Our Family Journey

28 Days Till Christmas!!

Hello All:

We haven't heard anything yet and it's starting to make me a little crazy. I guess all of the other steps in this process drove me crazy before we achieved them so why would this step be any different!! Hopefully we will hear something in the next week or so and can go get Maria and get her home before Christmas! I saw this poem posted on an online forum today and thought I would share it with you.

Legacy of an Adopted Child
Author Unknown

Once there were two women, who never knew each other.
One you do not remember; the other you call mother.
Two different lives shaped to make yours one.

One became your guiding star; the other became your sun.
The first gave you life and the second was there to give it.
One gave you a nationality; the other gave you a name.
One gave you the seed for talent; the other gave you an aim.
One gave you emotions; the other calmed your fears.
One saw your first sweet smile; the other dried your tears.
One gave you up; it was all she could do.
The other prayed for a child and God led her straight to you.

And now you ask me through your tears,
the age-old question through the years:
Heredity or Environment
which are you the product of?
Neither, my darling child, Neither.
Just two different kinds of LOVE.