I needed a day to recuperate from the events of the weekend, but now I am ready to share them with you!

In short, our event for birthmothers this weekend was just amazing. Each year they seem to get better. We ended up with a group of about twenty five amazing women. We had young women and old women. We had women who were birthmothers to babies and women who were birthmothers to adults. We had birthmothers who had open, semi open, and closed adoptions.

We always begin our day with introductions and give the ladies a moment to tell everyone a little bit about themselves, their children, and their adoption situations. This brings up a few tears for some of the moms, but don’t worry we had plenty of tissues on hand this year! During the introductions, we also had them answer a fun, icebreaker type question so the mood didn’t get too heavy so early in the day. Since this year’s theme was Hollywood and the movies, the questions all had to do with movies, such as “if your life was made into a movie, what would the title be?” Or “What actor would be your leading man in your life movie?” Listening to all the different and funny answers was interesting!

We moved on to crafts where we each lady made a jewelry box and a bracelet. Some of the gals put these up for their children, one was going to share hers with her child’s adoptive mother, and others planned to put them in memory boxes that contain some of their adoption related memorabilia.

Next we had a very yummy catered lunch. Then our afternoon session began with three different speakers. One was an adoptive mother whose children each have open adoptions. It was neat to hear about the biological connections amongst her children and their birth families. We also had a birthmother share her adoption testimony with us. And last but not least, was a social worker who has worked with birthparents for many years. She talked about dealing with guilt and regret.

We also showed the Mark Shultz music video for the song he wrote for his birthmom, Everything to Me. We ended the day with a candlelight ceremony and then a big delicious marble cake.

We had such a diverse group of women, each bonded together by the reason we were all there; we are birthmothers.

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Want to read more posts like this?
Read about our candlelight ceremony.
Read my recap of last year’s Birthmother’s Day Event.
Read about a PAGE get together in February 2007.