I wish I was kidding about the size of the tree. Unfortunately, I'm not! Why is it that when you're at the Christmas Tree Farm and looking at all the trees standing out in the field they look like a reasonable shape and size...then somehow on the way back to your house they grow exponentially??? We literally had to move furniture out of the Living Room to fit the tree in! We know we live in a teeny tiny Cape Cod so how we miscalculated so badly is anyone's guess. I think that Tony and I were both just so excited to have Lily with us that our common sense took a vacation!
When we started the adoption process to bring Lily home it was October of 2004. We shared our plans with our families that Christmas. Naturally, we had no way of knowing how long the wait would become or we might have kept the wonderful news to ourselves a little longer.
In October 2005, we were finally logged in with the China Center of Adoption Affairs and our dream of becoming a family of three appeared closer to reality. To remember what we thought would be our last childless Christmas we had a Christmas ornament made that read, "Waiting For Lily - 2005". Little did we know at the time we would still be waiting at Christmas 2006...so, we had another ornament made that reads, "Still Waiting For Lily - 2006". We are planning to go together this week to have an ornament made for this year. I've been trying to think of what to have written on it. Right now I'm thinking it will read, "Home At Last - Lily 2007". I think we'll also get one for celebrating our first Christmas as a family of 3!
This morning the three of us decorated our tree. Lily was far more interested in the bubble wrap that some of the ornaments were wrapped in then with the decorating process itself but it was so wonderful to have her here with us! Watching Lily help Tony put the angel on top of the tree actually gave me goosebumps.
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I still remember that first Christmas we adopted. Geoff was due in early January. WRONG! He arrived December 9th and we took him home three days later. Of course the nursery had to be assembled at breakneck speed, but all our family pitched in and it was ready when Geoff came home. I honestly don't remember how we got Christmas together that year, but I do remember holding Geoff in my arms on Christmas Eve at church, carrying him into Mimi Borowski, and smiling a WHOLE lot that Christmas. So glad to see you finally getting that experience, too. ENJOY!
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