We're about to meet our daughter y'all!!

We were just hanging around the house yesterday when my husband gets a text from his daughter. She got a text message asking about her father. Come to find out it’s a grown man who found his long lost father!! My husband had no idea that he had another son. To say that his emotions are all over the place right now is an understatement. Come to find out he had been adopted at birth and this birth mother never told him who his father was. So of course we had to cyber stalk the poor kid and he is definitely his son, he looks just like him! He’s incredibly happy, excited but also pissed! He’s mad that he never knew he existed and that he’s lost 20+ years with his son. He never would have given him up had he had known about him. But everything happened the way it should have. He had a great life growing up with his adopted family and probably saved him a lot of heartache. He didn’t have to grow up with two parents fighting over him. We are eternally grateful to his adopted parents for the great life they provided him! So thank you _____ and _____! We are so excited to met him will hopefully get to meet him within the next few months.

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.abf1798?utm_source=chatgpt.com

I've been wanting to talk about this all day since I got the news but I received an email from my boss shortly after lunch today letting me know I was getting a bonus on my next check- effectively doubling what my check normally is. I'm still reeling a little. I've been at this job for almost 2 years. I got my first ever raise last year. It's genuinely the best work environment I've gotten to be in since college, so hearing this today really made this week better. This is on top of my partner finally getting a new job after 4 months of unemployment, which means we'll finally have wiggle room financially.

I'm planning to save most of that bonus, but just knowing it's there is surreal.

This is a little personal victory so apologies if this doesn’t belong in this subreddit, but my wife and I have run a YouTube channel together since October, and we’re so happy to announce we’ve hit our first 100 subscribers! We’re so excited, we never expected this amount of support!