The First Written Wandering Thought

While I love talking, I also like writing! I can't remember what's been said in the audio, so I'll try not to repeat too much and be brief. I was adopted at 4 days old to a loving family and now am in the middle of two other girls, Candy 24 and Lindsey 30! I am 25. So, for 25 years I assumed I'd never meet my birthmother or anyone else related to me by blood. I was ok with it because I have such a happy life. I'm one of the few surviving eternal optimists. But regarding this, I really didn't think it would ever happen, though of course I had my curiousity. I was able to stuff that for the most part pretty easily, maybe because of practice or maybe because I just didn't care that much - not sure. Either way I did find them and get to meet them in March this year! It was beyond words, but details and descriptors are to follow in a book I am writing. This blog will share daily stuff about my contact with them and my "real" family. My adoptive family is my real family and always will be in my mind (and their's). For future reference, that is how it will be in this blog. The new family I just met are my birthfamily. Although, trust me, it's wierd having two families, this is how I think of them, so this is how I describe them. My birthfamily consists of (so far) two younger half brothers, Nat 23 and Geoff 20, my birthmom, Michele, and some really great grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins I can't wait to share more about as well. How can I be so incredibly blessed to have two amazing families? I do believe in God and this situation is a classic example of why.

First real thoughts today:
I was chatting with Geoff on Facebook today and he was actually less of a grump than he sometimes can be. I was warned before we met that Geoff wasn't as chatty as Nat might be or expressive with his feelings, but he seems to chat plenty with me, just his feelings are more negative most of the time, which makes me sad as I like to see people happy and stupidly continue to believe that I can change them into happy people like me, if I find the angle to work at... We chatted a bit about work, summer, and transportation. It was nice.

Yesterday Lindsey wrote me an email so sweet, I had to write her back right away! She is such an amazing support!!!

Nat and I text, chat, or talk almost daily, except for sometimes, and today he is hanging out with Laurel, his woman, not working and supposedly trying to find another job as his first one since moving home with Michele for the summer didn't seem to pan out??? I wished him luck. He is an optimist like me and doesn't sometimes realize that things don't always just work themself out if you let them, so it's kind of fun to see our similarities there, but I hope he puts a little more effort in and makes this happen. He has told me he wants me to whip him into shape when he comes to Oregon in August to live with me, so we'll also have to wait and see how that goes... Good times!

Met with Candy, Dad, and Mom for lunch today briefly at Sunrise Bagels, yum! It is my mom's birthday and we made some plans for Friday celebration at our house (who will bring what; the usual planning discussion for my family is what will we eat and where will it come from?), which I am looking forward to. I ALWAYS enjoy time spent with my family...ALWAYS. Seriously, I never don't have fun with anyone in my family. It's always been that way for me, since I was little. I just like them, which is really lucky I know! Now that I met my birthfamily, I could say the same thing, except it is true that I know why I was raised and am part of the family I am...there are a lot of good reasons that, as I stated above, make this obvious to me and obvious that God has his hand keeping me safe since I was a teeny fetus! More to come...