My name is Abby. I was adopted as a baby with my older sister. It has been over 30 years since that life changing decision my parents made to adopt. I feel blessed and honored to call them my parents. I am not saying it was a perfect family or a perfect life. I had a happy childhood and have become a happy adult. Yes, along the road of life we had our ups and downs struggles and learning experiences for us all. I do believe that being adopted you have some different views and challenges. I am not saying that the challenges are exclusive to people that have been adopted.

I look forward to sharing my and others thoughts, experiences, struggles of being adopted. Everyone will have different adoption experiences, journeys, thoughts, and struggles. It does not mean one person is right or wrong. It just means that we have different ideas and experiences.

My husband and I have also been blessed with the opportunity to adopt three children, in addition to our bio daughter. Being an adoptive mother is a bonus as an adoptee for me. I hope I can be a better adoptive mother by starting my children’s journey with being adopted. You will get to know my four children as time goes on since being an adoptee had an impact on my journey to becoming a mother. To be honest I had a lot of feelings to deal with when I became a mother myself.

I look forward to sharing my views, my experiences and those of others adoptee on this blog. Please feel free to e-mail me any questions that you may have or topics that you would like me to discuss. I look forward to getting to know you and reading your comments. Remember it is just one person’s view and we all have different experiences.