Meeting Tommy

picture with Tommy & Tommy's sister, Christine

We had a wonderful weekend. Auston was invited to a cousins birthday party, a cousin on his biological fathers side of the family. Auston has not had any contact with this side of the family for 12 years. we had been trying to set a meet with his Auntie Christine for the last couple of years, but it just never happened. and to be truthful, i didn't think it would ever happen. it made me sad to wonder why. but that all changed on sunday.....

auston has been asking about his biological father, Tommy, for a long time now. we have always kept pictures of him and his family in auston's room, not hiding my past from him. Daniel has adopted auston but, auston wanted to meet Tommy and we wanted to try and make that happen for him.

SO, sunday... Auston was nervous, i thought i might throw up when we parked in front of auston's auntie's house but, didn't thank goodness. we meet some family in the yard and then were introduce to family waiting in the house, as soon as Tommy walked into the room auston saw him and looked at me with a BIG smile on his face. i was so happy for him. Tommy was just as nervous as the rest of us. everyone was super sweet and didn't bombarded auston with any questions, waiting for Daniel and I and asking us things now and again. they didn't want to make auston uncomfortable. we spent the day with them and when it was time to say goodbye, auston was sad. his family re-assured him they would see him again. on our way home we got a text message from auston's auntie christine saying they had a great time and thanked us for coming. she wants to bring her daughter up to ramona to spend time with auston in a couple of weeks, auston is ecstatic.
picture with Tommy & Christine's daughter Lillie