Below is a beautiful letter my husband wrote to our foster baby.
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This precious letter of love touched this adoptee, former foster child’s heart. I hope “Sweet Pea” will truly be able to read it someday. It’s SO SO very important that she does not miss this treasure. See, we adoptees who have an “unknown” past, often fill in the blank pages of our broken narrative and sadly the story we imagine is that we were “left again”- that it had something to do with us. We were not good enough, not pretty, cried too much, etc. As young & innocent impressionable baby, our heart breaks in pieces as love bonds are broken, and that separation is forever imprinted on our emotional diary. Sitting at the feet of hundreds of adoptees as a support group faciliator for over a decade, I hear the same words echoed over and over again-” I just want to know that I really was loved, important, that I mattered, that they remembered me, or thought about me on my birthday. So many would pay large sums of money, or spend years in a desperate search to have a priceless letter like this from their birth parent or foster parent. No one but the child knows how priceless this letter would be to them- and from what I have witnessed from observing adult adoptees, would speak VOLUMES to “Sweet Pea” some day.
I’m thankful to share that the judge decided that Sweet Pea should stay with us and next month will become our forever daughter!
Oh how wonderful Julia! God is So good and “Sweet Pea” will be so blessed through your loving care and compassionate nurture- REJOICING WITH YOU and SWEET PEA! Weeping may come for a night, but JOY comes in the morning!
This precious letter of love touched this adoptee, former foster child’s heart. I hope “Sweet Pea” will truly be able to read it someday. It’s SO SO very important that she does not miss this treasure. See, we adoptees who have an “unknown” past, often fill in the blank pages of our broken narrative and sadly the story we imagine is that we were “left again”- that it had something to do with us. We were not good enough, not pretty, cried too much, etc. As young & innocent impressionable baby, our heart breaks in pieces as love bonds are broken, and that separation is forever imprinted on our emotional diary. Sitting at the feet of hundreds of adoptees as a support group faciliator for over a decade, I hear the same words echoed over and over again-” I just want to know that I really was loved, important, that I mattered, that they remembered me, or thought about me on my birthday. So many would pay large sums of money, or spend years in a desperate search to have a priceless letter like this from their birth parent or foster parent. No one but the child knows how priceless this letter would be to them- and from what I have witnessed from observing adult adoptees, would speak VOLUMES to “Sweet Pea” some day.
I’m thankful to share that the judge decided that Sweet Pea should stay with us and next month will become our forever daughter!
Oh how wonderful Julia! God is So good and “Sweet Pea” will be so blessed through your loving care and compassionate nurture- REJOICING WITH YOU and SWEET PEA! Weeping may come for a night, but JOY comes in the morning!
=) Sweet Pea is blessed!