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Old Dec 04, 2004, 11:49 PM
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I've posted about this elsewhere previously, but just a brief recap -- I have a 16-year-old son whose butthead father ran out on me, and not wanting to raise a kid on welfare, which I was on at the time, I placed him for adoption.

In March of this year, his adoptive mother did some Internet sleuthing and tracked me down, and we have been corresponding off and on since then. I sent Canyon (it has taken me a LONG time to get used to the name, LOL -- I named him Christopher!) a huge box of presents for his birthday in late May, and he sent me a little email back, and that's about all I hear from him, which I figure is pretty good for a 16 year old boy with one set of parents already.

I wrote his mom tonight saying I had gotten the box of Christmas presents off and to make him save some to open on Christmas. She wrote back and said she had been thinking of me today because the civic theatre in the small town where they live is putting on a production and Canyon is in the band (he plays 5 instruments!). She's going to try to get me a cast picture for Christmas, she said. In my email I asked if they had the tree up yet, thinking she could put the presents I sent underneath it.

When he was born, I made him a cross-stitch Christmas ornament, "baby's first Christmas," and sent it off to the agency, which up until March of this year is how we had to communicate.

His mom just wrote back and said -- yeah, we have the tree up, and the ornament you made him is on it and has been there every single year.

I have no idea how to name what I'm feeling. I thank God over and over that my son has such a wonderful family and is clearly so loved and so well taken care of. I miss him every waking minute of my life. I don't know whether to cry, or thank her, or jump for joy, or what -- but that really touched me, that they would put up this really crappy ornament (I was just learning cross-stitch at the time and I wasn't very good, LOL) every year and tell him where it came from.

I think I need to cry. I'm just so overwhelmed.

Candy
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