Make Room in Your Life for Wonderful Events

Exactly one year ago today, we received official word that we had been matched for an adoption with a baby boy. With all the paperwork and such that is involved with the legal aspects of an adoption, we weren't able to pick him up for a few weeks. However, I remember this day vividly, because it's also my birthday.

Mixed in with the custody application and other documents we needed to sign was a copy of our son's birth record from the hospital. And, on that birth record, were stamps of his...