The Phone Call

both my shaking hands and all the brilliant colors

one morning in January,
the sunrise turned my bedroom pink and
even with the shades down
and the lights off
it shifted the entire atmosphere,
it bathed the space in color.

one day in March,
a judge will ask us this:
Why do you want to adopt Mary Hope?
We’ll tell them and then a bang 
of the gavel will reverb in the air.
We will be legally hers,
shifting the course of our family forever,
bathing our lives in color
like we’ve never known before.

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My hands shook as I hung up the phone yesterday.

I immediately called my husband and, with tears already pushing at the back of my eyes, with a racing heart and in disbelief that the day we’ve been wondering about and then waiting for for nearly two years is finally here, I said:

“Do you have plans on March 6th?”

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Our sunshine girl, soon-to-be Mary Hope Elisabeth Sanchez