Adoptive Families Misses You!

Amy - posted on 12/08/2010

Nice to meet you both Maria and Kelly!

Maria - posted on 12/08/2010

Hi, I'm Maria....
Both my husband and I are in the process of expanding our family. We already have two biological teenagers (ages 15 and 12) but I've always dreamed of having a big family (about 5 kids total). Unfortunately due to some complications having my kids back in the day, I'm not able to conceive anymore, so we've decided adoption would be great for us. We know there are so many children out there that need a home and a family that can show them lots of love and support and we feel we can offer that to them.

We have already began the process of adoption by completing the required MAPP classes in our state. We understand that there is alot of paperwork involved and we're only half was through that but when it's all said and done its going to have its rewards.

We are extremely excited about adoption and my kids are completely on board, especially my daughter, she really wants two more little sisters. LOL...They already have the sexes of the kids picked out....two girls and 1 boy....go figure...but we're excited that they are excited. It makes this process a whole lot easier.

We also every year join the Walk 4 Love which is to show support for adoptive families and families in the process of adoption. We've got to meet so many great people and had such a great time.

Thanks...

Maria

Kelly - posted on 12/07/2010

Hello! I'm Kelly!
We brought home our beautiful daughter at 2 days old and just finalized, and 3 1/2 months, last week! We're in an open adoption with our DDs bmom and cherish that relationship. I've been amazed at how my heart has changed toward open adoption. I always thought I would only want semi open, but now I can't imagine not having the relationship that we do. Anyhow, it's still VERY early on, but eventually we will start the process over to add to our family and at that point decide whether to do domestic again or international. I think I would like to foster later in life when I have more life experience myself, more patience and, like Amy, when I'm ok with my family being "done". But, for now, we're just soaking up every moment with our precious girl!

Amy - posted on 12/06/2010

That's amazing...we didn't see either of our son's births (Matty was 3 months old when we adopted him!) and that is something I miss. It sounds like you have had a smooth finalization process if you have her BC by 10 months old! We didn't finalize Tyler till he was 11 months and Matty was over a year old...both their BC's took months to come after that. Some states are better than others I guess :)

Maggie - posted on 12/06/2010

We just got our daughters birth certficate today. Domestic adoption. She is just about ten months old! We watched her come into this world and have been with her ever since!

Amy - posted on 12/06/2010

Nice to meet you Gidgit!

We adopted twice domestically and are weighing our options for our third adoption right now. We hope to get started just after the first of the year!

When our kiddos get a little older I'm hoping to do foster care. If it leads to adoption later, that would be great, but I need to be in a place where I'm okay with my family being "done" if it doesn't go that direction too. Right now I'm still growing my family, so I think I would have a hard time supporting reunion.

We are in Massachusetts. My boys were born in Missouri and New Jersey.

Gidgit - posted on 12/06/2010

Hi! I'm Gidgit,
I'm a Kinship/relative adoptive mom. My sister gave birth to my Darling Daughter. We are in the process of her adoption. She just turned one and has been with us since the moment she was born. We plan to adopt from foster care at some point as well, since that was our original plan.

We have been foster parents as well and have 8 years experience with that kind of thing. Our Oldest came to us through strange circumstances and she has had some challenges but even now that she is 23 we are helping her learn her way.

We are in Oklahoma