Our Girls and How this week goes down in History!

      I've told you about my girls… I imagine you know they are our world. Our family is pretty unique.  With H we have always talked about how families are all created differently. Family are the people who love you and will always be there for you. Sometimes family members are chosen, adopted, and sometimes they do share your DNA. H is her Daddy's girl, and I didn't expect this role in the beginning. Life happened though and it occurred naturally. I was challenged to be a better person and put another person's needs before my own. I just turned into a Mom because that was who she needed in our home. She changed my priorities. Of course since then we've added her brother and sister to the house so Mom is who I am. I have been there for H's many struggles that turned into her accomplishments. I have been given a beautiful gift! She is lively, fierce, beautiful, and intelligent! I love her with my whole heart and want to give her the world!

     How does this week go down in history you ask?!

    Well we always try to do what we believe is best for the girls. Any parent does. H has asked if she could change her last name several times. She wanted to share names with the rest of us. The process is long and hard in our case, but we were willing to try. It also was an opportunity to unite us as a family once and for all. So we ventured the road for me to adopt her. This week it was finalized! So we are celebrating this week every year forever! It goes down in history in this house!

    J and I will always try to be the best we can be. We will always weigh the odds, and question ourselves. We will always doubt that we are doing it entirely correct. Sometimes we follow our heart even when it seems crazy and it works out. This week is one of those weeks. We followed our heart, and we kind of just crossed our fingers and hoped and prayed that whatever happened was meant to be. I know I can speak for both of us when I say this feels right, and we are so glad its over.

    I may not share DNA with H, but she is my daughter in every single sense of the word. She was the first one to make me a Mom! Sometimes I try really really hard and still fail, and she knows it. We are family always and forever.

We called it Offically Nation Day. When I count my blessings on any day I will remember this day and how we were united. The most important people of my life.

-A