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2015

Yikes I can not believe it has been almost 2 months since I last posted.  I always swear I'm not going to let this much time past and each time it does.  This entire year has just passed in the blink of an eye.  Our holiday season was busy just like everyone else's but we did have time for some fun.  We took Noah to see a local light display, he went on a train ride with Santa with my parents, niece and nephew.  I got to spend a few days away on a girls trip with my mom right before Thanksgiving to do some shopping at the outlets.  It was nice to be able to do that especially since at this time last year we didn't know how bad her cancer was and what was going to happen.  Joe and I got to go to a Penguins Hockey game and I got to see a friend I haven't seen since my wedding almost 7 years ago.  Which I vow to never let that much time pass again!

I have tried to become more active in the adoption community and trying to help give support to other waiting families and even families who had been placed with.  I am hoping 2015 sees great things with this.  I have also had a great opportunity presented to me that I am so excited to be working on and can't wait to see where it leads and what other opportunities that will come along.

We have Noah's 3rd..yes 3rd birthday coming up at the end of the month.  It just boggles my mind that our baby is going to be 3.  He grew so much over the past few months and has turned into such a little boy.  He talks up a storm and is all boy.  Loves his trucks, blocks, dinosaurs, and trains.  He is also all boy in the aspect he loves to rough house and now has taken to hockey a little bit with using sticks to hit the balls and stuff around the house.  Santa brought him a power wheels quad for Christmas and I am pretty such will be a crazy child on it by summer.

I hope 2014 was a great year for you and 2015 see even better things.  I look forward to staying more active on the blog.  I will leave you with a new picture of our little man!

Love
Melinda

National Adoption Month / Anniversary

It's funny how the emotions of certain days never leave you.  It was 3 years ago today that we were officially matched with Noah's birth mother.   We had been in contact with her for a few weeks but were waiting on the agency to meet with her and get a good feeling of things.  Any match situation is a leap of faith to say the least but to go in and match with a birth mother across the country that you will never meet until the the baby is born 3 months later can be very scary.  The emotions still hit me this time every year like it was just last week.  I was so sure the agency was going to tell us it was a bad idea, that it wouldn't work.  As much as I told myself to guard my heart and not get attached and get our hopes up it was hard not to.  It was an instant connection, an instant feeling this is gonna work, this has to work.  God would not let me get my heart get hurt, and he didn't!
I would lie if I said that I think about him being adopted every single day because I don't.  We spend most days living life like a normal family.  We view Noah's birth family as family members we talk to a few times a week.  I don't say this to make them feel any less or down play their roll, but that is what we are 1 big family.  Then when I least expect it the emotions hit me like a ton a bricks, like when we are spending quiet time before bed, or he give me a hug and kiss and calls me mommy!  I know that my best days are mostly likely her worse days.  She shares the joy of holidays and birthday but I also know they come with pain for her, I would be naive to think they didn't.  But I also know she is at peace with her decision and we have worked to have the relationship we have.
Below are some pictures of Noah celebrating National Adoption Month at his amazing daycare!

Love
Melinda

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