What Adoption Means To Me

In honor of November being National Adoption Awareness Month, I would like to share my feelings about adoption. As a child I never had childhood dreams of being a big career woman, mostly dreamt of becoming a Mom. We had so many hopes and dreams for our lives when we were married in 2002. He made plans to start our family one year later. Long story short, Our dreams of becoming Parents started coming true January 2008 when we got The Call that a Birth Mom had chosen us to become the parents of her Child. The next few months were incredible as we got to know Kirsten and become a part of her family.

Ethan was born in August 2008 and are dreams became true. Ethan has a shirt that says:

Adoption - Loved and Adored by both my families.

To me that is exactly what Adoption is all about. Being loved and adored by both families. We have an Open Adoption and love being a part of Her family.

I truly feel blessed to be a part of the Miracle of Adoption.

Today and everyday I am always thankful for Adoption.

Temptation

Today I gave in to my temptation I have every time this time of year. I try SO hard to wait until the day after Thanksgiving to occupy myself with Christmas music. I've been in such a holiday mood lately. I've started our Christmas shopping (So much FUN), thought about our holiday traditions and think this year is going to be so much fun now that Ethan is starting to understand what's going on around him.

Don't get me wrong. I am an avid lover of Thanksgiving. My favorite memories of Thanksgiving include: making pies with my mom, eating Thanksgiving dinner with my Grandparents, cousins and all, this story, breaking the wishbone and being thankful for all that we have.

So Today I went to my Itunes and clicked on my Christmas Playlist. And I'm so glad I did. The first song that randomly played was this. Lately I've had a few things on my mind, can't sleep through the symphony (snoring - ;)Love you Brett!!!) Brett sings each night and have had a hard time falling asleep. Since my sheep have failed me time after time, I'm going to start counting my blessings instead of sheep.

It's official... the music playing in our home is now Christmas. I think It's gonna be a christmas to remember.

Today I am thankful for this time of year.