One Year Ago...
One year ago today I was sitting in a staff meeting.  I wasn't listening, well not to the principal anyways.  I was listening for the little buzzing noise that sounds just before an announcement is made on the school wide system.  I was dying inside waiting to hear that the phone had rung.

All day long I smiled at the students as they started their year, greeted the teachers with more of the same "Any day now" answers to their adoption time line questions.  And I worried.  I fretted.  Was there something wrong with the paperwork that had arrived over the weekend?  Was there an unexpected delay, again?  I had been told that a call was coming and yet the phone didn't ring...all...day...long...and then I was trapped in a meeting hearing about upcoming events that I simply didn't want to participate in.  That meeting was unbelievably painful.  And never ending.

And then it ended.
And I headed to the dreaded library to get my purse and took a quick peek into my email and there it was...
Congratulations on the referral of your son.
I couldn't get the photo to open.  I couldn't peek to see if it was the same baby boy whose photos I had been memorizing for months while I waited for everything to be official.  So I did what anyone would do and went to the principal's office where I saw the official referral photo of my sweet baby boy while surrounded by dear friends and colleagues.

And today, to celebrate 1 year later, I got to miss that September 2nd meeting and spent my day staring at the real thing.