When you have adopted children there are certain things you do not know such as the biological medical history. This is especially true when you adopt a child from child protective services like we did. We have been asking the biological mother for birth family history since we first met her during the medication of Rebecca. As I have mentioned in the past the biological mother voided the mediation agreement when she disappeared and our letters kept getting returned. I tracked the biological mother down a few times already and asked her for the information but she has repeatedly failed … Continue reading →

When I think back to this week I always refer back to the joy and happiness of my first Christmas as a Mom. I remember Steve who was 3 lying under the tree looking up at the lights. There was many nights that we would get up to check on the kids and the Christmas tree would be on and Steve was just curled up under it like our cat does. I know that he had a very hard young life and so we wanted this to be an absolutely amazing Christmas for him. I will admit we did go … Continue reading →

Before I left work that wonderful day I told my coworkers what was happening and that I did not have any baby items. One of my coworkers called his wife who called all her friends and they showed up that night with 8 huge bags of baby girl clothes, a Bebe’ Chic crib set, baby bottles, a bassinet, monitors, swings, infant car seat basically everything a new mom of a newborn would need. After the shock of everyone’s generosity we started going through bags washing and hanging things for our new daughter. At 9:00 the next morning the doorbell rang … Continue reading →

I am sitting here thinking back to 9 years ago this week when child protective services called and told us that the two brothers that we adopted in July 2002 now had a beautiful little girl and asked if we wanted her. Now we just got the boys 5 months before this call came. Ok so you don’t know me but if the biological mother of our sons had 10 kids we probably would have said yes. When the call came I was work when a case worker called and said the boys’ mother was in jail and she had … Continue reading →

Continued from: My Journey to Become Your Mother. Makala, When mommy and daddy were talking about getting married we were still young enough to have a family but, made a choice that we wanted to adopt our children. We decided that in our hearts we didn’t care if our kids were born to us or if they had another birth mother. We knew we would love our adopted kids just the same as we loved Sean and Tori. We took our time deciding how we would find the children we would adopt in our family. We could pick anyway we … Continue reading →