One Year Ago! SO THANKFUL! (nine)

(My Dad and his eldest daughters.)

My family grew by 8 in one day! My sisters found us and with them we gained their husbands and two nieces and two nephews! It all started with the call Kathleen made. Then there was a search on facebook and I spotted a photo of Kathleen and Amber and just knew. We all took our turns contacting one another. Yes we where all a bit stunned but there was also a tone of being thankful; it was time.

(There they are! MY FOUR SIBLINGS! Funny thing about this picture is I am pretty sure Jesse is the tallest of the five of us and he is sitting while the other three try to look like the tallest!)

(ALWAYS wanted sisters!)

Amber joined facebook and as I helped her walk through that we got to know one another more. I still will scroll and scroll back to our very early communications and sit and read in wonder. My heart will probably always swell with thankfulness when I think of their families being part of my life.

(Kathleen and Amber catch up on their big sister duties, poor Jesse…)
(Amber being a bossy big sister… well actually we where playing some ridiculously embarrassing game the first time we got together, to help lighten the mood I suppose! Too fun really!)
(Sibling love, at our first rock concert together! The first rock concert is very important when getting to know family!)

What a wonderful way to be reminded to be so thankful for all the members of your family, even the ones you have always known and had regular contact with. We always knew we where a crew of five kids but to go officially from the three to the five was a dream come true.

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4 Comments on "One Year Ago! SO THANKFUL! (nine)"

  1. e-Mom says:

    Yikes! That’s an amazing story… but what happened? Did I miss something? Why have you just met your two sisters? God is SO good.

    (((Hugs)))

  2. Emom, to keep it simple (which obviously it is not) for the sake of their privacy, there was a first marriage and a divorce. My brothers and I grew up knowing ABOUT our sisters but to KNOW them is so INCREDIBLE.

    YES God is SOOOOOO good! Their contact came right after Dad’s cancer diagnosis and I know he in particular was praising the Lord for this reunion!

  3. Jenn L says:

    Dan just celebrate his One year anniversary of finding his birth family. Crazy times! Hard to believe its only been a year and yet it feels longer too.

  4. Yeah, Jen I never forget when he found his fam for that reason! I remember when we realized we had our reunions right around the same time:) Awesome!

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