Happy New year!
I hope you and your family had a wonderful holiday season, and that the new year brings you good things.
Ricky and I enjoyed our little Christmas with each other. I love the way he opened gifts and said, “Here, mom want to see?” Then, he placed the item in my hands, showing me where the buttons were and what they did.
He got the book Green Eggs and Ham and read it to me at least a dozen times.
Our blessing for the new year was an overnight with his biological sister, Mary Christine. What fun! Her adoptive parents are so wonderful in sharing her life with us!
As always, Ricky and Mary Christine played together like they had never spent a day apart! We stayed up late watching Christmas shows, all camping out in her bed room.
I am often sad when we leave her but it is amazing to get to have overnights, and that Ricky and she are allowed to have such a wonderful relationship. Some folks don’t understand adoption that can be a need for a number of reasons, but a open adoption – what a concept.
I believe, however, it allows for healing for the birth mom and it builds the esteem of the adopted child because that child will never have to go searching for answers, with regard to his/her birth parents . Our daughter has her adoptive parents, her birth parents, and biological sibling, Ricky, always in her life, to answer her and support her through her life.
As I had planned to parent her my daughter Mary Christine, she knows me as the mommy that grew her in my tummy! When we have visitors in our home and they ask of the girl in the photos on the wall, Ricky is quick to say that is my sister!
It is complicated to the outsider for sure, but sometimes life happens, things we have no control of, and the outcome we had planned for is not the outcome we get.
Life happens, that is for sure. However, we do have control of how we react to the life’s rocks, or even boulders, that life sometimes hurtles our way.
We have the power to react in a negative or a positive way – that we do have control of.
For many years, I reacted negatively to life – any piece of it. Now, I feel it is growth that I embrace life’s challenges and seek to respond to them and not react to them, responding in the most positive thoughtful ways.
This new year, I choose to experience life as a journey, finding a adventure in each new day!
The book I wrote about my journey through addiction to life today. Cry Purple, will be released this month!
I hope you will invite others to read our story and follow our blog. We also have a facebook page! You can like it from this page.
I wish you the best New Year ever and invite you to embrace life’s hurdles as growing experiences, to respond and not react! Seeing each new day as a journey – anadventure yet to be had!
Christine!
Cry Purple 