“So, when are you going back?” I lost count of how many people asked when we planned a return visit to Maine, where our immediate family had marveled in the beauty of an east coast autumn while spending time with …
Tag: doorstep baby
Meeting the Bio Family: Chapter 8 — Dear Birth Mom . . .
Dear I. M. M., How do I begin a letter to you, my “first mother”? Hi, it’s me. The baby girl you gave birth to in 1963, now all grown up. Seems as good an intro as any other, don’t …
Read More "Meeting the Bio Family: Chapter 8 — Dear Birth Mom . . ."
Meeting the Bio Family: Chapter 7 — Aunt Donna and Cousin Honey
February 21, 2017, began like any other day, but by 1:30 p.m., the day lost its ordinary status when a message on our Ancestry.com account alerted us to a new, very close DNA match. With a few clicks, we determined …
Read More "Meeting the Bio Family: Chapter 7 — Aunt Donna and Cousin Honey"
Meeting the Bio Family: Chapter 6 — The reunion’s over . . . what now?
Even now months after our return from the 35th anniversary/family reunion/Hawaiian vacation, the memories of those first days and weeks back home are vivid in my mind. The trip home was uneventful. No mechanical issues or missed connections. The quiet …
Read More "Meeting the Bio Family: Chapter 6 — The reunion’s over . . . what now?"
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 …
Beth Steury, Author 