Happy Birthday Mary
How do we make a family?
Each family is different. Some are traditional and have a mom and a dad. Others come spliced together with step-moms and step-dads.
Our family required a gift from a very caring and scared nineteen-year-old girl. She was pregnant and knew she wasn’t ready to become a parent.
God knew we desperately wanted a little girl to complete our family.
Sharon and Hal were in the family and I’d tossed Jennifer and Kevin in the mix, but something was missing, a loose thread. We were five, mom, dad and three kids.
On June 10, 1985, Deanna gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. She couldn’t bring herself to hold her. She feared she couldn’t go through with placing her for adoption.
Our little thread spent nine plus days in the ICU, low birth weight.
The adoption agency called us on 6/19, and we missed the call. I was out running and Sharon was biking next to me.
Her best friend, Evelyn took the call, drove over, and found us.
The next morning we picked you up in the back of a warehouse. That’s where the adoption agency offices were located.
Your mom cried, I might have too, but the love we felt as you slowly wound your thread around our hearts felt instantly right.
We drove home, making sure you were breathing as the miles clicked on by.
You made our family complete. We no longer were two families, but one and that’s the greatest gift you have given us. Your love has defined our family.
Your birth mom, yeah we share you with her. Wasn’t that cool when you turned twenty-one and you met Deanna for the first time and Chelsea your half sister. The three of you look like Twinkies.
Remember when you were four; you named your baby doll Chelsea. Chelsea was born the same year. How could anybody doubt that this wasn’t part of God’s plan?
You were born at the same hospital that your Godmother took her nurses training. You were born on our eighth wedding anniversary.
Wow, Happy 25th Birthday Mary Lake, our little thread.
Mary and Chelsea Dad and Mary 1997 Sharon, Mary and Daddy 1996
Love, Daddy
June 10, 2010 at 9:14 am
Thank you Daddy. I love it. And no, I’m not made. At least you put up pictures I could live with. LOL. Happy 33rd Anniversary to you and mom! I’d be so lost with out the two of you in my life.