Aside from a few weekend getaways, my husband and I have never taken an extended vacation together in the seven years we’ve been together. I am pretty content at home...
Before I knew we’d struggle with infertility, I imagined a June baby. My husband and I both have June birthdays. A baby born in the same month as us sounded...
Adoption. When you hear the word, many picture this beautiful love story of a child in a war-torn country, living in a run-down orphanage being welcomed into a picture-perfect family...
I found my birth mother on February 19, 2014. One can only imagine the emotions, thoughts and questions that quickly go through someone’s brain once a realization like this comes to...
I’ve known my birth parents for less than a year – approximately eight months. Back in June 2014, with an encouraging push from family and friends, I began a self search...
Recently, Rachael Dolezal quickly came in and out of our news just as fast as Kylie Jenner’s lip challenge. She was outed by her family as being a white woman who...
There was recently a parody of Meghan Trainor’s Dear Future Husband. The viral video was sang by two hopeful Minnesota dads, as they anticipated the arrival of their adopted child....
This Mother’s Day, I will reflect on the day I became a birth mother. It’s not that I didn’t want to remember, but I have tried to block out that time...
“Do you know your real parents?” Not everyone gets the pleasure of being asked this question from the time they are a child well into their adult age. To be asked...
There’s absolutely no way of avoiding color in my family. I was adopted as an infant from the state of Georgia where my parents, who are caucasian, raised me in...