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  • Adoption marketing? You have to shrink your entire life to sell yourselves as parents to birth parents? DON'T PANIC! Learn how to attract birth parents.
    Adoption

    Adoption Marketing – How to Attract Birth Parents to your Profile

    April 3, 2017 /

    Adoption marketing? It sounds scary. You have to shrink your entire life into a brief letter or booklet to sell yourselves as prospective parents to birth parents. DON’T PANIC! Learn how to attract birth parents to your unique qualities as a family in ways that are as warm and genuine as you are. Long ago, adoption agencies used a list. When a couple was approved as a waiting family, they went to the bottom of the list. Once at the top of the list, they were matched with the next baby surrendered to that agency. (this site uses Affiliate links-purchases support our ministry through a small referral fee that never…

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  • I tried to write a piece reflecting how amazing adoption is, but I've yet to find the words. All I can say is adoption made us a family. Happy Adoption Day!
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    Adoption Made Us Family: Adoption Day

    November 19, 2016 /

    Today is National Adoption Day. I keep hoping to write the perfect post that reflects just how amazing adoption has been in my life, but I have yet to find words that do this journey justice. While this was originally written on National Adoption Day 2016, it rings true for today and every day since the day we first saw her in the NICU in Texas. All I can say is adoption made us a family. Last fall, I was watching the Michael Weatherly drama Bull. The episode featured a woman who went into surgery expecting to come out with her ability to carry a child restored, but had to…

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  • I didn't rescue her, she helped rescue me. She is my starfish & I am hers. This World Adoption Day we soak up our time together, knowing it's just a season.
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    World Adoption Day – My Starfish

    November 9, 2015 /

    I always hope that I’m going to have something inspirational ready to post on World or National Adoption Day, but here it is, and I don’t know what to say this year except being an adoptive mom makes me .  .  . a mom, maybe not the same kind of mom as someone else, but the one I was meant to be. Having a biological child was never possible for me, and I’ve grieved that loss. Yet, I realize now, that if I had given birth, I wouldn’t have the daughter I do today. I might not have pursued adoption the way I did. And my daughter is perfect, sometimes…

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    Just Another Day – Waiting with Hope

    March 23, 2015 /

    Waiting with hope for answers to prayer can be the toughest challenge of our lives. We wait not knowing what the answer will be or when it will come. We try to have faith in the waiting. But what does the day before your miracle look like? Just another day. After a long cold winter, maybe I’m just ready for some sunshine, but I have found that I’m usually seeking HOPE when I come to this special day on the calendar. My verse of the day was this sweet promise in my devotional this morning. This verse was so encouraging in my present circumstances, praying for my own healing and…

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    March 27, 2014
    Mother's Day is full of perfect images, but we're imperfect and that's how God's plan works best.

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    Adoption – The Cost

    November 26, 2014 /

    Adoption costs are part of the journey many avoid discussing. However, few people are truly aware of or prepared for the adoption costs. Families come to adoption in various ways, after long infertility battles or even as the way to grow their family by choice, or desire to give a family to a child in foster care. This is only our story and experience. Seven years ago today, we officially started our adoption journey with our first conversation with an adoption facilitator and our first sticker shock. I went from excited to defeated in one call, but we had a plan. We don’t want to think about the costs. It…

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