Just like this blog, our life is all about Kristina. I marvel daily at the things she says and does and continue to write daily blog posts in my head that never seem to make it to this site. This crushes me. I love to write. I need to write. I lack the time and energy.
Tonight, at 9pm, Kristina happily accompanied me to Target to go shopping for a birthday gift -- another weekend busy with parties. When we came home, I unbuckled my sleeping beauty from her booster seat and lifted her from the car. Ugh -- I can't do this much longer as she is getting to be a big girl. The stars were out tonight along with a full moon. Immediately, Kristina remembered a line from the Barbie movie she was watching earlier today.
"Star light, Star bright, first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight."
I knelt down and she sat on my knee as we recited this line together. Then she closed her eyes to make a wish....and my eyes welled up with tears. For years -
years - I would walk at night and look up to the sky, find a star and recite this line. My wish was always for the child that would make us a family. And for the first time tonight, my wish that was granted was sitting on my knee with an arm around me -- making her own wish.
In May, Kristina was home with us 5 years. Five awesome, exhausting, life-changing, incredible years. Here is the "photo shoot" from that day....our shining star herself, our wish come true!
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| Kristina is holding the bunny she got from Aunt Laura at the airport, May 16, 2009. |
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| Oh, my... |
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| Kristina is ready for the catwalk...not sure it's ready for her! |
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| And one of the balloons was released towards the heavens... |
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...with a prayer that all the children left behind find a family.
We will never forget them. |
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The Deary Family's 5th Anniversary
May 16, 2014 |
