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The second grade teacher asked students to decorate a small ticket and to invent a sentence with the words: “Mother only has one”, To compose the souvenir that would be delivered to mothers on Mother’s Day. Behold, Joãozinho surprises and presents, along with the blue ticket with flowers and hearts, the following text:
My mother told me to get two beers in the kitchen, I opened the refrigerator and said: “mother, There is only one! “.
We are in 2025 and we can admit that this joke has aged. An anecdote ages when the context in which it was written does not correspond to the current context of those who listen or read it. Stories like the couple Rosa Helena and Eduarda prove that there are lucky families where mothers are not just one, but they can be two.
Duda, Esther and Rosa Helena, respectively / Reproduction
Rosa Helena is Acrean, but in 2004, she moved to work to Mato Grosso do Sul, where she met her current wife, Eduarda, in the city of Camapuã. Presented by a common friend, they met, started dating and decided to share life together in 2005.
12 years later, the desire to increase the family took over the heart of the couple, who began to mature the idea, thinking what would be the best possibility for the realization of the dream.
“We were researching the shapes, adoption or insemination, as we would, what we would do. So we opted for adoption. At the time, we lived in Mato Grosso do Sul, in the interior, and the judiciary was already much more open for adoption for homosexual couples. So, we felt a great welcome from the forum and the social worker that answered us,” Rosa Helena said.
ESTHER READY FOR RAMOS SUNDAY / Photo: Ceded
To adopt a child in Brazil, the first step is to look for the Childhood and Youth Court and register for the National Adoption Register. It is necessary to present documents and undergo interviews with social worker and psychologist, as well as participating in a mandatory preparatory course. If considered fit, the name enters the registration and the candidate awaits the child’s compatible profile.
“We chose it to be a child, regardless of sex, from 0 to 3 years. We managed to get in line the adoption and started to follow.” He reported, Rosa Helena.
However, the feeling of anxiety for this new journey present at the beginning of the process was giving way to a sense of disbelief and withdrawal. Because it is a sensitive and delicate situation, bureaucracy and resolution of every mechanism is often slow, leading people to wait for years in the registration line, which happened with Rosa and Duda.
“I remember until I thought it would be overnight and it is a process that is time consuming. We live in Rio de Janeiro, in Cabo Frio, since 2020, and nothing of the process. We agreed that by the end of 2023, we would get out of line, because it would be five years in line and nothing. And in January 2023, that our phone rang. And there was the moment that she was born.”
Record of the day the three met for the first time / Photo: ceded
Rosa and Duda traveled back to Mato Grosso do Sul to meet Esther. “When we got there, we knew she was our daughter. It’s the most beautiful thing in our lives and it’s the love of our life,” says Duda in a moving testimony.
Esther was eight months when he found the new home. Obviously adopting a child involves much more than love and affection – it also requires preparation and practical learning. This was the main challenge faced by mothers as they received little Esther, now almost three years old.
According to them, tasks such as medical care and wellness routine required adaptation and dedication. “It is in everyday life that we learn to be a mother, to teach values, to form a human being of good,” he said. Even with the difficulties, they claim that together they have overcome the challenges of raising a smart, loving and personality child.
FAMILY MEETING / Photo: Ceded
The experience of motherhood has completely transformed its lives. “The greatest lesson is unconditional love, the one that makes you give your life for this little being,” said Rosa Helena thrilled. With Esther’s arrival, the priorities changed, the nights of sleep declined, but the feeling offset everything. For her, the love received from her daughter is indescribable. “It’s too good. We would do everything for them – what is within our reach and even what is not,” he concluded.
Now, inspired by this beautiful story, we could tell Esther’s joke:
My mother told me to get my three pens to write a letter, I went to my room and said, “Mom, I only have two”
