Filling my passport with family, travel and bliss

Hello?

Anyone there?

I’m baaaaaack!!!

And yes, I know, it’s been what…7 months?

What caused me to fall off the face of Passport to Bliss, you ask?

Well, I’ll give you a clue…..

Tah-dah!

If you guessed we purchased a brand new teddy bear snuggly, nice try…

But if you guessed we welcomed a brand new addition to our family…well, you my friend, are…

RIGHT!

On April 2nd, our new SON was welcomed into this world, and on April 3rd, we got a phone call while at Knotts Berry Farm that there was a baby boy who needs parents to love him…are we interested?

Well, that was an easy answer!

After having our profile book submitted along with a few other potential parents, we got the amazing news later that night that the birth mother chose US to be his parents!

Tears of joy, stress, excitement, exhaustion (at preparing for a little one last minute all over again!) ensued.

The next day, we made the 2 hour drive to the hospital to meet and bond with our new little bundle of joy.

We named him Vincent, and he was perfect!

He stayed in the hospital for 5 days since he was a preemie and had a low heart rate.

Every day, we came to see him, hold him, feed him, change him and just bond with our new son.

On day 5, when his health improved, we swaddled him tight, secured him into the car seat, packed up his hospital memorabilia, thanked all the medical staff for taking such good care of our little guy, and drove him to his forever home.

Our lives changed instantly….AGAIN!

Our family of 3 was suddenly a family of 4 thanks to the blessing that is adoption!

Due to the nature of the adoption, I cannot post any photos of Vincent until the adoption is finalized, but let me just say…his smile is priceless!!!

Needless to say, I am busier than EVER between caring for a 2.5 year old and a baby!  My priorities have shifted all over again, and any free time I once had is now used for housework, running errands and trying to catch some sleep.

Now that I’m starting to get a *little* more normalcy into my life, I’d like to start writing in Passport to Bliss again.

My last blog post centered around our first day from our family New England getaway. And then I left you hanging!

Well…since autumn is right around the corner, and since I have little pockets of time to enjoy, I’m going to continue writing about our New England autumn getaway from last year (hopefully in a more timely manner!)

Until then, I leave you with this photo…

10 toes present and accounted for!