Jill Robbins does something that you might find peculiar. Every year on Mother's Day, she buys two extra cards — but she never sends either of them.
About four years ago, she adopted her two sons from China. That first Mother's Day, she saw a special card for adoptive moms to give to birth mothers. She bought it, filled in the card with a special message, then put it in a shoebox in her closet.
Each year since, Jill has done the very same thing. But there's a heartbreaking reason why she can't put those cards in the mail: There is no such thing as an open adoption in China. If parents want to make an adoption plan for their children, they cannot formally contact an agency or a family who wants a child.
Instead, they must anonymously abandon their children, who are then placed into an orphanage where they can be adopted. Jill will probably never know who her sons' birth mothers are, though she dearly wishes she did.
“I’ve done this every year that we’ve had them. I write little snippets of what they’ve done and accomplished every year, what their challenges and accomplishments have been," she wrote on Facebook.
Jill's instincts tell her that these boys were loved even before she and her husband entered their lives.
"I know my boys' birth mothers waited and watched until their babies were taken to safety. I KNOW. I just do. I know they loved these children and I know their actions were something they deemed necessary. I don't need to know the reasons," she continued.
It may not be a perfect system, but if Jill can feel the love these birth mothers had for their children, perhaps somehow they can feel the love Jill has for them too.
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