Ashley's Definition of February

Well, February this year meant two things for our family.  #1 Joey and I have officially been together for 10 years! and #2 We get to send another care package to Y!  I'd have to say these events held equal excitement for us!

On Valentine's Day this year, we gussied ourselves up, headed out for a nice, but casual dinner and then headed over to FedEx to drop off a care package for our little guy.  What an appropriate way to celebrate this silly, but special holiday.  At dinner we talked and fantasized about our future.  Having our Y at home with us, having to find a babysitter next Valentine's day, celebrating 20 years as a couple with our eleven year old son one day.  What a wonderful night.  We also reminisced about our past.  We talked about what would have happened if I had left that bowling alley and gone off to sing the national anthem at my highschool basketball game before asking him if we were officially boyfriend and girlfriend.  We even got a special treat out of the fact that in my flurry of frustration to find a nice, but warm outfit for our dinner, I came across the sweater that I was wearing the night we met!  So, sitting in that purple sweater, ten years later, I couldn't help but appreciate the appropriateness that on our way home we were dropping off a care package for our future.

March 2002 - Our first picture together.

We sent him a recordable book where we get to record us reading every page, so that he can hear our voices as he flips through the book.  The book was a wonderful suggestion to us from other adoptive moms.  We greatly enjoyed recording the book and video-taped ourselves doing so, in hopes that one day Y can watch us as we prepared for him to come into our family.

Valentine's Day 2012 - Celebrating 10 years of couple-dom!

Anyway, happy February to everyone!  I hope your month is filled with as many warm memories and as much excited dreaming as ours.  Thanks for reading!

Ashley