As I drove to my dear friend Krista's house this morning to spend a few hours with them, I was overcome with emotion. I don't know what song was on the radio, but it triggered something and then to spend time with my sweet Abby Bo Babby, who loves Cooper like no other little girl I know...she loves him like he's her brother...and then Krista talking about how much emotion she was filled with last week as Cooper and I visited school for Abby's birthday lunch...how that was the place that they prayed for Cooper for so many weeks, and she felt so strongly that Cooper was to be ours during our separation...yet she didn't know how to verbalize that for several weeks without sounding crazy....and then for us to be there now, if only she could have seen that then, maybe it would have eased our pain at the time? Maybe, but the pain was worth the gain! And now here we are 5 months and a day he has been ours. Almost 2 months since his name has "legally" been Cooper. But tomorrow is the 6 month of the day we "lost him" but yet that "anniversary" pales in comparison to the others that surround these past 7 days....his birth mom's birthday, his 6 month birthday, my birthday, 5 months of us being his legal guardians, 2 months of him officially being a Cozens....the blessings FAR outweigh that pain. Where oh where am I going with all of this....as we enter in to a specific DAY for Thanksgiving...here's what we are thankful for....
1. For Cooper's Aunt M to respect me enough as her son's teacher to call saying she would love for us to adopt her unborn nephew. If it weren't for her phone call and her thought of us, we wouldn't have our sweet smiley boy!
2. For Cooper's birth mom to love him so much to carry him safely in her body until she could carry him no more.
3. For Cooper's birth mom to bless us with the BEST gift anyone will EVER give us, a gift we couldn't give ourselves.
4. For the trials we went through as we fought to gain custody
5. For the God-story that Cooper has and is building as he grows up in the Faith - how can anyone witness what happened to us/him and not believe in our Heavenly Father....He helped arrange all the right people, at all the right times for the outcome that we have
6. For our friends and family who have loved us and supported us through this past year
7. For our Heavenly Father and HIS plan - it ROCKS!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Love, The Cozens
