Time flies when you are in love.

Believe it or not my son turns 1 year old today, and let me tell you this first year went WAY too fast.

Jordan was born on January 18th 2005. At the time I wasn't aware of his significance to my life, but I would soon realize it.

It all started with a phone call. It was from my girlfriend Summer's sister. She had been incarcerated for about 7 months and had just had her 4th child, a baby boy named Jordan. The call was brief, as most are in her situation. She had called to see if we would give her baby a home. She was going to be away for a while and if she couldn't find someone in her family to take him he would then be entered into the state foster system. So, like anyone in our situation would do, we agreed and became foster parents.

It wasn't that easy though. I remember when Summer originally asked me about this I said to myself, "I am only 21 years old and I paid the money for birth control to avoid this situation!". Then one night, when Summer had to go to work and was getting ready to take him to her moms I said, "You don't need to get him all ready to go, he can just stay with me." And that was it, nothing else mattered anymore. His life was in my hands, and not just until Summer returned from work, but forever.

Something inside changes when you feel unconditional love and understand you are feeling it. As children our parents would do anything for us, and that is unconditional love, but at the time we aren't able to fully understand what that means. It is more of a salutation than anything at that age. But when you become a parent and realize that you are eternally connected with someone it is overpowering.

Let's just hope this next year doesn't go as fast as the last. In honor of his birthday, I am going to post a few more pictures. He's just too damn cute!