REMEMBERING

Today is Remembrance Day, all around town everyone wears a red poppy on their lapel remembering, honoring all of those who have served their country.

Remembrance Day has also another special significance for me; my oldest daughter arrived the day after Remembrance Day. We had a call telling us the adoption had been decided on the morning of the 10th and we were to be the proud parents of a 13 day old baby girl; because of the holiday we would pick her up on the 12th. The phone rang off the hook, we dashed out for wallpaper and paint. A neighborhood baby shower was organized for the next evening, Remembrance Day. People started arriving with a crib and baby stuff. A friend from across the street stayed up half the night helping me wallpaper and paint. The shower on Remembrance Day brought a carload of baby essentials with every shade of pink possible! Now it is 26 years later and I met her birth dad just this past weekend, what a loving adventure it has been. Since the adoption story is such a big part of my life I have added a page to my blog to chronicle our story and to give a voice to the quietest part of the adoption triangle, the adoptive parent. It is a Love Lesson: we love more than one child and yet each one we love as deeply as the next. This is how we journey into reunion with an open heart embracing the love that will come to our child as a wonderful gift and knowing in return the love they share will only deepen our own bond...Debra---remembering with deep gratitude.