Mother's Day

Since blogger had some major issues yesterday, I'm posting my Mother's Day post today:-) 

Hopefully next year I will be a mother on Mother's Day (as Ababa would say, "If God say the same"). 

I have been blessed to know a lot of great mothers: my mother, Ababa's mother, my grandmothers, my friends who are mothers...strong, intelligent, loving women whose hearts are full of love for their children.  I want to be like them:-)

We will never get to meet B's birth mother.  Hopefully we will learn more about her life and death when we travel to Ethiopia; however, even though she has passed on we want to keep her memory alive for B and acknowledge the incredible role she played in his life.  He is, and will always be, part of her and she is, and always will be, part of him.

Legacy of An Adopted Child

Author Unknown

Once there were two women,

Who barely knew each other.

One is in your heart forever,

The other you’ll 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 taught you how 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 the 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 a family,

It was what God intended for her to 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 a product of?

Neither, my darling… neither,

Just two different kinds of love.