is to receive your baby's picture via email and love them from thousands of miles away. But what I will say is that is a moment that changed my life forever and I would NEVER trade that moment, that phone call, that first picture FOR ANYTHING. At that moment I looked into those eyes and Hayden Magee had my heart forever. She was everything that I had ever dreamt of and she was my wish come true.
We started our adoption process in April of 2006 and I started blogging in July of 2006 so over 6 years ago. Blogging has been a very important record of the events of the last 6 years. It has documented our adoption journey, it has marked and recorded happy events, sad events. It has brought us lifelong friends that I have met and some I hope to still meet. I hope that Hayden will someday look back and read the record of our life before her, life once we had her picture and our life once we had her in our arms. I hope she can read my writing and the lovely comments that have been made and smile and know how many people she has touched and how many people love her both close and from afar.
I think we have reached the end of our journey being marked by blogging. I guess I will really have to start scrapbooking like I did for my big kids. So many of you I am friends with you on FB and obviously you will still be baby spammed by me:) If you aren't friends with me and have followed along....then by all means send me a friend request and let me know that you followed me on our blog. I want to thank you all for being a part of our lives, being a huge support system during some really difficult months and years of waiting. I thank so many of you for your friendship.....there are many of you that have become a part of our everyday and for that I am thankful. So I bid you all farewell. If you are still waiting for your child....hang in there, your turn will come, and it will be worth EVERY PAINFUL minute of waiting. For those of you home with your blessings.....then you know....it just doesn't get any better than what we have been given<3 a="a" like="like" love="love" no="no" other="other" p="p">
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But as they say in Taiwan
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