Adoption Comes Naturally!

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Family comes first for Jim and Shannon. They spend lots of time with their brothers and sisters, and their children, several of whom are adopted. That’s why Shannon always knew she would adopt. Family activities involve traveling, kayaking and horseback riding, and Jim’s mother is just waiting to make a quilt for their new baby. Now all they need is the new baby!

A big thank you to Jim & Shannon for allowing us to tell their story!

Do you have a story you’d like to tell? Email us at blog.ach@foryourlife.com. Visit us at www.AChildsHope.com, or call our Birth Mother Hotline at 1-877-890-HOPE (4976) so one of our adoption counselors can answer your questions confidentially.

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It All Started As Friends!

This couple started out as friends soon after college, their relationship grew, and they were married in 1999. Kristen and Dave love sports, travel, volunteer work, and they are dedicated to their friends and family. Their five year old son Aidan will make an exceptional big brother.

Among the things they plan to teach their children: that laughter and comfortable shoes are the secrets to happiness! Dave, Kristen and Aidan live in a newly remodeled house with lots of room for kids to play, inside and out, and they hope to adopt a baby soon!

A big thank you to Dave, Kristen and Aidan for allowing us to tell the story of their family!

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Celebrating 275 Adoptive Placements!!

Every placement day in our office is a tug at your heart strings sort of day, but when we reach significant numbers here at the agency we are very proud and very happy!

Last week baby Caroline was brought in to meet her adoptive parents for the first time. She was the 275^th baby that our agency A Child’s Hope has placed for adoption. Each one has been and will always be very special.

We are very proud to have played a part in uniting so many birthparents and waiting adoptive parents over the years. Adoption is truly a loving way to build a family!

Thank you to all 275 families that have allowed us to be a part of this very special time in their lives!

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Afraid your baby will not know that he or she looks like you??

Adopted children want to know how they look like their birth parents, and adoptive families like to
be able to tell them. There is no denying biology, and in adoption, any information that the adoptive
parents can pass on give the adopted child a sense of identity.

The child you place for adoption will always have your heart, and will also have some of your physical
features. Whether your child inherits your eyes or the birth father’s height and long legs, this
information is told the adoptive child with love and appreciation.

Do you have a story you’d like to tell? Email us at blog.ach@foryourlife.com. Visit us
at www.AChildsHope.com, or call our Birth Mother Hotline at 1-877-890-HOPE (4976) so one of our
adoption counselors can answer your questions confidentially.

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anyone.

Waiting to Adopt – Kirk & Andrea

Kirk and Andrea met through a mutual friend at a tailgating party before a local college football game and have been married since 2001. Kirk is the love of Andrea’s life, and Andrea is Kirk’s best friend. They are very active in their church and in their daughter Bailee’s life.

Bailee enjoys in gymnastics, cheerleading, playing in her backyard, and swimming at the neighborhood pool. And she’s anxious to share all she’s learned with a new brother or sister!

Thanks to Kirk, Andrea and Bailee for sharing the story of their family with us!

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Waiting to Adopt – Ike & Pam

Ike and Pam met and actually dated in high school but then went their separate ways for college. Years later, though, they ended up at the same college – Pam for graduate work, Ike finishing his degree – in the same apartment complex, in the same apartment building, across the hall from each other. It was fate!

This time around the timing was right. They married and that was 14 years ago, and they’re still happy together! Ike and Pam love spending time in the mountains and at the beaches in North Carolina. They’re both athletic and enjoy playing and watching sports. They love spending time with their friends and family and are proud godparents of their best friends’ daughter. Both their families live within a short drive, so holidays are eventful! Between them, Ike and Pam have nine nieces and nephews, two of whom are adopted.

They plan to tell their child as much about his or her birth mother and her family as she is open to, and about the love it took for her to make the adoption decision.

Thanks to Ike and Pam for allowing us to tell the story!

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Indiana Jones meets Ally McBeal – and Adoption Ensues!

It’s a war time love story!

Sal and Kathy met in the Persian Gulf on board a ship. Kathy was a Navy nurse, and Sal was a Merchant Marine. It’s an old story – they fell in love during the war and have been together ever since!

Sal is currently a professor at a private university and studied archeology and history, and Kathy is a lawyer with her own small practice. They love swimming, spending time with family, and being outside. But mostly they love parenting their adopted son, Christopher, now four years old.

Christopher is not so patiently waiting for a brother or sister. “I promise I will even share my toys with my new little brother or sister,” says Christopher. Sal, Kathy and Christopher are anxiously waiting for the phone call to let them know that they have been chosen by a birthmother and a brother or sister for Christopher is on the way!

Thanks to Sal, Kathy and Christopher for allowing us to tell their story!

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A Bend In The Road

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Jeff and Lisa have been married for about 14 years. The first few years of their marriage, they just enjoyed being with each other. They wanted to wait to have kids. However, after numerous doctor visits and medical procedures, they accepted that they wouldn’t be able to conceive. Jeff and Lisa started exploring adoption through friends who had been through similar issues. Lisa says, “Our friends were so blessed with a beautiful baby through adoption. We pray daily that God will answer our prayers.”

Lisa and Jeff spend lots of time outdoors and with their extended families, and they’re very active with the youth group at church. In addition to Easter egg hunts, Christmas plays and other events, Jeff and Lisa go to church camp at the beach with about 50 kids every year. They look forward to the day when their own adopted child can go on the trip too!

Thanks to Jeff and Lisa for allowing us to tell their story!

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The First Time…!

“One gets only a day or two in an entire lifetime as incredible as the day we saw your face!”

The first time you see your child’s face is a memory that stays with you forever. As an adoptive mother, I’ve had the joy of seeing my two little boys both just hours after their birth. I think of those first few moments so often and smile each time.

No matter how many precious memories you gather in the year that follow, those first few moments of seeing your baby and knowing that “he is yours to raise” are, to me, frozen in time as if God reached his hand down and said “Stop, remember this moment!”

My oldest son travelled with us when we first saw his brother in the neonatal unit of a Tennessee hospital. This photograph is the moment when they first saw each other. One boy, age four, meeting the newborn boy destined to be his brother.

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Adoption Can Be Simply 1+1!

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Sharon was 39 years old and wanted a child, but she just hadn’t met Mr. Right.

“Well, I wasn’t sure I was meant to find Mr. Right, but I knew I was meant to be a mom,
Sharon said. “People kept telling me I should adopt, but I was concerned I couldn’t do it on my own.”

Sharon wanted to be a mom, so she followed her heart and signed with our adoption agency. She adopted Katelyn, an African American girl who was born in 2005.

Sharon has faced challenges as a single woman adopting a child, and because Sharon is Caucasian, adopting an African American infant brought on complications. But thanks to A Child’s Hope, these challenges have been met with love and humor. The result? A little girl with a very devoted mother.

“Katelyn is a part of me that will always be there,” said Sharon. “She is my daughter, and I am the only mother she has ever known. And she always comes first. Adopting Katelyn is the absolute best thing I have ever done, and I would absolutely do it again.”

The pieces of Sharon’s puzzle have come together – the love she felt for Katelyn rushed into every facet of her life, and she married Mr. Right last year. Yes, Sharon does receive comments from strangers about Katelyn, but she has learned to handle it with humor.

“My favorite comment is when I’m asked if her father was African American,” Sharon said. “I always respond, ‘Yes apparently he was.'”

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Family

Adoption Comes Naturally!

It All Started As Friends!

Celebrating 275 Adoptive Placements!!

Afraid your baby will not know that he or she looks like you??

Waiting to Adopt – Kirk & Andrea

Waiting to Adopt – Ike & Pam

Indiana Jones meets Ally McBeal – and Adoption Ensues!

A Bend In The Road

The First Time…!

Adoption Can Be Simply 1+1!

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