Finding Our donor....

Before we told our families, before we identified the facility that would help us have our family, we needed something all same sex couples need....A donor! We wanted someone with a free spirit and passion for the arts, much like Todd's deceased brother. Someone who also displayed academic achievement, and a love for life. We both enjoyed people like this and we felt a donor with these traits would fit well into the structure we could provide. That is the wonderful thing about going through the family process this way....it makes you think about what you want, and at some level you do have choice. We found a wonderful donor who we spent a lot of time with. We wanted to have an open donor where should our children turn us in 15 years and ask about their biological mother, we would have an answer. The donor not only was open to this but impressed us with her passion for life, intelligence and inner beauty. We had found our donor...