Leigh's Adoption Journey
It’s interesting how when we reflect on our life, we can see how things that really didn’t make sense at the time they happened totally make sense to our story now. For instance, I always loved dolls, and I mean the baby dolls kind, not the kind you put on a shelf and never touch. I was a little Mama from the time I can remember. Maybe I get that from my dad as even he had a doll as a little boy. But both of my parents taught me how to love, and they prepared me to be a mom.
The first time I can remember hearing about adoption was in church. Our faith community supported a home for children, and each year as ...
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The Simon Family
The Beginning
Our Journey, may have been a lot like yours, a strong desire and yearn to have a little one to call yours…
Something that is supposed to happen naturally, often easily for others, suddenly becomes years of disappointment, sorrow, feelings of inadequacy and failure. Not knowing what to do next, where to go or wanting to endure more pain, emotionally and financially.
Learning of AIS and hearing of their successes of matching families at birth, in the US, was something unthinkable, unobtainable. But we were wrong!
We met AIS in July of 2012, and suddenly we had hope! We knew we wanted a child at birth and AIS could make ...
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