Back from Ohio and here is the full story

Ok, we are back from Ohio and I figured I would share with you the full story about why we went down there. Carmen's Mother and her faternal twin sister Kim, found out several years ago when they were well in adulthood that they were adopted. This was discovered when their adopted mother, who they had always presumed was their biological mother, became ill and was hospitalized. Carmen's mother Karen and her sister Kim went to their mother's house during her illness; while there they both accidently discovered their very own adoption papers!

Needless, to say that was quite a shock for them, and it opened up the doors to all kinds of questions like, who is our real mother? Do we have other brothers and sisters? Why were we given up for adoption? etc. For several years Carmen's Aunt Kim had been looking for her biological mother, their adopted mother has since passed away. Because of the birth certificates they knew they were adopted from Germany but that made the search a little more difficult for them. Some how in an almost ironic twist of fate (God), Kim met a lady from Germany named Helga. Helga's, brother was a retired detective turn Private Investigator in Germany, when he found out about Karen and Kim's search for their mother he offered to help. Of course they accepted his help but, it was not an easy task for him either. It seems that Karen and Kim's mother herself was adopted so that made the genology research even more difficult. She had also moved alot in young adulthood so that made what records they could find difficult to track. Eventually the pot of gold at the end of this elusive rainbow was discovered.

Their biological mother had unfortunately just recently passed away a couple of years earlier but, they had a younger brother and sister who had been looking for them for years and had never known that they were in the United States. Come to find out their mother had always told them about their older sisters Karen and Kim who had been adopted; so they always knew they existed and had looked for them all over Europe. Speaking very little English, they made the trip to Ohio to spend about 2 weeks with Kim and we went up this weekend to meet them also. It was awesome to be in the presence of siblings who loved each other, it was as if they have spent a lifetime loving each other without knowing each other. It was amazing and a great way to start the New Year.