Are we beginning AGAIN?!
(Warning this is a picture heavy post) Well, our precious little girl is now 1 year old! I can not believe how fast time has flown. Just a short year ago (actually 13 months ago now) I received a message that would change the lives of my family forever. My husband, Derek, and I sat back and reflected on those events the other day together. Just remembering the frantic phone call to an adoption attorney and domestic adoption agency - we had to COMPLETELY switch gears after all as everything we had done over the proceeding year had been in prep for an International adoption and now we were pursuing a domestic one - and how nervous we really were about everything. How we couldn't even believe that we were being offered a baby and that I would be seeing/meeting the birth mom (and our unborn baby girl via ultrasound!) just one short day after speaking to her on the phone. Less than 2 weeks later we would literally be holding our baby girl in our arms. This is the kind of t...