Mother's Day

Mother's Day has become a special day for me for some years now and today was no different. I was actually due on May 14th, which happened to be Mother's Day in 1995 with Dayton. I remember wondering if I would be a mommy or not on Mother's Day. Dayton was born 2 weeks early on May 1st so yes, I was an official mommy 11 years ago. This year I also had wondered if I would be Myah's mommy on Mother's Day. Unlike her brother, she didn' t come early! Nonetheless, I feel like I am her mother. I might not have woke up this morning to my son and daughter showering me with hugs and kisses, but I still felt a connection to her. Mark bought me a beautiful necklace that I have been eyeing for quite a few months from Red Envelope. It has a pearl and silver pendant. The pearl piece is on top and has the symbols for mother and daughter in Chinese and the underlayer is silver and it says mother and daughter in English. We are getting closer and closer to meeting Myah and I feel like there is less distance between us every day. She is in my heart, sometimes my heart actually pounds harder when I am thinking about her. I know that God has placed us together and I know that somewhere she is feeling my love for her in her heart also. So much has happened over the past two weeks since we received her referral. We had more paperwork to send in to make this official. It seemed very real when we signed her name officially. We had always said that we were going to add part of her Chinese name to the American name that we have given her. We want her to always have a connection to her country so we kept her first name Wen and her last name Li as a middle name. I like that her initial is W because that is Mark and Dayton's middle initial too. I also went and met with my adoption buddies for dinner, it was just wonderful sitting down and gabbing about our little girls finally! We were smiling and laughing and it felt so good to finally celebrate together after all of these months of speculation, heartache and uncertainty. It has been so wonderful sharing the news with everyone, we can't wait to bring Myah home to all of our friends and family. We have been busy shopping for items to take to China. We are using this time to prepare the house for a baby. I am anticipating her walking if not when we get her but soon thereafter so I am clearing the house of anything that might hurt her. We have been polling our friends with young children for the must haves and wouldn't live withouts. This time is flying as I figured it would with Dayton's school and baseball schedules. We will be in China before we know it. We have to apply for our visa's this week, one step closer to getting our little girl. Next year on Mother's Day I will have my two kids with me. Dayton and I went into Canton to meet Mark for lunch while he was working. We laugh that our life is never normal and today proved to be another example of that. When we got into Applebees Mark was already sitting waiting for us. We hadn't been there longer than 10 minutes and Dayton spilled his drink all over the table. We were cleaning it up and the waitress was telling Dayton not to feel bad, and that she spills things all of the time, just as she was saying that an elderly lady walking behind her fell to the ground in front of us, Mark rushed to her and helped her up, she seemed to be ok but I am sure she was shook up. Not 5 minutes later I felt something hit my head and this guy sitting behind me stood up and apologized over and over for hitting my head with something, (I still don't know what it was, a spitball, a fork ,food who knows! ) So needless to say dinner was definately memorable! Everybody always stares at us anyhow when Mark is in his uniform and we try to act normal, kind of hard today!!!!!! Canton's finest and his family!!!!!! Always an adventure with the Schultz's!! Happy Mother's Day!!