So I have basically avoided blogging during my entire adoption simply because it was too painful, so happy, so wonderful, too dramatic, and so on and so forth. Now on to the good stuff--with December upon us, I feel ready to just have my thoughts here! I don't know why. maybe it's that I have been reading some amazing blogs. Maybe it's that I wish I was better at this. Maybe it's just that I just wanna write! Who knows!
On December 24th, it will be 1 year exactly that I legally became K's Mama! Who knew that the holiday season would forever be marked with this wonderful news! In Ethiopia, this really means nothing, so when I shared this incredible news with my attorney (when I was there to pick up my son), he just scoffed it off! But yes, what a way to celebrate the season of thanksgiving and living, and lights, and love and peace and job--by becoming K's mom!
However, no matter how much I enjoy this--it always reminds me of K's birth mom! Oh this amazing woman!!! How many times I have thought of her gift of love. How many times I have thought that she must miss him so terribly. Having been him Mama for only 10 months, I know that her choices were made out of a deep, deep, deep sense of pure love for him! So today, as I think about Hanukkah, Christmas, Ganna, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa, and our life together--I also think of her!!! Thank you ZM. Thank you!
