Thank you for…
- Setting up a Meal Train when Gavin first came to us.
- Bringing us food. Sending us food.
- Hosting a baby shower.
- Hosting a virtual baby shower.
- Giving us hand-me-downs: clothes, a car seat, cloth diapers, a glider, toys…
- Gifting us every other piece of baby gear (we had nothing!).

What awaited us outside our front door when we got home one night. (The packages- not the baby, though if he were, it wouldn’t be far from the truth for foster care!)
- Mowing our lawn.
- Inviting us over.
- Pretending to not be mad when Gavin’s dirty diaper leaked on your floor when you had us over.
- Babysitting Gavin – sometimes for free, sometimes at way below market rate.
- Willingly jumping through the bureaucratic hoops required to babysit a foster kid.
- Being understanding when we had a crazy visitation and medical appointment schedule to work around.
- Knitting Gavin blankets.
- Sending Gavin a personalized bib with a joke that took us months to get.
- Sending us flowers on a court date.
- Sending us a plant and chocolates when we thought Gavin had gone home.
- Facetiming us. Calling us. Texting us. Emailing us.
- Sending us cards. And more cards.
- Crying with us and for us.
- Flying out to visit us.
- Flying out to be with us during a court date.
- Sending us lucky pennies you found on the ground.
- Donating breast milk to us. Having your sister donate breast milk to us.
- Donating funds so that we could purchase breast milk. Having your coworker donate funds so that we could purchase breast milk.
- Visiting us when Gavin was in the hospital at seven-weeks-old.
- Being understanding when we never knew our schedule or whether Gavin would be with us for an upcoming event.
- Being understanding when we were hesitant to make plans because we feared it might be our last weeks/weekend/days with Gavin.
- Listening to us hash out every nuance of the legal case, over and over.
- Packing a bag for Gavin when he unexpectedly came to Hawaii with us and we weren’t in the state to do it ourselves.
- Praying for us.
- Praying for Gavin. “Storming the gates of Heaven,” as one of our wise friends pledged.
- Extending your visit with us in March 2016 so that we could take a little 4-day-old baby boy home from the hospital to live with us.
- Understanding when we were grumpy, or withdrawn, or short with you. (We’re sorry.)
- Loving us. Loving our little boy and doting on him like crazy.
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