Happy Birth Mother/Mother's Day!

It's funny how 3 years ago and for many, many more before then, that Mother's Day was my most dreaded holiday of the year. I wanted for so long to be a mom and it always hurt to even think about the holiday. Now, it's one of my most treasured days of the year. I met Landon a week and a day after Mother's Day 2011. I knew I was a mother finally that year. I knew my son was an ocean away, but somehow I felt comforted in knowing that I was very, very close to meeting him and holding him in my arms for the first time. I am so so thankful that in a country where the abortion rate is extremely high, that Landon's birth mother chose life for our son. Today he is an amazing, fiesty, wonderful, smart, funny, beautiful 3 year old child. He is my entire world and I am so thankful for him. It was a long and broken road for our lives to intertwine. Everything happened just as it was meant to so that we could be a family. Today is birth mother's day - it's always the Saturday before Mother's Day. I am thinking of and praying for Landon's birth mother and foster mother today. They are two very special women that will always be part of our lives. I pray again that they know that Landon is very well loved and cherished with everything in me. He is going to be an amazing man one day and I am so thankful to be his mommy. I am so very thankful for his birth mom and his umma (foster mom). His birthmother for giving him the gift of life and allowing him to be adopted so that we could be a family. And his wonderful foster mother, who is one of the very sweetest women I have ever met in my life. She cared for him as her own and we know she loves him very dearly. Thank you God for this good and perfect gift.

 

Legacy of an Adopted Child

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 your one...
One became your guiding star, the other became your sun.
The first gave you life and the second taught you to live it.
The first gave you a need for love, and the second was there to give it.
One gave you a nationality, the other gave you a name.
One gave you a seed of 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 ... that's all she could do.
The other prayed for a child and God led her straight to you.
And now you ask me, through your fears,
the age old question unanswered throughout the years...
Heredity or environment, which are you the product of?
Neither, my darling … neither.
Just two different kinds of love.

~ Author Unknown ~