adoption

Adoption proves that sometimes, you can choose your family; all about the process before, during and after adoption.

THE GOOD - THE BAD - THE UGLY
The next few parts to this story have been edited from four articles originally written for the newspaper of a small Washington town where I lived. MANY years had passed and now, after my unrelenting years of detective work, tears and frustruation, things had actually paid off!
By Linda Gorsuch4 years ago in Families
10 Things I Learned from Having an Infant
I always saw the babies on television and thought that they were so cute, and don’t get me wrong, babies are cute. However, they are a lot of work too. Therefore, I decided to write a couple of tips down that might have helped me along if I had to do it all over again.
By Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue4 years ago in Families
Who am I? Part 3
The day had finally arrived. I had already been married for 6 years and we had our own apartment. I was going to meet my birthmother for the first time with no interruptions and no shame. I saw her limo pull up in the parking lot and then heard her walking up the stairs. This was it! I was going to open that door and see her, finally! I opened the door, and there she was. We fell into each others arms. How strange her skin felt like mine, I recognized her scent. I found that so very weird, but it was real somehow.
By Sue Julie4 years ago in Families
Who Am I? Part 2
I was told I was adopted when I was 8 years old. I was told that information was a secret and not to tell others, leaving me feeling isolated and different from everyone else, including my own family. When I was finally out of school and working in my own office and getting my own mail no one else could see, I started my search for my roots. Nine years later after much research and many disappointments I finally was about to give up and made a deal with our maker. I said to him "I'm done, maybe I should have never started this, it's almost my birthday, one more week, if I hear nothing from all the calls and letters I've sent out there in the world by my birthday I will take that as a sign to just stop".
By Sue Julie4 years ago in Families
Who Am I?
I had just turned 8 years old. Just a week before, I was excited because my parents told me I could get that puppy I always wanted. And to boot, I was also getting my ears pierced! I was so lucky I thought myself. One day around that time, my mother sat me down in our lovely azalea filled backyard and she had me all dressed up in a dainty dress she had bought for me. I was always nicely dressed as matter of fact. She began telling me about my birth. She explained I didn't come from her belly, but instead I was a "chosen baby". She told me how they went in a special room with many babies and they chose me! But at the end of that conversation I was instructed I could never tell anyone that information. I thought to myself, "if I am so special and chosen, why is that a secret?"
By Sue Julie4 years ago in Families
Generational curses we broke
Hair day, this means take them braids out and bring the comb! Seeing the look on LP's face said...this isn't my favorite part..
By Reddie4 years ago in Families
The Hurt Behind The Smile
The picture at the top of this story is a bit blurred on purpose. Initially I sought to change it but, I realized that sometimes our lives may seem blurred. You see things that don’t make sense and your mind just can‘t focus upon them. So many things in our daughter’s life seem to be just a bit unfocused. In the midst of those times there was always love.
By Dale Austin 4 years ago in Families
Adoption
I don't hear many stories coming from a child who is adopted so ill like to share mine. I was 6 when I was taken into the Foster System and yet I could remember how my life was before then. A sudden change can affect a lot in your mind and in your memories. I'll say one of my worries is losing those memories of who I was before I was adopted, memories with my biological mother.
By Elijah 4 years ago in Families
Should You Have an Open Adoption?
When you decide to adopt a child, there are many different options that you may not have ever thought of. You might want to adopt a child from another country, though there are plenty in the United States that are available also. You may want to find one who has some special needs, because you want to give him or her the best life possible. There are even times when you can choose to adopt a child, while the mother is still pregnant.
By Shelley Wenger5 years ago in Families
The Long Journey Home
The last thing I remembered before the sun went down were the fields of sunflowers. Ukraine was known for its sunflowers. I remember the nervous smile of my husband standing in the doorway of the old, weary bus we were traveling on. I remember the sweet babushka sitting near the window in the seat next to me. It was sweltering hot on the bus. I had a small rechargeable fan clipped to the seat in front of me, but even on high, it did little more than force the hot, stale air to move around me sluggishly. Here I was. Sweating, starving, and nervous jumping all over a pothole-riddled road on a bus in part of the former Soviet Union, now a proud independent nation. I would have been miserable save for one overwhelming detail. Tomorrow I was going to meet my daughter.
By Jerene Buckles5 years ago in Families
Struggling to live
The struggles I faced as an adopted child This world is full of challenges and struggles everyday of one’s life. This world does not offer peace but on the contrary. You never know what you will face when you get up in the morning that is if you do get up. Being an adopted child is no different. We face a world of unanswered questions and no answers. What did I do? Why does no one love me? Where do I go from here? When will I be with someone that loves me? In this essay, I hope to shed some light on why this happened to me and what life has been like being an adopted child.
By William Holt5 years ago in Families
My Story
Hello my name is Kianna Hess and I am an ordinary girl from Alaska. I was born in Alaska and raised in Wyoming. I was adopted out to Cheyenne, Wyoming with one(1) of my biological siblings. I have 5 biological siblings that I truly love with all of my heart. With my adopted family there are eight(8) other siblings. Did I enjoy my life with my adopted family? If you ask me I would not because of how they treated my brother and I. My brother and I were treated so badly by the adopted family that it affects our lives now after 11 years of being with them. There was so much abuse that my brother and I went through well being with the adopted family not only does it affect us, but it affects other biological siblings. The adopted family wants my brother and I to talk to them because they miss you supposedly. I personally don’t believe it because of what they put me through and not only me, but my brother also. I am grateful for the time I had with the adopted family, but I will never be able to forgive them for what they have done to my brother and I. Life after leaving the adopted family has been so much better for me. Can’t speak so much for my brother, but I can say that he is a better person than he was before. I graduated high school in 2016 and I moved back up to Alaska to see My biological mother after 11 years of not being able to see or hear from her. I am a Momma’s girl. I love my Momma with all of my heart. I was so excited to see her after 11 years. Of course there were tears from My Momma and I. I was able to sit down and talk to my Momma and tell her everything that has happened to my brother and I. Let’s just say there were alot of tears and sadness coming from my Momma and I. It was very hard for me personally to tell my Momma what happened in Wyoming because I am very personal and don’t like to talk about the bad things that happened to my brother and I. But one(1) of the lessons that I have learned from my Momma is to open up and talk about things even if it is hard. Life for me now has been a blessing because I am back with my biological family and in a relationship. God has been a huge blessing in my life and I am forever grateful for what he has done for me, but also my family. Being adopted was hard for me, but it has shown me what to be grateful for in life because a lot of people don’t have the opportunity to be or get adopted. There are alot of kids who don’t get the opportunity like I did, so that’s why I am grateful for getting adopted despite the things I went through just to get to where I am today. Being taken away from my Momma was hard on me, but I wasn’t the only one. It was hard on my Momma, my two(2) brothers and I. We are much much closer now. The End!!!!! I will be continuing this Chapter later, so if you like please let me know and I will gladly start Chapter 2. Thank you for taking the time to read my story.
By Kianna Hess5 years ago in Families