National Adoption Awareness Month

November is National Adoption Awareness month. Adoption is amazing. Have you really thought about it? I mean, AMAZING! And it's because of amazing birth mothers, birth fathers, case workers, adoption agencies, hospitals and organizations everywhere who give their hearts to this great cause.

I have known since I was a little girl that if I wanted children, I would have to adopt. I was taught by loving parents about adoption. I am forever grateful for their love, wisdom and support.

I have a sister, my kindred spirit, who shares the challenge of infertility with me and we are eternally connected in a way that no one else can understand. The odds of us having the same condition are astronomical, and yet through the Lord's tender mercies, we have a bond that strengthens us. I love you Amy!

I have an incredible spouse, who, as a young man, accepted this part of me with love and support and agreed to walk this path beside me. He is my soul mate.

For some of us, Adoption is our only path to parenthood.

That is the situation with us.

There was no maybe, no possibly, no let's give fertility treatments a try, no difficult pregnancies, no hard labor, no gift of pregnancy, no loss of pregnancy, no getting big and feeling fat, no maternity clothes, no high risk, no morning sickness, no birth control, no cravings, no at home birth, no epidural, no pregnancy stories.....Pregnancy was not an option. And sometimes over my life, that has been really hard. Sometimes it hurts.

But I would not change it for the world....

Because instead, we got 3 ADOPTIONS. And I am one lucky Momma!