My husband, Yonatan, and I have always talked about adopting an older child.  I spent a number of years working in foster care research and had first hand experience about the difficulty older kids encounter in finding adoptive families and how a stable family can radically change the trajectory of a child’s life.  But we [...]

I was a freshman in college in the winter of 1967, enjoying my new found freedom, living in a dorm far away from home with a very ample curfew.  To say that I was “a child of the 60’s” with all the implications that brings is the most I will say about that time.

In February, [...]

The day my daughter told me that she was unable to have children is etched in my memory.  It was the day my dream of having a biological grandchild died.  I was already a grandmother to four beautiful grandchildren that had been presented to me by my stepsons and their wives.  Someone had once mentioned [...]

Be sure to read the first part of her story, here:  Part 1 – An Unexpectedly Rough Beginning

Life went on, and I was even more depressed than before.  We started going to church.  The sermon our first day at church was about grace.  How you don’t deserve grace, you can’t earn it or get it [...]

*Names and locations have been changed or withheld for privacy. As a general rule, we refer to expecting mothers and birth mothers by their first initial only, though these have also been changed.

Marilyn’s Story, Part 1 – An Unexpectedly Rough Beginning:

Our story starts the same as many couples that are considering adoption.  We started trying [...]