The Gift of Adoption

I stumbled across this beautiful online article today and knew I had to share this immediately in my blog. As an adoptive parent, I am thankful every single day for the gift of my daughter. I am thankful 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 12 months of the year. Even on those days when she leaves me a bit frazzled, I feel blessed to call her my daughter. I am thankful her birth mom, who wanted her baby to have a chance at life and carried her to term, knowing she would soon say goodbye and entrust her baby to virtual strangers. On a frequent basis, I am overwhelmed with emotion, usually when thinking of the enormity of being chosen to raise a baby born to another woman.

Adoption is not the choice for every woman, but it is an option. To all the women who are pregnant and are unsure of what to do-please choose life and give the baby a chance to live, whether you make an adoption plan or raise the baby yourself. Life is precious. I can’t even describe the joy our family has experienced over the last seven years, thanks to our youngest daughter joining our family through adoption. No longer is there emptiness in our hearts, my daughter has a sibling she always wished for and our family is complete. My daughter has a life filled with love, family, friends, a good education, vacations, birthday parties and is cherished every day. Someday, she will have a family of her own and I will be a grandma to her children. Because of one brave decision, a future of happiness and joy for generations to come lies ahead of us.

Thank you for making a beautiful choice. To say “Thank You” is just not enough, the only way to truly thank you is to cherish and love the child you entrusted us with for the rest of our lives.