Love this!!!!  My husband and I truly are the lucky ones here… But it’s true—my son is so very lucky that so many people love him.  It’s definitely been a whirlwind of emotions along the way and I love how you really succintly summarized this aspect. 

Love the post, thanks for sharing!
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Thank you so much for sharing!  Our family has been having a hard time with this during our recent adoption.  I, too regularly get on my soap box in support of the very difficult, unselfish, loving choices made by birthparents.  I also don’t know how to put it into words.  You did it beautifully.

Hey, that original post was mine! I was so glad not to be alone in my confusion on how to respond. Your blog really captures my emotions so well. Thank you for doing what I could not do. I’ll learn from it I promise!

Yesimin, what a great question to ask in the first place! Thanks for jogging my memory and inspiring me to write the post.

And lovebeingamom2, thanks for reading and your thoughtful comment!

This is exactly how i feel as well.. thank you for posting this, i always feel that i get put out as a hero, i am nothing more than woman that just wanted to be a mother so badly, i felt we where by far the lucky ones, considering we played for a child and got blessed with 3 in total through foster/adopt, yes as i learn more about my kids previous life, i do understand that wouldve not made it long in that life style at all, but i am so lucky every single day to have them in my life and love them with everything, just tell ppl when they tell me “how lucky they are to have you”, i say it goes both ways, we are egually as lucky here.

Thank You for sharing….This is exactly how we feel. We get this all the time. Someone comes up to us and tells us that our kids are so… lucky to be in our family. Sometimes I get so upset because we feel that we are the lucky ones. People don’t understand. Our kids have changed our live for the good…                                                      My husband and I are also foster/adopt parents of special need children and we also got to know the birth parents and their family. Our kid’s previous lives were not good, but the birhtparents and family did love them very much.It was only due to unselfish love from the birth familys that they are now in our family. So much emotions on both sides, but we Thank God very day that he has blessed us with our children.

We get this all the time, too, and I reply “no, we are lucky to have these kids”.  I have been saying this for almost three years, and it may finally be paying off.  Yesterday when our neighbor saw the four of us walking together he said “what a lucky family!” 

It’s good to know there are so many lucky families out there! Thanks for your comments, ladies!