Adoption and such....

I just recently celebrated my 18th year anniversary of my adoption with my parents...(actually it was just yesterday) and it made me think about how different my life would be if these people had not opened their home and their hearts to me. when they took me in, i was a scared and scarred little girl, and now thanks to them i am a beautiful woman with a family of my own. i would not be anywhere near where i am today if it were not for them. i wouldn't have any morals or any sense of modesty.the woman who gave birth to me has been in and out of my life and has caused more pain than she will ever know and it wasn't until recently that i realized that i didn't HAVE to have her be a part of my life, but that i had two parents already and that i would be just fine, if not better without her. she doesn't deserve to know me or my family because she doesn't even know herself. so how can she even begin to know me? if there is one thing that i would thank her for, it is that she made the choice to let someone who could love me and nourish me, be the ones to raise me.
i love my parents more than anything and no matter what i have done, they have always loved me and forgiven me, it may have taken time to get there, but i finally feel like i am having the relationship with my parents that i have always wanted...

Traditions

so as Easter is just around the corner, i find myself thinking about the traditions from my childhood and what we used to do. i remember this one Easter we were at my aunts house and her dog ate my basket of candy! and then there was the one that we spent in Ohio with some friends that had moved from east Middlebury. there were alot of good memories there and i want to have the chance to give my daughter an opportunity to have memories made that she will remember a decade later.