Two Years Ago
It’s been two years since we first saw Lina’s face. I will always remember the moment I looked at her photo for the first time. Something solid and smooth shifted into place. She became part of me then, but there was also an echo of something very familiar… as if I’d always known her.
She’s become very interested in the photos of the day we met her. She wants to look at them again and again. I’m now able to tell her about that day without weeping, but it used to be that I’d cry every time. The emotion associated with taking that little pink bundle into my arms has barely receded. The most powerful and beautiful thing I’ve ever experienced. By far.
She is my treasure. My wildgirl. My sunshine. How all the probabilities in my life summed up to this, I don’t know. But I’ll take it, and continue to feel like the luckiest mama ever.