Pieces of the Perfect Puzzle

Nicole Kidman once said, "Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical." Nicole Kidman understood the inseparable bond that is a family, whether it's blood or not. My mom always said that I was special not just because I was born, but because my family had chosen me. They could have had any other child, but fate put me with them and it seems like we were all pieces to a puzzle that fit together perfectly.

My family is defiantly a testament to what an adoptive family is. I am eighteen and was adopted from birth, but in addition to me my family also adopted my little sisters who were two at the time; it's been a long road but they finally made it to fourteen.

I'd like to say that it's all fun and rainbows from the day that a child comes into your home and everything will be perfect and you will be the family that you always wanted. But it's not like that at all. From the day the child comes into your home you will have to work at it, whether they are just a new-born, to a child of fourteen. It will be one of the hardest things you will ever do.

But let me tell you it's one of the best things you will ever do. The fact that you took in the child and gave then hope and love is the greatest thing you can ever do in your life. Yeah, you might fight (okay just kidding, you will fight) but at the end of the day you will get just what you asked for, a family.

I remember when we first adopted my twin little sisters, I was absolutely furious! I always wanted a baby brother, but instead I got two girls! Because they never were given the proper attention they always yelled and screamed and threw little hissy fits. When I met them for the first time (I was seven) one of them bit me! I was so upset that I had to go through this. And it defiantly has been no picnic.

But now I am eighteen and a college student away from home. And my little sisters are two of the most important thing in my life. My parents are just as important, whether they are blood or not, I have never referred to them as "adoptive mom" or "adoptive dad" they are just simply my mom and my dad and they put our family and we make a perfect pieces to the perfect puzzle.