The three points of the triangle represent the adoption triad: birthparents, adoptive parents, and child. The heart represents the love between all three.
We were blessed 5 years ago to receive our son through a wonderful thing called adoption. I’m so thankful for the amazing gift that his birthmother gave us.
“Not flesh of my flesh, Nor bone of my bone, But still miraculously my own. Never forget for a single minute, You didn’t grow under my heart – but in it”
It all started in August of 2006. I was working a part time job at a local theme park, while also working at a daycare where I had worked for years. The theme park was just a fun summer job, that I had took the year before and for what ever reason decided to go back for a second summer. Most of the other employees were Teenagers, so when I met other ‘adults’, I normally talked to them since I didn’t have much in common with the teens.
Near the end of the summer I worked with an older women and we talked during our shift. Then a few days later when I showed up at work there was a note on my time card asking me to call this lady regarding Child care. Thinking that when I told her I worked at a daycare, she took it as I done child care in my home. So I called her to let her know.
Little did I know but that phone call changed my life forever. Had I never had met her that day…had I never even worked there that summer…God really does work in mysterious ways.
She told me how when we talked I told her I didn’t have any children and how she thought I sounded sad about it. Then about how she went to a prayer group and found out the young girl they had been praying for was going to make an adoption plan for her unborn child and was looking for a family. Through that prayer group we met our son’s birthmother.
But the story doesn’t end there. Remember how I said God works in mysterious ways…well about 2 years earlier while working at day care I watched our birthmother’s oldest child. We had really met a few years earlier, we never would have thought we’d met again, in this way. They say that people come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. You just never know who you’re going to met and why.
Even though she was already parenting two other children, she knew that she wasn’t able to parent another at this time in her life. We ‘matched’ for adopted when she was just 4 months alone. You never know how long 6 months can be until you have to wait for the birth of a child.
I was lucky enough to be in the delivery room when he was born.
Here we are 5 years later. This photo of just took just this week, January 24, on his 5th Birthday. When they say that they grow up to fast, you really don’t know until you are there…I’m here.
Has your life been changed by adoption?
I recently found this Adoption Saves Lives shirt online that you can buy! I love it!
Jan 20th, 2012 |
Author: Rockin' Momma |
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