#NationalAdoptionAwareness Month. S is for #Similarities

Over the past 13 years I have heard how much Lil Miss looks like me, and some have called her my Mini-Me. We both have blonde hair, blue eyes and same body shape. As she ages, I can often remember what I was doing around the same age. A couple years ago, she entered the age in school where students are encouraged to pick a musical instrument. Later that year, when I was at our yearly visit, I had asked her what she had been up to. She explained that she had chosen to play a musical instrument and was in orchestra. I asked her which instrument she chose and she said, “violin” and my heart skipped a beat. I played violin from 5^th grade clear up through my senior year in high school. She or her mom N had no idea that I played the same instrument. My mom and grandma have told me that Lil Miss and I have the same quiet nature, if one is comparing the two of us at the same age. It just makes me smile to know that while I am not parenting her, nature still holds true onto many aspects of our two lives.

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