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From an Adopted Child

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 This post is from Jenn at The Purposeful Mom .  I've been following her blog for several months now, and I was so excited when she agreed to write this post for me.  I hope you will visit her blog.  More about Jenn at the end of the article.  Since the time I was a tiny baby, my parents shared with me that I was adopted. They brought me home as a three-week old infant and rejoiced in the child they had been longing for. My mother read me books about adoption, hung a precious framed print (words below) about adoption in my nursery and shared with friends and family how God blessed them with such a wonderful answer to prayer. Found at:  http://katherineasbery.blogspot.com/2012/01/little-things.html I believe that my parents’ openness about my adoption helped me move smoothly through childhood with no doubts that my mom and dad loved me. I never had a moment where I believed I “wasn’t really theirs”. Often my mom would tell me that God had a very special plan f