Thanks everyone! I know that my mom would be very supportive of our decision to adopt. I also know that she would adore my children. I'm going to do my very best to teach my children what a wonderful, hilarious person she was and all of the great things that I learned from her. There are plenty of stories to last a lifetime!
That being said, a part of me is still sad that they won't have any of her genetic features. I always thought, "Maybe they'll have her beautiful, blue eyes" and those kinds of things. I look at my nephew and he has some distinct features of my moms that not even my sister has. I always hoped for that in my kids too.