newbie here and just received contact from my birthmother

January 8, 2013

Hello, I'm 32 and sent my birth mom a letter last week. I did not expect a response, but the afternoon of 1/7 I recieved an ecard from her. :happydance: It seems as though she wants to continue contact with me and has thought about me often.

I was placed when I was three months old. I believe I was in foster care from birth, though I'm not sure.

In 2001 I contacted the adoption agency and my birthmom had signed a release of information form that allowed me to get her name and last known address. She had signed the form in 1985...when I was 5years old. I continued my search and found some addresses, sent letters and they were all returned to me. I gave up until this last year. I found some more addresses and figured I'd send a letter to the currently listed address.

Turns out she lives about an hour and a half away from me! In the same area that some of my aunts/uncles and cousins live!

I responded back to her ecard and added a link to a photobucket album that has some current pictures of me and my children. I'm hoping that wasn't too much. She also mentioned that I should be getting a card from her in the mail in a few days.

I've started a blog as well. There is only one post, as this all just happened yesterday! [url=http://www.rootingdeeper.blogspot.com]Rooting Deeper[/url]

I'm anxious to know if I look like her. If she still has contact with my birth father (who denied paternity at the time of adoption, I've located him as well...but I don't want to contact him, yet if ever.) I wonder if she held me after my birth or if I was given up right away. I believe she has a picture of me when I was 9 months. I was at my forever home September 3, 1980 but it wasn't finalized i court until a year later. (I'm in CA)

I did some research and found her on ancestry.com and she is really into genealogy and has a family tree laid out ending with her and dating back to the 1800's! For her relationships, she had a marriage with a man, and another relationship with another man and a daughter. I'm assuming that is me. I'm also assuming that she never had any other children as there were none listed.

I have so many questions. I don't want to spew them all at her as this is an overwhelming experience for both of us. I truly hope that we can have a friendship one day.