Who am I?

Who am I? No one really. My name is Christie.
I once was a dancer, and a singer, how I miss those days. I am now a mother, an adoption and birth mother advocate. I like to make jewelry, and like to do basically anything on the computer (digital scrapbooking, making digital prints, etc). My husband and I love to play games and watch movies in our spare time together. We love new games and very old games, and love new movies. My kids love music, and love school.
I'm a mother of 3 beautiful children that I parent, and a birth mother to 1 beautiful boy that I placed when I was 19 - in 2006. I was in an abusive marriage for 5 years, then was divorced. I remarried my best friend from highschool, and am now happily married.
Being a birth mother is just one part of who I am. We all have many stories that make up our lives and make us who we are. But being a birth mother is a big part of who I am. I chose to place my son in the loving arms of his mother and father after painstakingly choosing them. I was not in a position in life to raise a baby, and so I chose to give him his best chance. I know not many people agree with my decision to place my child for adoption. Many people say I abandoned my child, that I gave up, that I have ruined my child because he is not with his "real" mom. You are all welcome to your opinion. Everyone's experience with adoption is different, and experience usually forms our opinions of things. I get it. But not everyone's experience is the same. I love my son, and am a part of his life, and his family and I are a family. It's an odd, extended and unique family, but we're a family. And our experience is abandonment or negative in any way. I choose not to be negative about it. I choose love, not hate. I choose to see the good side in life.
That is who I am. I am many things. I have many titles. But this blog is about the birth mother side. An open book.