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Submit your family's recorded adoption story for the chance to win a $200 prize, and to share your journey in Adoptive Families magazine and online. Share footage of your story today! (See full contest rules.)
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Announcing Our "Summer Fun" Photo Contest Winner!
As summer ends, and fall begins, we celebrate Kiya's first-place photo and reveal these runners up!
Aren't Our Daddy and Me Photo Contest Winners Cute?
We have a winning duo: Dad Kurt and son, Ryan! Check to see if your entry is one of the runners up!
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Straight to Bunk Beds
Older kids and adoption... one family trying to figure it out
Recent Blog Posts
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My Adoption Journal: Reflections on Life as We Added an Older Child to Our Family
Some of the journal was hard for me to read -- the confessions of a new mom. It reminded me how tired we were. How happy we were. How many unknowns we were wading through...
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Celebrating Family Anniversaries
Deciding when to celebrate the anniversary of the date our son joined our family should be the easy part... but somehow it got complicated.
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A First Christmas at Home
A first Christmas at home is memorable for so many reasons... for our family, it was all about memories in the making.
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Learning As We Go
Everyday lessons can turn into opportunities to talk about the past. And the future.
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Story Telling
With each passing day, our son shares more about his life before us. This story telling is wonderful, frightening, and confusing all at the same time -- much like adoption itself.
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First Things First
Adopting an older child, we have missed many 'firsts' in his young life. But somehow that makes today's milestones even sweeter.
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The Song In His Heart
We leaned over our Polish/English dictionaries trying to decipher the song our son was singing at high volume in the shower. We never figured it out.
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Lost Languages
Our research told us that they would learn English quicker than we would ever expect. But these two? Talking to each other in English? No way!
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Bonds Aren’t Built in a Day
Bonding with an older adopted child isn't about hugs, kisses and snuggles. It's about finding little ways to connect and create new memories each day.
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My Two Boys
The not-so-little boy who lives in our house now has changed so much in these past six months. And so has our bio son. He holds his head up higher, takes initiative more quickly and has a stronger sense of self. He is an older brother.
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