What Makes a Parent?
Last week our family celebrated our adoption finalization. The Mister, The Nugget, The Munchkin and I all drove downtown to a very tall building and sat before a friendly judge to answer, once and for all, that we are ready to parent our beautiful four month old daughter. That we know, without a doubt, that she is ours and that no matter what happens in our marriage, she will be treated as our own. Naturally, we agreed. We never questioned this move to permanency. For us, the court date was the final check mark in a series of tasks that needed to be completed, but not a huge event because this little girl was already ours and we were already hers . Other adoptions may wait with more focus on that date because of the circumstances, but for us, there was no question. We have a relationship with The Munchkin's birth mother and knew that she felt confident in her decision. This got me wondering what makes me the mother of this baby in the first place? What makes The Mister