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Opening our families to children that are 12 and older. We adopted in 2008, Yana, a 15 year old and in 2009, Yana's brother, Koyla, a 13 year old. It has changed my life totally, all for the better.
Thanks Kryston for the encouragement :0) I admit we have had our hesitations with adopting an older child .. But at the same time, I worked in a group home with teen girls and I loved it . I loved being able to connect with them, take them out shopp…
my beautiful 11 year old princess has been home since 2/12/10. Hopefully, the adoption(foster care) will be finalized sometime in Sept/Oct of this year. It has been quite a journey with her. She has had quite a bit of trauma in her life, so i wasn't…
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Welcome Misty! Congratulations on your adoption journey! You will never be the same, lots of work but well worth it! I think the best thing about adopting a teenager is that we have another teenager so can tell what is adoption stress vs. typical te…
Hey Everyone :0) I decided to join this group because we are trying to adopt from fostercare right now... We were matched once and the adoption didnt go through . So now they are trying to get us matched again.. Right now our homestudy is in for a s…
Opening our families to children that are 12 and older. We adopted in 2008, Yana, a 15 year old and in 2009, Yana's brother, Koyla, a 13 year old. It has changed my life totally, all for the better.
Opening our families to children that are 12 and older. We adopted in 2008, Yana, a 15 year old and in 2009, Yana's brother, Koyla, a 13 year old. It has changed my life totally, all for the better.
Has anyone had to tell their teen about bio parents they never met after a biosearch?
Please let me in on your tips!
Opening our families to children that are 12 and older. We adopted in 2008, Yana, a 15 year old and in 2009, Yana's brother, Koyla, a 13 year old. It has changed my life totally, all for the better.
Opening our families to children that are 12 and older. We adopted in 2008, Yana, a 15 year old and in 2009, Yana's brother, Koyla, a 13 year old. It has changed my life totally, all for the better.
Opening our families to children that are 12 and older. We adopted in 2008, Yana, a 15 year old and in 2009, Yana's brother, Koyla, a 13 year old. It has changed my life totally, all for the better.
I know the boy was only eight, but I thought I'd ask this group if they had any American sources for the child returned on a plane to Russia by his adoptive mom? I can only find the Russian version...
http://en.rian.ru/world/20100408/158488040.html
Opening our families to children that are 12 and older. We adopted in 2008, Yana, a 15 year old and in 2009, Yana's brother, Koyla, a 13 year old. It has changed my life totally, all for the better.
Opening our families to children that are 12 and older. We adopted in 2008, Yana, a 15 year old and in 2009, Yana's brother, Koyla, a 13 year old. It has changed my life totally, all for the better.
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- adoptive parent (international adoption)
- If you have adopted, or ar hoping to do so, which agency have you used?
- independant
- If you adopted internationally, or are hoping to do so, please share the country.
- Ukraine
- If you have a website or blog you would like to share, enter the website address.
- http://www.rahnjourney.blogspot.com
- Share a little about your adoption story
- Adopted our daughter Yana in 2008, five weeks later her brother went into the same orphanage that I had gotten Yana from. We returned to adopt him in 2009. I leave a piece of my heart with the children left behind each time.
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Return to the Past
In May, 2009, my husband, daughter (adopted 16 months earlier from Ukraine) and myself left on an incredible journey to adopt my daughter's brother, Koyla. We discovered that Koyla went into the Berdyansk Orphanage about 5 weeks after our daughter, Yana, left the orphanage. When she left she thought she had to cut relationships in her past. She thought that to have a new family she would have to forget the old. We did not know that such wonderful people existed in Yana's past. We did recognize t… Continue
Posted on July 11, 2009 at 7:52am — 3 Comments
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- At 4:13am on July 14, 2009,
Stefanie said… - Hi Fran. Thank you for you kind words. I can't believe we have 4 small children either! For our second adoption, I felt that it in order to make ourselves as "marketable" as possible we "upped" our number to three. Needless to say within the first five minutes of our SDA appointment, I knew we were coming home with 3 more! The woman who shows files, was determined to give us three! We are thrilled with the Children we have. I recall following your storie(s) of adoption and the ups and downs of your journey(ies). I am so happy for you in your most recent adoption of your son! Good to see you here!
- At 9:15pm on July 11, 2009,
Laura J Passanita said… - This is a pretty cool site. THanks for sharing it with me and thanks for coming to the trivia night. Sorry I didn't get a chance to talk with you much. Guess you had to leave early.
Hopefully we can add some good stuff for anyone interested in adopting form Ukraine or at least osme funny stories for those we know woudl appreciate the adoption humor!
- At 8:37pm on July 4, 2009,
MamaPoRuski said…
- Home with a new son and on a new social network! I don't know how you do it! Congrats!
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