Monday, January 30, 2012

Officially Official

When I think of our adoption day that is the first thing that comes to my mind...officially official. We already felt like a family.  These children felt like ours....they are ours.  I can not imagine loving another human being as much as I love these children.  They feel as much apart of me as if I gave birth to them....heck there are times that I feel that I gave birth to them. These past 10 months that we have had them has definitely been a labor....not because of them....just because all the ups and downs of the case.  So in a sense I look back on this time as my "pregnancy" and then the adoption day as the "delivery"


waiting for the judge


Yesterday we celebrated the whole day.   We were sitting there talking....(well the adults we talking) about how surreal it felt.  I did not feel any different.  The only way I can describe it is kind of like the day I turned 18 or right after I was married in the temple.  The day I turned 18 I did not feel any different. Sure it was a fun day and I had a blast but I still felt like me.  Or right after I got married ( I mean directly after the ceremony) I really did not feel different right away.  Just felt the same.....I loved Milton...I was going to be with him forever anyways....the ceremony just made it officially official.  So that is what it felt like yesterday when the judge declared us a family...We were always a family and were going to always be a family...She just made it officially official.....meaning that if someone tries to take me babies now it is considered kidnapping and I OFFICIALLY have permission to cut them.   Okay enough with the officially.

The actual court proceedings was 5 mins.  We waited over an 1 1/2 to go in. They called our name.  We stepped up right in front judge.  We were sworn in.  They asked Milton to state his full name and then spell it because it was so hard.  Then the lawyer proceeded to ask Milton a million questions but he basically told him how to answer them with the way he questioned Milton...For example...Mr. Timoteo you think it is in the best interest of the child for the birth parent child relationship to be terminated correct?  Milton would then say correct and it went on from there with about 20 questions. Then they looked at me. Asked me to state my name and then asked if I agreed with all my husband's answers. I said yes.  The judge declared us a family and banged her gavel. Then that was it...We were officially official.  Sorry last one.

We celebrated the whole day...we went to breakfast at breadwinners...home for a nap (come on we had been up since 5 am), the American Doll Bistro, then to my friends for a lovely cupcake and ice cream party.

I leave you with this...Since I was not able to document all of our fun this last 10 months. I do plan on doing some retro entries for documentation purposes.  I want to have them written down for memories.