Well this is it!
Today is the day we are officially DONE. There is nothing more to fill out, nothing more to hand in, nothing more to wait for someone to send back to us... every scrap of paperwork is now complete. I drove down to our agency this afternoon, the sun blazing away in a blue, blue sky and I was reminded about a day just like this one, last year when we got the word that we were approved for our line of credit to facilitate the adoption process. It's incredible to think that a year has already gone by. Sometimes it feels like it's flown other times it feels like it's been a looooong time coming, but we are finally here!
I climbed the 3 flights of stairs in the old schoolhouse building with the everlasting scents of floor cleaner and damp cardboard- a smell I still love from my own childhood- and I felt my feet were flying on their own accord. I dropped off the Interpol papers to the fresh-faced summer intern, who had the enthusiam only a student who still believes "they can change the world!" can possess and that was that. On the way down the stairs I couldn't stop smiling. When I got to the bottom a tiny little leaf was on the last step waiting to blow across my toes. I picked it up to keep it as a reminder, it felt like a little sign of a heavenly thumbs-up.
