mortiz007

Jackson and Justin The day you were all born......  we waited and waited for this day with anticipation, joy and pure excitement.  Maybe not the physical labor part so much for me, but the the reward at the end of the labor  was going to be these children.  I remember going to the hospital the second time to have Jordan  (yes the first time was a false alert and we classified it as the most expensive date ever.  All we ate was a granola bar and a juice while walking the halls at the hospital for about a grand!) And by the third labor you would think we would have known if this was really labor or not!  So the day she was really born, I can still remember as if it was yesterday, the moment I knew I was going to hold my little princess.  There was such an overwhelming sense of joy and happiness.  She was perfect and beautiful, just as we anticipated.  Each time I was blessed to hold my child immediately after giving birth and feed them from my breast.  But what happens when this perfectl

Mother's Day Reflections.....today is the day we look to those who gave us life.  For three of my children, I will never know who that was.  So today I reflect on their birth mamas.  I will never know their faces, their names or the reason behind their decisions, but I hold them dear to my heart because they gave me their greatest gifts.  I will never truly know their pain or the aching in their hearts, I can only imagine the grief and pain they will feel as the days pass.  My greatest prayer for them is to know the little ones they so dearly cherished and gave life to are loved in a family.  I pray for them to know the Lord and Jesus as their Savior, for one day we may all celebrate these children lives together in heaven. Being both an adoptive mother three children and a biological mother to 3 children I cannot imagine the sorrow carried in their heart for these children.  I know we have a long road to walk, and we have many hurdles both emotionally and physically to jump throug