One year!

Today is exactly one year since we received the phone call that would change our lives forever. I was sitting at work not really thinking about anything other than the Christmas break coming up when my cell rang. It was a SD number. This was not anything super surprising since we had been talking back and forth with different case workers in SD for a long time. But when I answered, not only was Tyler on the phone but his supervisor was as well. Thinking that we had made it to the next round of interviews with an adoption I was ready to answer a ton of questions in front of another panel of people. Wrong! They told me that there was not going to be another round of interviews and that we had been selected as the family for a precious little boy! I immediately called TJ. We both sat there quiet for several minutes. It was the call that we had been waiting for for so long. It was hard to understand that it had really happened and to a little boy that was so healthy with no serious issues. Our dream child. The child that we had prayed for for so long. The little boy that immediately felt like our son. After I called TJ I called Alison. I knew that my mom was in class and couldn't answer so I called the person I knew would totally understand what we were feeling. She cried with me and then we went into planning mode. We did not know exactly when we would be able to go pick up J but we knew that it would not be long. We had so much to do in such a little amount of time.
When I got home that night TJ and I immediately went shopping. We didn't know what J would come home with but knew that we wanted him to have a complete room with new clothes and toys waiting for him when he got to his new house.
Now we are a year past that phone call. The end of Jan will be one year since we left to go get J and Feb 2 will be our Gotcha Day. It is crazy what all has happened in that one year time span. How much our little guy has gone from a toddler into a real little boy. How much we have done as a family, how much TJ and I have grown. The love that we have between the 2 of us and the bond that is almost fully there. I cannot imagine not having Jerrett in our lives. God created this little boy just for me and TJ. We went through a lot of heartache in order to bring him into our lives but it is worth it. We are a forever family the way that God intended. We are a family of 3, soon to be 4, a very blessed little family unit who loves, laughs, and lives our lives together. We will continue to grow, the bond will continue to get stronger, the attachment more secure, and love will also continue to grow. We will serve God and live our lives for Him each and every day. Jerrett is an answer to so many prayers and we are so happy that he is with us. We are blessed.