By Pamela Jane I Waited So Long For This Beautiful Daughter
I was in my 40s when my husband and I decided to adopt a baby. The adoption agency we registered…
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By Holly Kaeppel To Love a Child To Eternity
She lifted the young child into her arms and experienced, for the first time, a love so big her heart…
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By Kimberly Keys Dear Son, One Day Someone is Going To Ask You About Your ‘Real’ Mom
To my adopted son, One day, someone is going to ask you about your real mom. There are debates…
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Adoption is Never a Second Best Option
When my beautiful and perfect baby boy was just a few months old, I was at the grocery store picking…
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By Jacqueline Waxman God is in the Details: An Adoption Story
God. Divine intervention. God’s plan. As a person of faith, I have lived my entire adult life with this invisible,…
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By Jenni Conrady To the Hopeful Adoptive Mom: Your Wait Will Be Worth It
Dear waiting adoptive mom, Today was hard—I saw you. I saw as your eyes followed the baby through the room,…
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I Wasn’t Sure I’d Ever Be a Mom, But God Was
For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be a mom. I would have loved to have been…
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My Scar Reminds Me He is Faithful in Unexpected Ways
I have a scar on my lower belly. It's not from a C-section or a surgery that solved a medical…
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By Adrian Collins I Placed Her For Adoption At Birth, Then Adopted My Daughter Nearly Two Decades Later
Falling aspen leaves draped the sidewalks in brilliant yellows while my daughter and I browsed clothing stores and talked about…
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By Laura Niebauer Palmer The Moment We Saw Him We Knew He Was Meant To Be Our Son
Recently I was posed a question: “How in your life have you experienced the grace of God?” Immediately, my heart…
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To the Waiting Adoptive Parent, I See Your Strength
Dear waiting adoptive parent, I see you as you check your phone and e-mail too many times a day, wondering…
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Gotcha, For the Rest of Our Lives
The stout and stern, dark-haired judge scared the living heck out of us. She fired one question after another and…
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