Tag: Adoption

When I was 13 years old, I found out I would never be able to have children. It was then that I started researching adoption. As I grew older my biggest fear was to have to someday tell a prospective spouse that I would never be able to birth our children. Then I met Jason. He was a single dad to 2 wonderful little boys and we fell head over heels.

"The last word pushed out by the momentum of his tears. My Mama heart ached, hating this place. My vision was blurred as my own tears filled my eyes."

"The thing is, I knew you right away. I recognize the fierce determination. The grit. The fight."

By the time she was just 23 years old, Katie had become a mother to 13 young girls whom she adopted and raised as her own.

"I left with the sound of her heartbeat in my ears and heart and knew once I walked out the door..."

"In 10 months time, we had gone from 3 children to 6 children, assuming our family was complete. But we were wrong once again..."

"It was a deep pain, probably the deepest of my life. It wasn't supposed to be this way."

"There were no photos from Stephen’s childhood at the funeral home. No images of the green-eyed boy with the sweet smile to remind us of what had been lost."