My heart is about to burst with this news - and there's no one around here to TELL!

This may seem insignificant to everyone else but me - but today the Minister of Finance cashed the cheque I wrote them back in August. The cheque was payment for an active search by the Adoption Reunion Registry for my birth mother. This means that the search has begun.

My heart is racing with nerves and excitement. I wonder what the outcome will be...