Every Mom Has A Journey towards becoming a Mom, at Last
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Last night, Mom at Last attended the showing of an amazing Adoption Documentary Film titled STUCK in Wilmington, Delaware. From the opening credits to the closing scene, STUCK is an honest, yet moving, film that explores the challenges faced by Birth Parents, Prospective Adoptive Parents – and of course, the countless children that are literally STUCK in orphanages, waiting for their day of happiness when they finally have their forever family. [Read more...]
Chances are, most of you spent some time yesterday celebrating motherhood. Flowers, sentimental greeting cards, big hugs, “I love you” phone calls . . . maybe even some Belgian waffles in bed. Of course, for women who yearn to be called “mama” but still have empty arms Mother’s Day can be a sad holiday. Today’s author, Sharon Simons, knows that feeling and wrote a book to celebrate all the world’s mothers, even those who don’t yet have their baby. [Read more...]
Once you have made the life-changing decision to adopt a new member of your family, one of the primary concerns is usually how to pay for it. It’s a myth that adoption is always prohibitively expensive, but administrative fees can still add up! The cost of adoption will vary greatly, depending on whether you choose to adopt domestically or internationally as well as the age of the child. Government tax credits can greatly offset these costs, but they are only available after the fact and may not cover the entirety of the adoption and travel fees. [Read more...]
We’ve added to our family tree, a stronger one to make…A child from another plant, has become our new namesake. [Read more...]
As a family, we’ve already harvested more blessings than we can count through the miracle of Little Tree. I am grateful to all those who have an active role in our real life story behind the story. Little Tree has already seen her dreams come true. [Read more...]
A woman’s struggle to become a mom is now universal. From celebrities to your next door neighbor, most of us know someone who wants to be a mom. Whether the roadblock is infertility, age, finding the right partner, or finances, many women have difficulty becoming moms. Fortunately, women today have many options to make their dreams come true including IVF (in vitro fertilization), surrogacy, and adoption. IVF and surrogacy have made significant advancements through the years and have helped many women achieve their goals. Also, adoption is much more open and accepted, not shrouded in secrecy as it once was. Adoption gives hope to the many children waiting and makes many families complete…. [Read more...]
My husband and I had a biological child and knew we wanted to adopt but also knew it was expensive. We decided to foster in hopes of it leading to an adoption. We had a handful of babies/toddlers come and go quickly but one newborn stayed for an entire year before his grandparents adopted him. It broke my heart when he left and I knew we needed to find the money and adopt. We decided at Thanksgiving and began looking for a toddler/pre-schooler in the foster care system but were having little luck. In February we spent the money and filed the papers to adopt from Africa when we received the call that there was a baby due in 2 weeks, 1 hour away and no one had applied for him. That’s all we had to hear. Two weeks later, we had a baby in the house! [Read more...]
I wish I could say that my adventure into adoption exposed me as an altruistic servant of God like so many adoptive parents whose stories I admire. But those touching stories of self-sacrifice are not how I came to adoption. I came laden with all the baggage a inwardly-focused, comfortable mother can carry. Actually, adoption had never crossed my mind until one March evening in 2000, when a sudden and seemingly random thought forever shattered my complacency. [Read more...]
This evening I have found myself wondering what the future holds for us as a family. The coming weeks will in all probability see us approved to adopt children, and we will find out if there are little ones waiting to call us “Mum” and “Dad”. [Read more...]
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