Drama Mama & The Fantastic Four

Homecoming 2010

A small baby an ocean away, in a country totally foreign to me.  It seems so odd because you are right where you belong. LM, this story of ours, is so right that it gives me faith when I forget to believe.

I love you.  I will never be the perfect mother, but know this, my love for you is so sweet and deep and tender, that I want to be.  It sounds so simple, but really it's not.  I  hope that one day you'll experience it with children of your own.  A love so deep it aches, painful yet joyous.  It's complicated and emotional, and totally amazing.  You are amazing.  

You are ours and we are yours...always. 

~Mommy

Adoption 101

Inevitably, when the subject of adoption occurs, someone asks me about my or Liam's "real" parents.  I'm always amazed.  I realize, often, that it is lack of education on the subject...I try to have patience with people and correct their terminology.  As a child and mother of adoption, it really ticks me off.  So folks, school is in, this is not a new concept...I am very much a real mother as was mine.  I resent what that "real" implies.  As if biology trumps all else.  The correct terminology would be birth or biological parent.