Christine (Chris) Bauer is a writer and marketing professional living in the Minneapolis area. "Those Three Words: A birth mother's story of choice, chance & motherhood" is her first book. She is thrilled to be sharing her story on the importance of choice and the beauty, pain & joy of adoption, marriage & motherhood. Chris' greatest achievement and most profound joy is being the mother of three kind-hearted children and one beautiful and spirited grandchild. In addition to being a mom and grandma of humans, Chris is also the proud mom to one very spoiled dog and two equally spoiled granddogs. She admits there were moments in the motherhood journey where she preferred the canines.