It all started with an essay in High School!
Hello everyone,
I am having my morning coffee and just wanted to pop in and give you a quick post on how my motherhood journey began.
Yes, it all started in my Senior year in High School. We had the typical essay to write:"Where do you see yourself in ten years?" And at the time, I wrote that I wanted to be a wife and a mom and that if I was not married or could not have children, that I would want to adopt...yup, I wrote to adopt.
So, let's fast forward to when I was in Law School and I was not married or had any prospects...but that urge to be a mother was so present and was such a longing.
I had a colleague back then who confided in me that she has a strange dream about me the night before. She dreamt that I had a child of another race than mine and that she was beautiful...
Fast forward again to now and I do have a beautiful daughter that is of mixed race that we were blessed to adopt and she is the love of my life.
As the process of adoption began, and no worries, I will have a post on that at a later date, I was asked how I knew that I wanted to adopt...and I went back to that essay. And although I did not keep that essay, I can still picture it in my mind.
It seems like I always knew how it would be but just never thought that something that I wrote when I was sixteen could have ended up being my reality.
How did your journey begin? Was it with a conversation? Was there a pivotal even in your life that led you to your parenthood journey?
Wishing you all a blessed day!
SM
I am having my morning coffee and just wanted to pop in and give you a quick post on how my motherhood journey began.
Yes, it all started in my Senior year in High School. We had the typical essay to write:"Where do you see yourself in ten years?" And at the time, I wrote that I wanted to be a wife and a mom and that if I was not married or could not have children, that I would want to adopt...yup, I wrote to adopt.
So, let's fast forward to when I was in Law School and I was not married or had any prospects...but that urge to be a mother was so present and was such a longing.
I had a colleague back then who confided in me that she has a strange dream about me the night before. She dreamt that I had a child of another race than mine and that she was beautiful...
Fast forward again to now and I do have a beautiful daughter that is of mixed race that we were blessed to adopt and she is the love of my life.
As the process of adoption began, and no worries, I will have a post on that at a later date, I was asked how I knew that I wanted to adopt...and I went back to that essay. And although I did not keep that essay, I can still picture it in my mind.
It seems like I always knew how it would be but just never thought that something that I wrote when I was sixteen could have ended up being my reality.
How did your journey begin? Was it with a conversation? Was there a pivotal even in your life that led you to your parenthood journey?
Wishing you all a blessed day!
SM
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