I feel compelled to address what most people wonder about when adopting a child into your family. So here are the most obvious questions....."Do you love them the same as your real kids? Is that really your daughter? Does she think that your her real mom?" These are the most common questions that I am sure that all adoptive parents get often. Since I am now qualified to answer them with experience here it goes.... YES,YES, and yet another YES!!!! Lila is as much a part of me as Jake or Cade and that is that!! When I met her in China I was her Mother and she my Daughter and that is what we will always be, what we were destined to be.I feel no different towards her due to circumstance.Giving birth to a child is the easy part, but nurturing that child is the where you earn the title of "Mommy". Her birth mother had to give her child away for her(being Lila) benefit and if only there was a way to ease her sleepless nights I would wish she could see her and know she will always be cared for,loved and treasured. Her sacrifice ensured our daughter's future and she could not have given Lila a greater gift.
So I can put it to rest because I too had wondered what it would feel like to raise a child we did not conceive physically but in our hearts and minds. Lila is the perfect fit for our family and even Cade is becoming much more caring towards her and made sure tonight that she would be getting a banana split too! Every child is a gift and only reflects the purest meaning of family and love!
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Not knowing what it is like to birth and raise a child, I didn't have this to compare to..however, I could not imagine loving our child any more than we do. There isn't a moment that goes by that I think she is not "ours" just because we adopted her...and, yeah!! for Cade and the banana split!!
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