One of my Best Mommy Moments...

[BevNJMom]

One of my best mommy moment came on April 13, 2004. After many years of fertility treatments, sadness and frustration and the loss of my youngest brother(20) to Leukemia who was like a "son to me at times", my DH and I decided to adopt from Russia. Friends of ours had two wonderful boys from there and they had nothing but good things to say. After months of classes, endless paperwork, medical exams, money and submittal of our forms to the adoption agency for translation and then for them to be sent off to Russia to wait to be matched with a child, we finally received an email on April 13, 2004 of a  2 X 2 picture of a little boy. My heart melted at seeing that picture and I knew from that moment that this was the child that was meant for us..that this was "our son". We traveled 22 hours in May for 3 short hours of holding and visiting our son and then it was back home to wait to get a court date for adoption. 6 months later, we traveled back and although our son had changed and I missed some of those precious baby moments, the moment they said our adoption was approved was another one of those proud mommy moments. I am so grateful everyday to his bio mom for giving her/our son life and for selflessly choosing to give him the chance at a life better than should could have provided to him. Every day especially mother's day, I am grateful to her for the gift that I have in my son that has allowed me the chance to experience motherhood. Everyday is a good mommy moment even if it is a bad day because I now have the opportunity to call it a "Mommy Moment"

 Happy Mother's Day to you all.

 BevNJMom