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I found this poem/song on a friend’s blog the other day. I’m not sure who wrote it (I’ll have to ask her) but I find it absolutely beautiful. With today being Mothers’ Day, I feel it would be a great time to share it. This poem does a wonderful way of summing up how I feel most days [...]

I was raised on a farm and had many opportunities to watch the animals give birth. Even at a young age I wouldn’t become disgusted at the sight. I always thought of it as a beautiful miracle that one animal could multiply and make a miniature version of them. If I become goo over the [...]

Is there such a thing as “selfish adoption”? I am a believer that there are no deeds that are selfless. I don’t mean that there aren’t people who do things who do things out of the goodness of their hearts because I do believe that nice people exist. I just know that even if you’re [...]

My husband and I don’t hide the fact that we would like to have a closed adoption. I just think that if we make a clean break from the beginning that things would be better for our family. Last night I started thinking about how having a completely closed, know nothing about the birth parents, [...]

I was looking at my children play the other morning and I started thinking about adding our third child to our family. My children look a lot alike, I’m told this almost daily, and both of them are obviously ours. Our third child will come to our home via adoption so the chance of him/her [...]

I’m going to start off by saying I’m not the typical LDS woman. Yes I did go to a LDS college and marry my FHE brother, but I can’t say my great grandpa crossed the plains in a wagon either. I became a member of the LDS church when I was almost 17 so a [...]