A Simple Reminder

“They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast,
And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From the poem “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond”

My Wordless Wednesday Birthday Gift

The Kidlet was excited to give me his little gift this morning. More than anything else, he was proud of the care he took wrapping it.  He spent at least 5 solid minutes describing the method he used to cut and wrap the paper and use the scissors to curl the ribbon.

I think it’s the most beautifully wrapped gift I’ve ever gotten - because it’s from him.

The Kidlet made today, my 32nd birthday, happy.

More Wordless Wednesday here.

Happy Birthday, Kidlet

This grainy webcam photo was taken on December 4, 2000 and was the very first picture the world saw of my baby boy after we brought him home from Ukraine.

Today he turns EIGHT.

I’m a mother to an eight-year-old!! How did time pass so quickly!?

Happy 8^th Birthday, Kidlet!

Also on this day, I like to reflect about his First Mother - I usually re-read this post that I made on his second birthday…

I Reject your “(Birth)Mother’s Day” Reality and Substitue My Own

As an adoptive mother, I/we don’t celebrate “Birthmother’s Day”…

… I believe in celebrating my son’s First Mother on the same day that we celebrate my motherhood - on “regular” Mother’s Day.

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