Happy Mother's Day 2015! I got to celebrate my first Mother's Day in 2003 and I still remember it! Zack was almost 11 months old. Gosh, time has flown by so fast. We went to dinner with my parents today to celebrate. I love this feeling of being content...like my family is complete. I am so blessed. Life may get crazy and overwhelming and busy at times, but it is so worth it. I know down the road when the kids are all grown up and have moved out to go to college and have moved on to the next phase of their lives, that I will be sad. Cambria is only 2, so that day won't be for quite a while!
I am also thinking of those women that are waiting and wanting to be moms, but aren't yet. I am sure this day must be so hard for you. For those women struggling with infertility, I hope you become a mother soon...either through pregnancy or the miracle of adoption.
Yesterday was birth mom's day. I am so glad we have an open adoption with Cambria's birth mom and her birth family on both sides. I am happy her birth family gets to watch her grow up across the country and they know that she is happy and healthy and they can have some peace knowing she is doing great. I think the not knowing would kill me in a closed adoption.
Despite the happiness and joy that Cambria has brought to my family, there is still loss in adoption...no matter how you slice it. There is still loss on 2 sides of the adoption triad. The birth mother experiences a loss of her child and the adoptee experiences the loss of having their birth family in their life everyday. Even in a good adoption relationship, there is still a sense of loss unfortunately. A birth mother breaks her own heart and sacrifices her own happiness to give her child the life she wants for them. That, my friends, is motherhood.
Even if the road is bumpy now and then in open adoption, I love Cambria's birth mom and wish her nothing but the best!
