Please remember ALL moms this weekend.

No matter who you are, you may know someone who has been touched by adoption. Without adoption I would NOT be able to celebrate Mother's Day tomorrow. Just 4 years ago Mother's Day was a day or TORMENT for me. I could not go to church and I would burst into tears at the drop of a dime. Infertility is a cruel thing that takes away all of life's celebrations. I remember my first Mother's Day. Eric went out of his way to make the day so special because he knew I had longed to be honored on that day for sooooo long. Still to this day, there is a sting of "Mother's Day's past" because I can vividly remember the gut wrenching feeling like it was yesterday. This is all the more reason why I LOVE Mother's Day now. It is easy to take for granted life's blessings but I guarantee you that there is not an adoptive mom in this world that doesn't count her blessings a little extra that day. Today I took Angelina to visit her birth mom. I kept thinking over and over about how grateful I am for birth families and when I look at our kids I am ALWAYS reminded of the blessings birth parents give to waiting couples. We have three birth mothers in our lives. We only have contact with Christina, but on days like tomorrow I remember that no matter what their circumstances were then or are now, we would NOT be parents if they did not birth our kids. Talk about pro-life. There are many other people like me who would not have families if our birth mother's had decided to not to give birth. I would like to say thank you to Maria, Gabriella and Christina for giving life to our children. We are ETERNALLY blessed.