nothing like it
..... I think what you guys are doing is great. I just hope that someday you can have a daughter that looks just like you. Because there is nothing like it...... These words were spoken to me when we first announced we were adopting. They hit me like a knife and continued to haunt me for years. And then it happened. I gave birth to a little girl. A little girl with an undeniable resemblance to me. As she grows, the photographs of our childhood look more and more like the same child. I now have a daughter who many people think looks "just like me". And I have discovered something. Something that only a mom of both biological and adopted daughters can discover. My heart cherishes my first memories of a little brown leg draped over my white arm and those big brown eyes staring at my own green ones. And it also holds a precious moment of seeing a reflection in a mirror of a tiny face that reminded me of my own. There is beauty in both. As my girls grow, I love