Thankful

Thank you so much for sharing in our joy and excitement! It means so much to us to have so many friends, near and far, who are celebrating with us.

The BEST feeling is knowing that for most of you adoption isn't second best and that if my news had been that we had been matched with another baby to adopt I know that so many of you would have been fully celebrating that, too! That means so much!

I have had a few people on the outside...people I casually know or who are friends of friends...make comments about how exciting this must be to be having a child of my own. I know that type of comment is made out of ignorance, not malice, but I have to respond that this is not true. I already have two children of my own. No, they weren't birthed from my body but they could not be my babies any more if they had. They are my CHILDREN!

This experience is exciting for many fairly obvious reasons including the fact that I have always wondered what it would be like to carry a child in my body for nine months and feel it grow and move. This is an experience I honestly thought I might never have. So, for those reasons and a few more it is thrilling and exciting.

But, more than anything, children are children are children. And, however my children join our family it is nothing short of a miracle and a blessing!