| As we talked on the phone the next day, Josh just cried and cried explaining the weight that had been taken off of him. I didn’t even know about that weight! Thank goodness I didn’t, because I would have worried more too, but I also hated that he had been carrying that weight himself.
So for all the days and anniversaries we have to celebrate, we’re adding another to the list. July 31, 2015.
We are seriously going to be that family that has some sort of celebration or anniversary each month. Bring it ON. Praise God for ALL HE HAS DONE!!!
To make things even better, just 3 days after our girl became ours legally, we made a trip to our birth mother and we were able to see her. We had not seen her since Genevieve was just days old.
I plan on writing all about our visit with her in my next post. I love that woman so much.
For now, I just wanted to relish and have this post completely devoted to our baby girl’s officially becoming a Taylor, on her birth certificate, on her social security card—everything.
When the our attorney said that the signing of the paperwork that day made it as if Genevieve was born to me on March 12, 2015, something hit me. I really, at times, feel like she was.
Yes, I saw her be born from another woman’s body. We have her birth on camera. It clearly was not me that gave birth to her! What an incredible moment!
Yes, I know that we do not share the same DNA. Yes, I know that I did not carry her for 9 months. But there are days I forget I didn’t birth her. She is that much a part of me.
Adoption is such a beautiful thing. Talking with our birth mother this past week and seeing the beautiful picture of it all. It truly is something so incredible. So indescribable.
That Genevieve was made to be ours before she was even conceived. Yet, born and conceived by two people that were not Josh and me. It is truly mind bottling. I tell her this all the time, even now, that she was chosen, by God to be His and to be ours. Handpicked.
I am thankful for July 31, 2015, but I am more thankful for a God who ordained her adoption as His child from the beginning of time, and then loved us so much that he ordained her adoption as a Taylor before it was “legal” just last week.
Wow, wow, wow. I can’t really even comprehend it all. But all I do know is that God loves me so so much. He loves you more than we could ever know. That He would love our Genevieve so much to give her to us and that He would love us so much to give us to her.
Rest in God’s love today. Know that He is doing so much behind the scenes right now.
You are so incredibly loved. Genevieve’s adoption has reminded me of the depth, height, and never-ending distance of His love for His children.
John 3:1 “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!”
Grateful,
Aly
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