Well, this last week I finally did it. I first started with my husbands sister. My son's adopted mom called me and had my son wish me a Merry Christmas! That was a new thing and I was very excited! My husband and I happened to be staying at his sisters house when my son called, and my husbands sister asked me who was on the phone. Seemed like a perfect time to tell her, and so I told her it was my son who had been adopted into another family. She actually looked a little taken back, and said "what?", like she hadn't heard me right. Anyway, I repeated myself, and the conversation went from there. Then just this last Sunday my husband and I were staying with his brother and sister-in-law (we did a lot of traveling over the holidays
) and it happened to be my son's birthday, which I always celebrate with a cake, so we had cake and I explained why and what we were celebrating. My sister-in-law was so sweet and kind and very empathetic. She said " Oh, that's hard stuff " which is nice sometimes for people to actually realize. Anyway, only 5 more siblings to go, and an aunt.