Comments on: Contest and Giveaway for Adoption Month

By: Dixiefern

Dixiefern — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:17:43 +0000

Adoption is the chance to share the overabundance of love I never knew was in my heart.

By: ninasimone24

ninasimone24 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:48:14 +0000

as a biracial adoptee adoption means being given the chance to have life instead of life being taken from you. it means giving someone a chance to take a part in the life of a miracle. it means witnessing the favor that god has placed on the life of a child who has overcome life's hardships. it means picking up where someone had to leave off.. it means the recovery of a yet undiscovered treasure that can only be truly found by walking side by side with and adding to the jewels already stored inside a child
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By: family4life

family4life — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:38:33 +0000

I believe that God brought my son Aaron to me. Adopting him was a way to teach me many things about the world and my self. Adoption was a to give me a family but most importantly was a pay to have me pay tribute to father that I lost when I 16 years old. There are so many ways to describe or define adoption but in my life it was a miracle of waking up after being lifeless. I could see the world in color, I could learn to love things about myself and others. This little boy taught me that I could leave my past behind. The abuse that I experienced had imprisoned me for years until I saw life through my child’s eyes. if you could give life another chance at 7 years old, so could eye. We now have taken in his nephew, TJ and this 2 month old life is uncertain but what I am certain of is that adoption is a clear cut victory for a child who needs a safe place to belong and God’s hand is on everychild. He may stay or he may go but I am deciated to keeping this family together. I have developed a non-profit that alows separated families to reunite and I know no matter where TJ ends up he will always be a part of Family for Life. My son will not have to suffer yet another loss. When you adopt, you adopt all of the needs, issues and challenges of the whole family. for more information on how i keep families together go to http://www.family4life.org

By: Kmo

Kmo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:24:51 +0000

Adoption is hope in the midst of despair.

By: doxie03

doxie03 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:57:41 +0000

Adoption is the best, and most rewarding experience to ever happen in my life.
It helped me become a mom to the most beautiful baby boy in the world. And, although my son just turned one, he will always be my baby–no matter how old he is. And adoption made that possible. I don’t know if I can ever truely explain what adopting my son means to me in words, but it’s a overwhelming feeling of love, vulnerability, trust, and awe all rolled together.

By: bing_6

bing_6 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:52:57 +0000

The longer I’ve been in this process, the more convoluted my answer has become. When we started the process I would have said that adoption was about building our family; about providing a home and parenting to a child who needed it. I would have said that adoption is about love; that it is about loving a child and about opening your home to a new life and a new culture. I might have said that adoption is about being aware of our whole world and accepting a teeny-tiny part in finding a way to ease the pain for just one who was suffering.

But the truth is, adoption is complicated. It is all of those things and so many more. It is about realizing how much love you have to give; it is about re-evaluating your priorities to make room (and funding) for a life other than your own; it is about preparing yourself for the worst, but hoping for the best; it is about sitting down to fill out mounds of paperwork; it is about sticking with it when times get tough; it is about being persistent; it is about hurrying up with your part and then waiting, waiting, waiting; it is about finding a way to keep going when you feel like a huge part of your heart is missing; it is about accepting your child and his/her birth family and culture as a part of your life; it is about answering lots of questions (sometimes really rude ones) from extended family members and curious on-lookers; it is about dreaming about your first meeting; it is about having an idea about what your child will be like and then finding out later that they were nothing like you imagined they’d be (or that they are exactly as you imagined); it is about love, acceptance, grief, struggles, first family moments, and lots more love.

By: pastormacsann

pastormacsann — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:14:57 +0000

Adoption is tough. Somedays, some moments, I wonder, "What was I thinking?" And then she wraps her little arms tightly around my neck and presses her chubby cheek hard against mine... and I remember.

By: waitingmama

waitingmama — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:07:52 +0000

As a step-parent adoptee, a mother through birth and a prospective AP, I see adoption as an opportunity to increase the abundance of love that we each share as family members. There are spaces within our family where our adopted children will fit. Even now in those spaces and from those spaces love is created and flows through each of us, to reach our children who are not yet home and from them to the world adding to the beauty of being human on Earth.

By: dr.mommy72

dr.mommy72 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:24:47 +0000

2 months after bringing my son home, I asked my 4 yo daughter how many more brothers and sisters she wanted. She started running around counting our beds – a bunk bed, a trundle bed, a full bed. She offered to sleep in my bed to make room for another sister – not quite a sacrifice if you know my daughter. So what is adoption? It is a way to fill up all of our beds and our hearts. I am selfish – being around my kids is when I like myself the most. They bring out the me I always knew was in there somewhere but struggled so long to find. When someone says that my son is lucky that I “saved” him – I try so hard to explain that it is sooooo totally the other way around.

By: mcmom1

mcmom1 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:56:56 +0000

Adoption is fate, it is destiny…I was destined to be adopted by my parents and become the person I am so that I was in the right place at the right time to meet my husband. My husband and I were destined to build our family through adoption. Four different times we were in the right place at the right time so that our children could join our family. Coincidences? We don’t think so. We were meant to be the parents of these four beautiful children.