Ben
Praise the Lord! God allowed me to be Ben's mother and celebrate his first Mother's Day with him! At school Ben made this beautiful card along with a ceramic hand print. 
Adoption has two sides to it: great joy at the cost of great pain.
Yesterday I thought about Ben's birth mother and wondered if she was thinking of Ben, the little baby she never got to hold and kiss and cuddle. The baby that she wasn't able to bring home with her from the hospital because the world she lived in condemned him and said there was something too wrong for him to be fit to be her son. Does she live with guilt and grief? Does she have any peace knowing he is now in a family and no longer living at the orphanage? I don't know, but my prayers were with her yesterday.
I also thought and prayed for Jonah's birth mom. Totally different situation than Ben (we have an open adoption and constant contact with her), but I know Jonah's birth mom still suffered great pain when she made her decision to place Jonah for adoption. I am so indebted to her for allowing me to be mom to wonderful Jonah!
Jonah
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