“‘I’ll Be Home for Christmas,’ sung by Michael Bublé, came onto the radio, and I had tears in my eyes thinking about another full bedroom in our home.”
‘I’ll never forget sitting in the lobby of the orphanage and seeing him come around the corner.’: Dad shares emotional international adoption journey
‘I’ve been putting the pieces together. Of our adoptions, our lives, and your death.’: Adoptee reflects on trauma of adoption in open letter to late sister
“One day the cycle of trauma will be broken, and we will complete this puzzle. I wish you were here to see it too.”
‘She picked you guys!’ His life brought two families together, forever.’: Mom shares hills and valleys that brought her to adopted son
“She said, ‘It’s a boy!’ I hugged her so tightly. Instant family. She handed us a tiny 6lb 5oz baby boy with the cutest lips I’d ever seen. The pregnancy may have been unplanned, but this little boy was no accident.”
‘At 1:00 a.m., the social worker, with four children in tow, showed up at our door.’: Foster dad shares complex and beautiful journey with foster care
“Every tear we shed, every late-night conversation with one of my bio kids serves one goal: getting a child back where they belong, with their family.”
‘I got a call about a baby boy.’ We were excited, but scared of getting hurt again.’: Mom of 3 shares journey through infertility, foster care, and adoption
“We were up against time, and we had to make a decision right away since this baby boy was across the country.”
‘What if I stick with our plan even though he’s gone? Could I do it alone?’: Young widow shares journey becoming foster mom
“Not only was I grieving the loss of my husband, but the loss of the future I was supposed to have with him. The family. The children. The life I had always wanted. My home felt empty and useless.”
‘There was ‘our’ baby girl, outside the courthouse, getting photographed on her adoption day with her family that was not us.’: Mom shares ‘beauty and brokenness’ of foster care, adoption
“My heart recognized her immediately. We were right back in that hospital room, meeting for the first time. Right back in our living room, rocking and feeding. My once upon a time little girl was right there.”
‘Going from no living children to 3 in 3 years was… a LOT. But I’m so grateful.’: Couple welcome rainbow babies, foster care adoption after heartbreaking loss
“These last few years have been far from simple. They have been filled with so many ups and downs; so much love, happiness, anxiety, and heartache. But they have taught me so much.”
‘Do you think…you could find my birth mom’s name….do you?’: Adoptive father shares difficulties of parenting kids with trauma
“Racism. Adoption. Birth families. It can almost be too much…except as daddy, I can’t let it be.”
Former Foster Youth And Orphan Is First In Family To Graduate College — Proves Anything is Possible
“I started harnessing the power from my story. Not everyone can do what I did.”