Swisters

The breaking news this week about Kay Rene is quite amazing.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Story?id=7580987&page=1 She graduated in the class ahead of mine and I remember her as being a sweet, funny person. Her mother and brother were quite small in stature and lighter haired than Kay Rene, yet one would never think she had really been switched with another baby. It is hard to believe that when one of the mothers questioned the baby brought to her, the hospital didn't do more to make sure she went home with the right child. Such a mixture of feelings the two women must be going through.

I'm glad that they are taking the stance, or at least Kay Rene is, that they are doubly blessed and are joining the two families, calling themselves swisters. Family is so important, but not just biologically. Family, at its best, goes beyond blood lines to provide mutual support, nurturing, humor, and love to each of its members. When I think of family, I think of a dynamic entity; always growing and changing. My biological family gives me both roots and wings, but the family I adopted when Don and I married join in to provide support and love as well. Now family has further evolved to include our children and the people they choose to be part of their lives.

How hard it must have been for those two mothers to be left wondering all those years. Living with the fear of having lost a part of themselves forever, yet falling in love and feeling fiercely protective of the little ones they had brought home from the hospital. Such a twist of fate.