“I’ve looked at others’ family relationships and wondered, ‘What is that like?’ When Connie expressed how she knew what it was like to have a mother now, it touched me deeply. We’re creating our own family by the heart.”
‘We’re creating our own family by the heart.’: Woman adopts family friend from broken home, former foster daughter as adults
From Broken Bones To Healthy Home: How I Became An Adoptive Mom To Two Precious Sisters
“I got a call one day to take a 5-year-old little girl. Later that day, she walked into my house with a trash bag of clothes. She had head lice, body lice, and pinworms. She’d come from a dirty foster home where she said she was made to lay on the floor.”
From Single Man & Hopeless Foster Child To Forever Family: How Adoption Transformed Two Lives
“We became an official family, but he was my son the moment he walked through my door.”
How My Son Survived Shaken Baby Syndrome
“He will never want for love, attention, and experiences. He will never want for family. He will never lack the best care we can give him. He is my joy.”
‘I cried and cried.’: Adoptive mom in tears after school rewards trauma-ravaged son for his kindness
“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!’”