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Home / Blog / Adoptive Family Stories

Five Years

January 30, 2019 by Guest Contributor

A teen girl smiles while looking back at her mother. She was adopted from foster care at 13.

It’s hard to believe that it has been five years since Hope moved in from her last foster home. In some ways it seems like it couldn’t possibly be that long; in other ways it feels like a lifetime

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Foster Care Adoption, News

14 Years Ago I Got “The Call”

January 7, 2019 by Guest Contributor

Catherine's son when he was around 1, wearing a tie-dye shirt.

On his birthday last week Tea (Sammy’s birthmom) texted to let me know she’d reached Sam to wish him a happy birthday. She said he told her he was “skating w/ a bunch of white ppl. Lol.” I wrote

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Infant Adoption, News

Raymani Wins Hearts Like a Superhero

December 7, 2018 by Staff Contributor

Sheena, Tyrai, Railyn, J.R. and Mani smile for a photo in their superhero t-shirts.

3-year-old Raymani and 5-year-old Jesse still talk about Dec. 14, 2017. It was “Big Brother Day,” a day when Jesse showed his new little brother how to build toys at Build-a-Bear and they went to

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Foster Care Adoption

Life Changes When You Adopt from Foster Care

December 4, 2018 by Guest Contributor

Ashley, Frank and their daughters adopted from foster care smile among pine trees in the snow.

During this season of giving we find ourselves reflecting on all the wonderful gifts we received this year---the greatest of which was the adoption of our bright daughters Sky (8) and Leyna (7). We

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Foster Care Adoption, News

Making Memories to Last a Lifetime on Tour Korea

November 27, 2018 by Guest Contributor

A traditional coastal city in South Korea is pictured.

There are many things to praise about Tour Korea, but I will focus on three: First, extraordinary staff accompanied us. A birthland tour for adoptees is not a typical sightseeing jaunt. There are

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Culture and Heritage, International Adoption, News

Adoption is What Made Us a Family

November 15, 2018 by Staff Contributor

Tasha, Peter, Jonah, Isaac and Chloe smile and laugh together on a bridge.

8-year-old Jonah and 11-year-old Isaac look forward to attending Adoption Day Camp one week every summer. They canoe, swim and play games to develop team-building skills. They and their fellow

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, International Adoption

Why Adopt?

November 14, 2018 by Guest Contributor

Tessa smiles with her daughter Priya on her lap. Her husband is next to her smiling at their daughter, Louise.

Why did we choose to adopt? This was a question we got A LOT when we started telling people we were in the process of adopting a child. The question that usually immediately followed, both said and

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, International Adoption, News

A Very Foster Christmas and an Adoptive New Year

November 11, 2018 by Staff Contributor

A picture of a street with holiday decorations and the words "A Very Foster Christmas and an Adoptive New Year, Dec 8 4 PM"

Joyful Noize Productions is putting together a show celebrating the foster/adoption community and YOU are the stars. They have an open call for story tellers who want to share their first-person

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Filed Under: Adoptee Reflections, Adoptive Family Stories, Birth Parent Reflections, Events, Foster Care, Foster Care Adoption, Infant Adoption, International Adoption, News

Reconnecting with Our Daughter’s Foster Mom

September 6, 2018 by Guest Contributor

A picture of Kara, her daughter, and her daughter's foster mother on a birthland tour to South Korea.

A Tour Korea Story We walked into the small, overheated room and 11 years melted away.  Our daughter’s foster mom looked at the 11 year old standing in front of her and started to cry. All of a

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Culture and Heritage, International Adoption, News

Discovering a Different Kind of Love through Open Adoption

August 23, 2018 by Staff Contributor

Ben, Wendy, Augustin and his birth mother are smile while sitting in a living room.

“I decided to trust that a child was out there, waiting for us. Now, I whisper in his ears when we rock at night, ‘I’m so glad you’re here, but what took you so long?’” Wendy said of finally realizing

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Filed Under: Adoptive Family Stories, Infant Adoption, News

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