“I was shocked. My heart was beating out of my chest. I hadn’t seen these faces since I was 16, leaving the hospital.”
- Love What Matters
- Family
- Adoption/Foster Care
“I was shocked. My heart was beating out of my chest. I hadn’t seen these faces since I was 16, leaving the hospital.”
“We’ve gotten: ‘Why didn’t you adopt a black child when so many black children need good homes?’ ‘You stole that baby!’ ‘Why didn’t you let that baby stay with his kind?’ Not once in my mind or in my heart did I feel as if Princeton didn’t belong to me.”
“‘I could never do what you do.’ That’s a phrase I’ve heard countless times, but I honestly wouldn’t change a thing.”
“I immediately started to ugly cry and told the principal, ‘You just don’t understand! You just don’t know what we’ve been through to get to this place!’”
“We started visiting Jeremy’s siblings. One visit changed my life forever. I felt a little tug on my shirt. His brother said, ‘Are you Jeremy’s mom?’ I said, ‘Yeah buddy, I am.’ Then came his crushing response: ‘Will you be my mom too?’ In less than a week, I was officially a single mom of three boys.”
“I couldn’t stop crying. All these thoughts and questions rushed into my head.”
“I could never have imagined our lives like this when I was little.”
“I vividly remember the crazy looks I got walking down the street with my huge pregnant belly and a newborn baby draped across my chest. I would probably stare too.”
“He has brought so much joy and happiness to our family, and he brought two people together that otherwise may have never met.”
“How do I tell my three boys, whom have formed an incredible bond with her, that their baby sister is leaving?”