Just a little Christmas story...

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year...

I was talking with my mother over the holidays and she was giving me more details into my adoption...its kinda facinating..well it is for me because i thought i knew everything but i guess now that im older my mom is a bit more free with the information...or maybe now that im older im more interested in talking about it...

my mom calls me her Christmas present because she got me right before Christmas when i was 5 months old...what i didnt know is that it may not have happened...timing is everything...

in 1976, after 2 or 3 miscarriages my mom gave birth to a baby boy...she says he had her facial features and my dads long limbs...he also had an enlarged heart and he died in the hospital when he was only a few months old...

i was telling my mom that i cant even begin to identify the pain her and my father went through...and she said for some couples an experience like that could tear them apart but for her and my dad it brought them closer..they realized how much they needed to lean on each other...

a few years later they decided to adopt and were looking into adopting a little girl...my brother was born in 1979 and when he was around nine months old the agency told them about him and they immediately said "give him to us," lol...they named him alex...and to this day they adore the mess out of him...shooot, i do too...

so after they got him in 1980 they had to wait a year before they were able to adopt again...i was born in july, before the year was up and the woman at the agency couldnt even tell them about me until the year was complete...luckily, i wasnt adopted by another family during that time...in december 1981 the agency called my mother and said "we have a little girl for you, she is 5 months"...my mom told her "i'll will be there in the morning" the woman called back and said "umm, you should prbably bring your husband too!"

...they brought half the family...and i came home with them...right before Christmas...when God has a plan in mind, its always turns out right...my family is close...and we all look alike...my bro looks like my mom and i look more like my dad..no one every believes we arent blood...

ya'll go hug your families as this new year starts...send a prayer up to God thanking him for life and love...and if you are beefin with cousins or brothers and sisters...reach out to them...they need you...and you need them...family is a blessing...i realize that more and more every year since im out here in california and everyone else is in michigan...i hate missing out on birthdays and holiday get-togethers..but this is my path, i chose it...but i know as long as i carry my family in my heart they are never far from me...

Happy New Year!