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10 Ways to Earn Money for Your Adoption

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Inside: 10 ways to earn money for your adoption You have made the decision to adopt, but the cost of private adoption can be overwhelming. From the home study to finalization, all of the costs can add up to be more than most people have available. So what do you do? Start earning and saving […]

How to Create a Successful T-Shirt Fundraiser

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Inside: 5 tips to a successful t-shirt fundraiser. Selling t-shirts with your original design is a great way to earn money for your adoption. When planning fundraisers, we wanted to create a product for people to buy, without investing much money ourselves. We couldn’t afford to lose money in the process. We used Bonfire to create […]

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How to Choose a Foster Care Agency

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How do you choose a foster care agency? Should you work with the county or a private agency? Learn more about the options available before you decide. You have made the decision to become a foster parent, but who should you get licensed through? Before adopting our daughter, my husband and I were foster parents. […]

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How to Become a Foster Parent

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Interested in becoming a licensed foster parent? Use these 8 steps to help guide you through the process. Becoming a foster parent is a huge decision. First of all, completing the paperwork, classes, and certifications is intense and takes a great deal of time. Secondly, your choice impacts your family and the future children you […]

How to Prepare a Bedroom for Foster Care

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How can you prepare a room for foster care? Use these tips to help you get ready to welcome a foster child into your home. Before we adopted our daughter, my husband and I were foster parents to two amazing kids. To become foster parents, we had to go through classes and have a home […]

Why I Failed as a Foster Parent

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After we were diagnosed with infertility, my husband and I decided to become foster parents with the plan to adopt.  I kept reading about people fostering to adopt and seeing people on social media discuss fostering to adopt, so thought it would be a great way for us to grow our family.  However, it did […]

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The Best Books for Young Children About Adoption

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Are you beginning to talk to your child about their adoption? These are the best books for children to help start the conversation. As you begin to start talking to your child about their adoption, there are so many books you can use to start the conversation.  We began reading some of these books to […]

When and How to Talk to Your Child About Their Adoption

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When is is the best time to tell your child they were adopted? How should you start? Some people in our family think I am crazy, but I talk to Baby B about her adoption and birth mom almost everyday. I want it to be a normal part of our conversation and something we talk […]

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I love the magic of the holiday season 💫 Thank I love the magic of the holiday season 💫 
Thank you @cassieleighphotography for the amazing pictures! 
#christmasiscoming #adoptionjourney #magicalmoments #adoptionislove 
#cassieleighbabies
I love starting new traditions with my little fami I love starting new traditions with my little family 🥰

Last year, while out of state waiting for B, my husband and I enjoyed Thanksgiving at Waffle House, the ONLY place open nearby. We couldn’t even find a grocery store that wasn’t closed. 
So we decided to do it again this year. All three of us.

#thanksgiving #familytraditions #adoptionjourney #adoptionislove
This past year has gone by in a flash. Exactly on This past year has gone by in a flash. 
Exactly one year ago today, I was shopping in Target when I got the (first) call that baby was on the way. 
I have never left a Target so quickly in my life AND left an entire cart full of stuff in the middle of the store. 
We packed quickly that night, rushed home, and loaded up the dogs to take to grandma’s house. 
And Archie had to ride in the car seat the entire way. 🤦🏼‍♀️ It’s crazy how clearly I remember that moment. And all of the wild emotions we would experience. 
And we would experience it all again exactly one week later. 
#adoptionjourney #adoptionislove #adoptivemom #adoptionstory
Happy #worldadoptionday Almost a year ago our liv Happy #worldadoptionday 
Almost a year ago our lives were completely changed by way of adoption and can’t imagine our life without this sweet little one now. So thankful 🥰
It has been the best summer making memories with t It has been the best summer making memories with this little one. ☀️
Excited to spend the summer with this cutie 🥰 Excited to spend the summer with this cutie 🥰

#schoolsoutforsummer #sweetsummertime #babygirl #adoptionjourney #domesticadoption
In love with the cake for our adoption celebration In love with the cake for our adoption celebration today!  Thank you! @thesweetlifenc 
It’s perfect 💕
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Our adoption is finalized! Such an exciting day w Our adoption is finalized!  Such an exciting day we had last week Skyping with the judge and now everything is official!  Getting ready to celebrate tomorrow with family and friends 💕
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Love this new teether! It feels so nice and is the Love this new teether! It feels so nice and is the perfect size for Baby B’s little hands.  Thank you @bellatunno 😊
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Sometimes I need a reminder to stop worrying so mu Sometimes I need a reminder to stop worrying so much about next week or next month.  Getting this or that done, and just enjoy the moments I have with my family and our new little one 💙
One of the best things we did while waiting for IC One of the best things we did while waiting for ICPC to clear us to go home was get newborn pictures taken!  I think most photographers suggest doing them around 10 days old, the ones we checked with said this anyway, so it was the perfect time.  She was almost a month old when we got home, so I am so glad we got these done before leaving Florida.
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We got lucky and found an amazing photographer who fit us into her schedule.  I definitely would suggest looking around in the state you may adopt from if this is something you would like to have done.  It also gave us something to do during that three week wait 😊
Can’t believe it’s already been three months s Can’t believe it’s already been three months since we crossed this bridge and we were on the way to meet our daughter!  Some days I still can’t believe it 💫
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