21 things I’m thinking of on your Adoption Day

  1. Watching you play hockey
  2. Cracking up with you over Fake Coatsy tweets
  3. Watching “Stranger Things” with you
  4. How you always ask how I’m doing on my book
  5. The incredible job you’re doing at school
  6. Camping at Ricketts Glen
  7. How Grandad always would send me an email on August 18th about you
  8. How you described your bridge drawings to mom and me
  9. Watching “Lost” with you
  10. The mono Sgt. Pepper
  11. Driving home with you from the adoption agency, mom in the back seat next to you
  12. The ongoing gratefulness that you still cut our grass
  13. How you met with Dr. Fisher on the same campus where Grandad worked for more than 50 years
  14. The mono White Album
  15. Vacation on the Outer Banks
  16. Thinking of Woody … and Daisy
  17. Watching “Daredevil” with you
  18. Mocking that big, orange-haired buffoon running for President
  19. Your devotion to Grandmother
  20. Your devotion to Family
  21. And the amazing joy you brought into our lives 21 years ago.

I love you Max.