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Repost: To the mom who doesn't feel like a mother, yet (and the other moms too!)

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Too good not to share! Reposted from Katie Davis' blog,  On Earth as it is in Heaven . It seems to be the lament of many adoptive mothers I meet, “I didn’t really feel it.” Somewhere along the line, adoption has become associated with the myth of “love at first sight.” I surely cannot say that no one feels this, but I can say that not everyone does, and not everyone has to. Because the truth is, love is a thing that grows. I am sure there is truth in the stories that many tell of that moment they saw their child for the first time and knew instantly that God had ordained him to be theirs and fell in love. But I think so much more often, the action of love precedes the actual feeling.  I knew many of my children months or years before I became their mother. When I first met them, I had no idea that this would be a bond we would share. Even when they first moved in and we filled out the foster care papers, I was tentative. I didn’t really feel like a mother, I felt like a

Mother's Day 2015

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Happy Mother's Day to all the Super-Mamas out there! Hope it's blessed!