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You are lucky to have such a unique perspective on adoption, being an adoptive mother and an adoptee. I bet you will know exactly what to say to your daughter as she grows up. I worry about that all the time!

Our story is amazing and typical of alot of foster parents. We had 3 beautiful sons but I had always wanted a daughter too. My mother and I have a great bond and I always wanted to share that with my own daughter. After number 3 we decided that adoption would be the best was to guarantee a girl and we had always talked about adopting - even before we were married. After doing a little research and finding out the wait for a girl could take 2 years or more we decided to start the paperwork sooner rather than later. Easter was shortly after that and while we were at my in laws house we found out that my husband's cousin had had ANOTHER baby. This was her 5th. Three were placed with her mom and dad and one was with another grandmother. Our little girl was placed in foster care and grandma finally decided that they could just not take care of anymore children, so they would not persue custody. As soon as we heard about the baby I KNEW with every fiber of my being that I wanted her. The next day we called her cw and said we wanted custody of her, a day after that we visited her in her foster home (which was AMAZING, with an AMAZING family). A few weeks later she was home with us, and her adoption should be finalized in April. It was just amazing! I call her my little Easter miracle.

I also did my civic duty today and voted. Our polling place was in a church and when I told my 6 year old son that he said "are we going to vote for Jesus?". LOL it was so cute.