These Are Our Daughters

The school pictures arrived home this past week and I was mulling over a post in which I showed off my daughters. Then I came across the post by Leslie over at www.guatemama-leslie.blogspot.com and it so fit my sentiments that I felt I just had to copy! Thanks Leslie for the inspiration. Hope you enjoy the few other snaps I snuck in too.

These Are Our Daughters

Based on a poem by Jill Work THIS IS OUR DAUGHTER.

We adopted them,

but we will NOT be

referring to them as

"our adopted daughters."

They are simply "our daughters".

THESE ARE OUR DAUGHTERS--

and the nieces of their aunts and uncles,

the granddaughters of their grandparents,

the cousins of their cousins,

and the sisters of any future children

we add to the family

by biology or adoption.

THESE ARE OUR DAUGHTERS.

There is no "return policy"

on an adopted child.

The whole idea of adopting

is a lot like marriage.

You make a lifetime

commitment to a person

with no biological

relationship to you.

You promise to "love and cherish"

for "richer, for poorer,

for better, for worse,

in sickness and in health-

as long as we both shall live.

"THESE ARE OUR DAUGHTERS,

and we ARE their real parents.

They have birth parents

(sometimes called

biological parents),

but we are their Mom and Dad,

and always will be.

THESE ARE ARE OUR DAUGHTERS,

and we love them.

We know that you will too!