Forever Family Day

Abbey and I went out to celebrate our one year anniversary yesterday at the wonderful Chen's Restaurant. We had Chen's fried rice and fried soft noodles that include beef, chicken, shrimp, and veggies. Abbey did great with her chopsticks! She was so happy to sit in a booster seat, she does not want highchairs when we are out and about any more but she'll do it for me at home because I insist.
This has been the best year of my life and the joy and excitement continue day by day. Our new nightly routine is singing Skidamirink-a-dink-a-dink, I Love You LOUD over and over. I am fully aware of the difficult times many have had with adjustments and bonding, my heart really goes out to those families, so I hesitate sometimes posting our experience out of respect for them. But can I just say...it hasn't been that way for us, it's been wonderful. I kept thinking it was a honeymoon phase, but I really know in my heart that it's our reality. I sometimes feel that it will bother people that I'm not more "real" or don't have tons of struggles to share, but the truth is we are So Happy. Maybe it's waiting all those years, but the hard things about being a single mom that I prepared for don't seem hard in the light of Abbey Zhuozhuo.