Posts by lamamax3

As the mom of a child who faced neglect while with her birth family, I understand your anger and frustration.  And I am so sorry you are in such a bad place, but I am honestly confused.  You are trying to adopt...

Well, this might have been the closest we will ever get.  Mom had Baby this weekend and thinks she's going to parent.  All of her reasons for pursuing adoption (better life for her four other kids, better life for this child,...

Honestly, it came down to a few simple reasons.  We were 100% against working with a for-profit agency.  We have a tight budget.  We wanted to work in state.  That left us with two choices.  We went with the...

After two and a half years of waiting, we have now been chosen by an expectant mother to adopt her baby.  I refuse to use the term "matched" because our agency avoids the language, and it seems to me that it implies more...

I'm so sorry for you and your daughter and the little girl whose grandparents couldn't decide immediately to adopt her or let her go.

We were contacted last week about a baby another agency was having trouble placing. Our SW sent over our profile for birthmom to look at. It was between us and one other family...they won. She had never mentioned to anyone that it was...

Rebecca, I know what you mean. We are locked in with our agency (if we don't choose to go the foster route, which we go back and forth on A LOT). Our estimated wait was 9 months. We have been waiting for 21 months. We were told that...

Please change the foster to adopt stuff in my description. Nothing is working in that area-classes are held on the only night I work. Summer classes are 9-5 on Saturdays...we have more to consider than adoption. DH works full time all...

I have always wanted to be a mother. There was never any question for me of having kids or not, it was always just a question of when. I went into education because I love children so much. I have three bio kids and we're trying to...

Not to be a downer, but you guys sounds JUST like us. We have three kids and homeschool and are not AA. The homeschooling doesn't seem to have slowed us down; in fact, our sw thinks it can be a plus. Our neighborhood is diverse. Two...