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“WILL YOU TELL HIM HE’S ADOPTED?”⁣
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The question made my heart jolt.⁣
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“He looks so much like the rest of you… you’d never have to tell him!”⁣
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She wasn’t wrong. He looks just like my other children-- fair skin, blue eyes, dimples and all. ⁣
But the question-- it stung me.⁣
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I knew she had good intentions (just like the other people who have said the same thing to me), but the reality is this: I don’t want there to ever be a day that my son doesn’t know that he was adopted. ⁣
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When I was younger, “you’re adopted!” was a punchline between siblings on TV shows. It was a way to diminish the other’s value or lovability. ⁣
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It was an insult. ⁣
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But it won’t be in my house.⁣
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Adoption is many things: it’s beautiful, it’s broken, it’s heartbreaking, and it’s amazing-- but it’s not (I repeat: it is NOT) a source of shame.⁣
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**Read full post in link in bio. ⁣

Absolute truth ❤️ @takingcarababies

Friends, please heed my warning. ⁣
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Unless you want your toddlers to stay up all night partying like rock stars, for the love all that’s good and holy, KEEP THEM IN A CRIB FOREVER. ⁣
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Big kid beds are bringing chaos and destruction to this exhausted mama. 😩

Nailed it! 😂

@mommycusses

The social worker from my son’s adoption sent me a message yesterday. She was cleaning out her office and found one of my son’s baby pictures, which was taken months before we met him. ⁣
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I had never seen this picture before yesterday, and I had never seen him make that facial expression. ⁣
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I wondered who took it. ⁣
Where was he? ⁣
What kind of mood was he in? ⁣
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As an adopted mama, there is so much I don’t know. ⁣
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I don’t know his birth story. ⁣
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I don’t know much about his biological family. ⁣
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I leave big sections of forms blank at doctor appointments, because I don’t know family medical history. ⁣
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I don’t know if his big handsome smile, his stubborn streak, or his inclination to always be a helper is hereditary. ⁣
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I don’t have any stories from infancy to share. ⁣
I don’t know when he first crawled. ⁣
I wasn’t there for his first steps. ⁣
I don’t know what his first words were. ⁣
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I do, however, know this information will one day be important to him. ⁣
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It is human nature to want to know where you came from. People crave information about their genealogy and ancestry. Companies like ‘23 & Me’ are part of a 3 billion dollar industry built on this innate curiosity. ⁣
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I don’t know how he will handle getting older and realizing that so much of his heritage and life before us is a mystery. ⁣
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I don’t know what battles he may face or what feelings he may one day wrestle. ⁣
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BUT, I do know that he is loved, more than I would have thought possible before becoming mama. ⁣
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I do know the same little face looking up at the camera before we even knew he existed, that same sweet face brings joy and light to our family every day. ⁣
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I do know he is fearfully and wonderfully made. ⁣
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I do know there is an amazing story being told through his life, and some of the best endings have come after painful beginnings. ⁣
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I do know that not one of us had a say in how we came into this world, the family we were born into, or the struggles we face- but we do have control of our how we choose to live and love. ⁣ ⁣
And, I know that my son is going to live big and love well. He is destined for greatness, and I don’t need a baby book or a family tree to tell me that

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