Tonight, we reunited my bonus daughter with her biological mother.

When my sweet girl came into my life, she had been emotionally neglected and manipulated by her past step mom. We have spent the last year helping her work through some issues and she had been to counseling. Something still didn't feel whole about her. Her biological mother has not seen her or spoke with her in about 4 years. She made a lot of bad choices and spent some time in jail last year. I have spent the last couple months talking to my SO about reaching out to her and he finally did two night ago. He and I both spoke with her through out yesterday and today and today we sat our girl down and told her when had been in touch with her mom. We told her we would like to reconnect them and asked how that made her feel. She said she was "actually kind of excited". We talked about her mom and how she has been trying to grow as a person. We told her we felt she was old enough now (almost 9) to be able to choose for herself if she wanted to try to have a relationship with her. She said yes.

We gave her a letter that my SO had from 2017 and let her read it. She then sat in his lap and cried saying "I finally understand" over and over. She said "I feel like a missing part of my heart isnt missing any more", "it is like my heart has more colors now" "I didn't know this is why I have felt like there was a missing piece".

She had been holding back her emotions about this for so long. We would ask her about her feelings about her mom and she would say she didn't care. I told my SO I did not believe that. She really did care..she was just trying to be tough for so long. Her past step mom trashed her biological mom all the time. She made our girl think her mom didn't care about her or love her.

We explained people make mistakes and some need longer to grow.

Her is a picture of her in their very first video chat and conversations in 4 years.

On her own, she told her mom "I know some people need more time. I don't blame you. I forgive you." Needless to say..i think everyone cried so much tonight. She even told her she loved her and my heart felt so much joy for her.

I am so blessed to be a part of such a special little girls life and a part of this reconnection with her mom. Please send your thoughts and prayers to our girl that this works out. My girl deserves all the love in the world!