Adoption awareness

Every year thousands of children and teenagers will be welcomed into homes of loving and supporting adopting families. Mothers and fathers who will provide boys and girls that will be their sons and daughters with security and stability. A safe environment with opportunities that may have never had. Together they ill learn to grow and love and become a family. My grand-parents were foster parents back in the day and while I am not a foster parent like they were I keep my doors open and let…

Adoption is joyous, yet not without grief. To better understand the complexity, read these 10 things to know before celebrating adoption.

Sharing my story for Adoption Awareness Month. Grateful my birth mother honored my right to life over her right to choose abortion.

First, a quick note, I wrote this post after reading an essay written by Lea Grover in the Huffiington Post, titled “Dear Less-Than-Perfect Mom.” The post by Lea was wonderful,Continue Reading

10 things not to say to your adopted children is great advice from an adoptee perspective. Be sure to check this out!!

'My son Wyatt (her adopted son) is all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether it's through your womb or someone else's.'-singer Cheryl Crow November is a special month for my (Becky's) family in many ways. Thanksgiving, deer hunting opener and my birthday are all crammed into an already hectic month. But another thing I love about the eleventh month of the year is the fact that it is National Adoption Month. Why is this significant? Because I am an adoptive parent! We adopted our…

Before you bristle too hard at the title, stick with me. Back when Milkman and I started our journey to welcome non-biological children into our home, it was with one goal in mind: adoption. We kne…