Posts by mnmoore3

Hi All!  I followed the old thread and just found this one (I wondered why there had been NO activity on the old one for months lol)... I am Misty, mom to three - two via foster care adoption and one via SURPRISE pregnancy after...

Quote: Originally Posted by queenjane    To clarify, my children do not (at this time) have any contact with their birthfamily. I guess i consider our adoptions open because there isnt really any secrecy....

Quote: Originally Posted by queenjane  i've been on lots of yahoo adoption groups  (AHTPC it think is one??  AOK? i dunno...) Did you post here years ago? I *know* "jelluasy (or however it was spelled)...

Queenjane... No, they were never on a photo listing.  We knew the day we met them we wanted them so there was really no need.  Have you been on any Yahoo adoption groups??

My daughters were adopted at 6 & 8 years old and they both started calling us mom & dad right away.  My friend adopted two girls from foster care at 11 & 13 and two years later they still call her by her first name but...

My husband and I are both white, our 2 daughters that we adopted are both Mexican.  They were 6 & 8 years old when we adopted them.  Luckily for them it wasn't an issue, but with other kids it was.  Does she go to a...

MountainMama and everyone else trying to patiently wait... It is so worth the wait in the end.  My advice is to stay on top of your case workers, ask questions and if you don't like the answer you get, go over their heads. ...

They always called their bio parents by their first names, we are mom & dad.  Now, my 15 year old (adopted at 8 yrs) likes to refer to them as her sperm donor and egg donor...lol  :)  But, from my experience with my...

Our adopted daughters were in foster care with my parents for 3 yrs (the oldest - 8 when adopted) and 2 years (the youngest - 6 when adopted).  We had no other children so that helped.  We see their 2 younger sibs as often as...

Hi Purplegal,   My husband & I adopted two girls (bio sisters), in 2005, at the ages of 6 & 8 years old.  Bio parents were both incarcerated, so open adoption was not even an option.  They do have an...