from June 27, 2017 The sun peeks through the trees as I glance about the quiet, old neighborhood in the town where I was born. From across the street, I snap pictures of the house where my mother lived when …
Tag: adoption
Mystery solved: The Next Steps . . .
While my parents had years to ponder my “foundling” beginnings, to conjure up scenarios about the who, the when, the why, I have had but a few months to imagine the details surrounding my being left on a doorstep. I have …
The Final Piece of the Adoption Puzzle
from March 10, 2017 Two weeks ago today it happened. A new, very close match popped up on my Ancestry.com DNA results. Admittedly obsessed with checking our results daily, somehow neither my daughter nor I had checked for new matches before 1:15, …
The adoption puzzle pieces fall into place
from November 29, 2016 For the first time in my life, I celebrated my November 14thbirthday with 99% assurance of my birthmother’s identity. Thanks to the DNA testing results from Ancestry.com paired with the expertise and diligence of a kind-hearted …
The mystery unfolds . . .
from November 3, 2016 Most days I don’t think about it at all. It’s just a part of who I am. An accepted part. From a very early age—as long as I can remember—I concluded that whoever gave birth to me couldn’t …
Unraveling an adoption mystery
from October 12, 2016 When my daughter tested her DNA with an Ancestry.com, Christmas-gifted kit this past January, it was mostly to uncover her ethnicity and to hopefully add branches to the family tree she’s painstakingly built over the last …
The Making of a Family
from August 2016 I have always known that I was adopted as an infant. Same with my three younger brothers. Before we could truly grasp what it meant to be “adopted”, we knew we had been adopted. Seriously, my youngest …
