Mother's Day 2012

In Korea, pink or red carnations are used for showing love and gratitude on Parents Day. Mother's Day and Father's Day are celebrated together in Korea.

On this Mother's Day, I received flowers, cards, and celebrated the occasion with family.  I cherished each and every moment, but my heart and thoughts kept turning to Emerson's foster mom and her birth mother - two women to whom I will forever be grateful.

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Dear Emerson's foster mom,

Happy Mother's Day to the only mother Emerson has ever known.  For the past 22 months you have raised her, made her food, changed her diapers, taught her how to walk and talk, played with her, taken her to her monthly agency visits, and on and on...  You have done so much, but most of all, you have taught her what a mother is.  You have been the one to whom she has turned to for love, comfort, and reassurances.  You have been her rock and her fortress.  You have taught her to know that when she's at home and with her family, that she is in a safe place and loved.

On this Mother's Day, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being Emerson's mother while I could not.  While my heart is overflowing with joy and excitement as we count down the days to bring her home, I can only imagine what you must be feeling as you are facing the same day, but for you it will be a day when you are letting go of the little girl you have loved and raised for almost two years. She has been with you longer than you could have imagined when you first brought her home as a newborn.

I am thinking of you with so much gratitude today.  Happy Mother's Day.

Foster mom propping up Emerson from behind at Em's first birthday celebration.