Dear D,
It’s hard to put days like today into words.
It’s been cancelled at least 3 times.
It’s been promised for over a year.
And today, I held your Daddy’s hand while the judge terminated the rights of your biological parents so that we can adopt you.
The depth and the magnitude of the joy and the sorrow in that sentence will never leave me.
Someday, we’ll talk about it more. Someday we’ll talk about how your biological parents needed help, and loved you- but couldn’t care for you the way that you deserve. Someday we will help you weave together the story that is yours, so that you can make sense of it all.
Today is not that day. You’re only 3 after all.
Today, all you know is that we went to see the judge.
And the judge said that you will be part of our family,
“First, Most, Forever, More.”
And today, that’s all that really matters.
Love,
Mommy
