Stories

The adoption coordinator walked through the Kirov orphanage drawing room doors with a 7 pound, 4 ounce swaddled baby girl who was just over 4 months old.  Alexandra, as she had been named by her biological mother, would become the daughter that “grew in my...

I will forever remember the day that I received the call to pick up my son! It was a snow day for my students and I was alone in my classroom.  Our social worker shared that his birth mother smoked and drank alcohol during pregnancy...

Both of our children were adopted from Poland. Our daughter is 16 years old and was adopted at 15 months of age. Our son is 13 years old and was adopted at 22 months of age.  Our daughter is neurotypical and is in the 10th...