Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

A Piece of Our Story

I think a lot about how to explain our story to my daughter.  I see adoption as something our world needs.  And it needs it to work well.  Sometimes there are parents who cannot raise the children they birthed.  It is up to us, the rest of the world, to make sure these children are raised well and surrounded by love.  But how do you explain this to a young child?

I read something by an adoptive mom that very much fits with my beliefs.  She said she tells her children that parents have two jobs.  One job is to bring children into this world.  The other job is to raise children.  In most cases, the same people do both of these jobs.  But, there are some cases where parents do only one of these jobs.  These parents are partners.  Antonia's birth mom and I are partner moms.  We are working together to create and raise a most special, beautiful girl.