29 Adoptions in Seattle Finalized on National Adoption Day!

Court finalizes 29 adoptions
By PAUL NYHAN
P-I REPORTER
Most parents meet their children in the delivery room, a few even earlier in their dreams, but Kymberli Nelson met her daughter Maci in the emergency room.
Three years ago, a foster care coordinator called Nelson to ask if she would take on the severely malnourished baby girl, though only [...]

Angelina Jolie’s Adoption Was Legal

Angelina Jolie’s adoption of a baby from Ethiopia was “legal” according to the agency that approved it in 2005. Recent news reports said a woman who claimed to be the birth mother of Zahara, two, wanted the child back.
But Dr Tsegaye Berhe, head of the Wide Horizons for Children agency, told the Reuters news agency [...]

Adoption Agency Accused of Negligence

Families who hoped to adopt babies from the Marshall Islands accuse the Utah firm of negligence
By Kirsten Stewart: The Salt Lake Tribune

Nine families who had hoped to adopt Marshallese babies through Legacy International Adoptions are now suing the Utah agency, arguing it lied to them and duped birth mothers into traveling to the United States [...]

Domestic Adoption Podcast

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

From their website:

Our friend Lindsey joins us in the studio to talk about her experiences with the domestic adoption process. Unlike our friend Sarah who adopted internationally, Lindsey and her husband Josh have had to endure (and are still enduring) many different and unexpected hurdles while trying to adopt a baby here [...]

Adoptee Meets Biological Parents After Series Of Coincidences

Couple’s Life Changes 25 Years After Placing Baby for Adoption
By BOB BROWN
Until the summer of 2006, Laurie and Chuck Thompson had shared a secret for a quarter of a century.
The secret dated back to their school days in 1980, when Laurie was a sophomore at Fort LeBoeuf High School in Erie, Pa. She played saxophone [...]

Presidential Proclamation for 2007 National Adoption Month

2007 President’s Proclamation
National Adoption Month, 2007
During National Adoption Month, we recognize the adoptive and foster families who have shared their homes and hearts with children in need, and we encourage more Americans to consider adopting young people of all ages.
Families who adopt show the generous spirit of our Nation. Every child desires a permanent home, [...]

Grateful

I’m grateful for my children because they have taught me so many things….even things I didn’t want to learn.
My youngest (my nine year old daughter that we adopted at age five) teaches me to not take life, or myself to seriously. She also teaches me about unconditional love and what that really means.
My middle one [...]

Adoption Poems

Any of these would look great in your child’s adoption lifebook or framed and on their wall.

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My heart felt something missing.
At the time, I didn’t know that “something”
Would become my reason for living.
I don’t know why our life together began so far apart.
How could I have known
A faraway land held the missing beat of my [...]

Nice Matters Award

As I posted before, I’m still updating the blog after being away and I wanted to thank Kathy at My Crazy Life for the “Nice Matters” award and also for the “nice” things she said about me. (no, I didn’t pay her-lol)
You can see it in the sidebar. Take a look…it’s pretty. Thank [...]

Halloween 2007

For Wordless Wednesday (#307)

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