It’s late and I just went in to check on the little ones. They are so beautiful when they are sleeping. I sigh at the miracles that they are.
Three years ago, I would never have imagined that I would be raising children all over again. Babies. I would never have dreamed that I would be a mother all over again and continue to raise children until I die. Because really that is the cold hard facts of this. I am no spring chicken, (at least that’s what my bones keep telling me) and I will be old when they are teenagers. Yes they are blessed to have me, but I am also blessed to have them.
Some days are hard, I mean, oh my Gawd hard, and I think to myself, what in the world are you doing this for. But that thought only lasts for a fleeting second. All it takes is one I love you mommy or a kiss or one of their silly grins to melt my heart, and I know exactly why I am doing this. Because if I didn’t….they would have been adopted out to strangers as young babies. That couldn’t happen, not while I am still breathing.
So, while I didn’t give birth to these children, they are my blood and they came from my heart. I am their mommy in every meaning of the word mommy. They own me heart and soul. I would sacrifice everything for them. I think I might have already sacrificed my sanity…but heck, whose to say whats sane or not anymore huh.
Mini Bug is now 3 1/2 and she is really developing her own personality. I can understand more and more of what she says, and she might be president one day, because she sure has the gift of gab. Or maybe a college professor because she can go on and on, and most of the time nobody knows what in the heck she is talking about. Mini Bug has been close to me since she was born, she came to live with me permanently when she was 11 months old. I have loved her before she was even born. She stole my heart from the first moment I held her. She is the only girl from my immediate family. I had 3 sons, all of my other sons, had sons. This is the only girl. Of course she is special!
Mighty Bug..well, he is going to be a little heart breaker. That boy is cute and charming. He has a smile that could melt a glacier. Very loving little boy, that appears to be a fast learner. But then he has an advantage, he has an older sister to watch. He will learn faster because of her. Mini Bug didn’t have that. It’s hard to believe that the baby’s 1st birthday has come and gone. He is 14 months old today. Oops yesterday as it’s after midnight and already the 5th. I had him since he was less than a month old. It took that long to get him because I moved out of state and the courts had to draw the paper work up so everything was nice and legal. The first time I looked in his eyes, I knew, I just knew, he was my son. Again, not from my body, but from my heart and soul. Yes my son and his gf made these precious angels. But God gave them to me to raise and protect. Which I do willingly with love.
The day will come when I have to decide whether to tell them the truth or not. It will all depend on their frame of mind, and how they grow. As of now, I feel that it is the right thing to tell them when they are old enough to understand. I see no need to get into all the horrible details, just the facts. Time will let me know the correct decision to make.
We are trying hard to save the money to officially adopt them. We have permanently legal custody of them right now, and that’s ok. But we want the children to grow up with a sense that they are in a normal family. I don’t want them to think they are different from other children. I want them to have a mommy and daddy raising them..not a grandmother and grandfather. So, we are saving, because it’s very very expensive, more so than we thought. Or should I say, it’s more expensive down here in Florida then it would have been back home in PA.
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