How this all started...

I have known for a long time that I wanted to be a mom. It seemed that life's circumstances didn't lend themselves to my dream becoming a reality until I met David. It seemed we were meant to be parents--TOGETHER. We both love children. Our dream wasn't that much different than other couples our age. We began our journey toward parenthood shortly after we got married in August 2004. We thought we would have kids the way other couples do; pregnancy, then childbirth. When it became apparent we would have significant difficulty conceiving, we tried quickly to turn that tough news into an opportunity. Easy enough, right? We would adopt. There were plenty of babies out there that needed parents. Not so easy (for us at least). Since it happens that David and I both use wheelchairs to get around in our daily lives we were met with some opposition and some really great support.

We were confident we would be awesome parents with determination, ingenuity, and mentoring from other parents who have had kids, support from our friends family, our faith community...We'd do (and are doing) just fine. Even though families with one or both parents disabled have been raising children very successfully for a long time, we met significant opposition from adoption professionals and agencies. With every rejection we faced, our determination to be parents was fueled. We pressed on--we wouldn't take no for an answer. Several agencies, social workers, birth mothers and almost two years later, on December 31st, 2007, we brought our baby Denver home.

I kept resolving to blog after Den came home and then which each big milestone, holiday, or other life event, I'd say to myself--"I really need to start my blog." I had decided that I would begin blogging when Denver took his first steps and even call the blog: Denver Walks--Mommy Blogs. I altered my plan slightly. Denver turned 15 months on March 29th. Boy time flies. Fast forward to today-- for my 1st official blog post, thanks for reading & WELCOME!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Happy Adoption Day--Denver Reegan Dauber

It was one year ago today that we made the nervous trek to the Bexar County Court house in San Antonio for Denver's adoption finalization hearing. The video of this AWESOME moment is posted below. As we made the trip we were remembering all we'd been through in our adoption journey leading up to this day. Of course, we thought of what all could go wrong, and wondered what questions the judge would ask us. It went on without any glitches at all. The judge was rather eccentric. Down right weird actually. She came out with her black judges robe on wich had about ten bird pins on it. She went through all the formalities, then into this litnay about boys car insurance rates and told us we couldn't change our minds when he was 16 and our prememuims were through the roof. Then proceeded to prnounce the ADOPTION FINAL. Those were the magic words we'd waited over two years to hear! I am so glad you're finally home Den and I love you to the ends of the galaxy and back again a trillion times.
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