Welcome

We set up our adoption blog so you can get to know our family a little better. I started blogging back in 2007 and have kept up with it over the years. At the end of every year, we print off our blog for that year and give it to Daniel's mom for her Christmas present. She keeps all of her children's yearly journals in a notebook that we will get back one day to pass down to our kids. I try to keep it up to date as much as I can.


When we decided to start the adoption process, I decided to make an identical blog for birth mothers to read. Everything that I write about my family on our personal blog, I copy it over to my adoption blog. I understand that an adoption profile only gives limited information about us and we want you to have the opportunity to really get to know who we are and what we like to do as a family. Our adoption blog will show you who we were even before we adopted our boys. Feel free to read as much as you want or click on the links up above!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

National Adoption Month

November is national adoption month and it is also the same month that we started our paperwork to adopt! I still can't believe that was a year ago.

This has been a long year but a great one. Daniel and I have been so blessed! I still can't believe that we got TWO beautiful babies that are healthy and so happy.



They are really noticing each other now. The other night, Daniel laid them down next to each other and they started laughing and smiling at each other. Love it!

Talon had his 4 month check up today. He weighed 15 lbs and was 26 inches long. Carter weighed 1.6 lbs more and was 1/2 inch taller than Talon at his 4 month appointment.

I found these adoption poems on the FSA (families supporting adoption) website and thought I would share.

Not flesh of my flesh

Nor bone of my bone

But still miraculously

My own.

Never Forget

For a single minute:

You didn't grow under my heart

But in it.

Legacy of an Adopted Child

Once there were two women

Who never knew each other

One you do not remember

The other you call mother

One gave you a nationality

The other gave you a name

One gave you the seed of talent

The other gave you an aim.


Two different lives shaped

to make yours one

One became your guiding star

The other became your sun.

One gave you emotions

The other calmed your fears

One saw your first sweet smile

The other dried your tears.

The first gave you life

The second taught you to live in it

The first gave you a need for love

And the second was there to give it

One gave you up,

It was all she could do.

The other prayed for a child,

And God led her straight to you

And now you ask me through your tears,

The age old question through the years;

Heredity or Environment, which are you a product of?

Neither my darling, neither

JUST TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE

-anonymous

I love adoption and I am so grateful for the wonderful birth mothers who picked us. It does not matter to me at all that I did not carry them for the 9 month or give birth to them. They are my boys and I love them with all my heart. There hasn't been a day go by that they haven't made me laugh or put a smile on my face. I waited a long time to be a mom and the wait sure was worth it!