I am going to jump in and try the Love Thursdays. This is my first time doing this and I do enjoy reading everyone else’s.

It was our first family vacation after being blessed with the adoption of our two wonderful additions. We had been wanting to take Allie to the coast, so this was the perfect opportunity for them to share a wonderful experience. After going through the journey of adoption (which has its ups and downs), we wanted our children to bond and make some unforgettable memories. We were able to see our children interact without foster children around, which was the first time. We were amazed to see their love, caring, involvement and joy with each other. T o see the wonder in their eyes and to share the experiences as siblings was something I cannot put into words.

In the beginning of our journey of adoption, we had experienced a devastating thing happen to Allie. (I am working up to sharing the experience but it is something that brings a lot of raw emotions out. I hope to get to that point soon so that I can write about it. We had worried about how Allie would recover and cope with adopting. Would the scars Allie suffered heal without creating issues for her to whole heartedly bond with her siblings? I worried that adopting my two little ones was more for me and would Allie truly benefit as I so hoped.

I watched my children that week at the coast with such pride and joy. I knew without a doubt that a sibling bond was truly created. I know that they will have the joy of being siblings (the good even the bad), that Allie would have so such more than I ever imagined. When Allie came up to me and said, “Mom, adopting Beth and Lynn was the best thing we ever did.” My daughter saying that meant the world to me, one I wanted her to be okay and second she said “we”. In my heart that meant her broken heart was healing and that she wanted this as much as we did. I was on the right path in life for my family.


“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; That word is love.”
Sophocles