Adoption.com's magazine, Adoption week emagazine came out today. Every week I scan to read articles, blogs and even adoption related humor.

This week, an article written by a fost-adopt mom caught my eye. She relates how her now adopted and grown children, went back and forth to bio dad and her, foster mom, before she was able to adopt the children. She also writes about the special needs her children have because of the very bad start to their lives.

Mom, Cheryl Jones writes about adopting her children:

My husband and I were foster parents of our adopted son and daughter for eight years before we finally got to adopt them. After being ours already in our hearts, they became legally ours in July of 2000. During eight years of being their foster parents, I kept in contact with both their birth mom and dad. Sometimes it was hard to do as they would change addresses and phone numbers frequently. At times their closest relatives would not know where they were. I would search until I found them and say, "please call your children" and usually they would.

The complete article is worth a read.


Motivated or inspired to adopt? The magazine also has a featured waiting child each week.

This week, read about Sharon:

What words can we use to describe this Caucasian teenaged girl? How about wonderful, vibrant, friendly, helpful and athletic for starters? Sharon loves music of all types and is not afraid to belt out a song during a car ride. She has natural athletic abilities and has excelled in every team sport she has tried so far, with soccer being her favorite. She is in excellent shape and likes to stay fit....read more here....

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