A Story Of Adoption Continued...Chapter 7

I must apologise to my readers for taking so long to continue this story. I love and appreciate all the feedback, kudos and support I receive from so many of you. I am running a full time jewelry business ~ www.allisoriginals.com ~ and there are times when I have to put my writing aside to deal with work. This is my passion and love and I will always come back to it. Please, just be patient with me and keep checking in. Feel free to email me and bug me to write...the pressure does actually help!
So here we go...I am finally getting to chapter 7.
My flight to Edmonton was booked and there was so much I needed to do to prepare. My first thought was that I really wanted to arrive with gifts in hand for all 3 girls (Jeannie, Tania and Tasha). I wanted them to be special and I wanted them to be gifts that I put time and thought into. Something sentimental. For my sisters, I went to one of those do-it-yourself ceramic making stores and made them each something a bunch of little things. I remember enjoying the afternoons I spent making their gifts as it added to the excitement and anticipation of meeting them. It gave me time to think about them, focus on them and put all of my love into what I was creating for each of them. Ironically, I met a woman there who had recently reunited with her birth parents and she felt compelled to tell me her story and warn me of some realities of the relationship. She was the dose of reality I needed going into this new found relationship. I am eternally grateful to her for her words of encouragement and logic. She was so excited for me but stressed what a complicated relationship it can be and to take it all in stride. Her message stayed with me...still does.
For Jeannie's gift, I wanted something really special....really sentimental....this leads me to a story that I think will peak anyones curiosity or belief in the universal powers and forces that exist.
My Mother had left to me in her will, a beautiful diamond ring. It was a larger diamond in the center and 2 smaller diamonds on either side. When Ben and I decided we were going to get married, I asked him to please resize the ring my Mother had left to me and use that to propose to me with (when he was ready of course, really it was more romantic than I am making it sound!!. I guess in resizing the ring, the stones were loosened. The night of our engagement party I came home to notice that one of the smaller diamonds had fallen out. We looked everywhere...for months. We never found it. So we replaced it.
A year later I found the diamond sitting in a corner on my bathroom floor. How I even spotted it is still a mystery to me but even moreso, how did it not get swept into a dustpan all those times I mopped and swept my floors? I was happy to find it and put it away saying to myself "one day I will have a daughter and I will make something special for her with it"
So when I was thinking of the perfect gift for Jeannie the diamond came to mind. I thought it would be so special to make her a necklace with a pendant and have the diamond set into the pendant. A diamond that came from me and my Mom.
I had a jeweler make her a gold floating heart pendant with the diamond in the center and hung it from a gold chain. It was perfect!! An interseting piece of this puzzle.... A year later I had a pshychic reading. The psychic said to me "what is this necklace your Mom keeps talking about...she said she took a diamond from you. She wants you to knows that she took the diamond away and gave it back to you so you could use it to connect the 3 women, you, your bio Mom and your Mom." That blew me away!!
Then I thought it would be nice to make a video that I could bring with me to Edmonton. I wanted all of them to see where I lived and worked and who my friends and family were. For weeks I brought this video camera to work, friends houses, my families homes and had everyone record a personal message to Jeannie. My Aunts message was the most touching. I remember her saying "thank you Jeannie for giving Alli to us....and now...because you shared so well, we are happy to share her with you!" I had friends who had known me almost my whole life who recorded the most flattering and sweet messages to her about how much they loved me and appreciated having me in their lives. It was so special.
I got new outfits to wear for the 4 days I was going to be there. And I got my hair done!! I collected old pictures of me growing up and a video with clips of my family.
I did not sleep the night before we left. I was so nervous.
I actually kept a diary over my 4 days with Jeannie and the girls. I knew I would forget little details so I made sure to include everything.
In my next chapter I will tell you all about my 4 days and open up my diary to all of you!
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