A Story About Adoption: Meant To Love You

We LOVE this book. It provides a very simplistic and realistic explanation about what it means to be adopted. Young children will also enjoy this engaging story.
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Nathan's birth mother is not in contact with the family, something he sometimes asks about. Like many families formed through adoption, the Cichons encounter questions, which they are happy to answer. There are two things, however, that really bug Heather. The Cichons have been monthly donors to The Cradle Foundation since Adoption is an important part of their lives and it is something they celebrate.

I think our story is just so wonderful and they are so great and I want to spread it to the world. Meet adoptive parent and monthly donor, Heather Heather: My name is Heather Cichon. I have two boys I've adopted from The Cradle. My oldest, Adam, is eleven. Why did you choose adoption? Nobody grows up thinking that they're going to adopt. I think our love will be even stronger for having all that out where we can see it and own it.

And it will also be the summer when she fell asleep on the tag-a-long and fell off the bike, and ate Doritos at the pool, and learned to swim and jumped off the diving board for the first time. Because, you know, I write about this a lot, and I think about this a lot, but mostly, we just live our lives. And then it never, ever goes away. A different family could tell a different story—I loved you before I met you; I loved you before you were born, I have always loved you.


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For me, that would mean that I loved the idea of my children as much as my children themselves. So, thanks to everyone who commented. I could say a lot more about this. I could write a whole book about this. Stay, I guess, tuned—but know that Rory went to bed tonight with a bunch of kisses, an extra hug and a smile on her face.

I knew it would be hard. TAW is hard to do well, but you do it well.

A different kind of love

I stumbled on your blog when you were quarantined in China and have read since then. I want to say how proud I am of you for telling the truth of adoption and how you truly felt. I am a father to a beautiful girl from China and we too have had some ver tough times. I have also talked to other adoptive families that go through the same thing.

The adoption world wants to sugar coat adoptions and pretend that there is no hard part to it — but there is. You have no idea how many people have prayed for you. When Walt Manis was a kid , he had a vision of himself swinging a little girl around in his parents' backyard, and of God telling him it would be his daughter and that her name would be Chloe. Annie, his future wife, grew up in his neighborhood and always wanted to meet someone just like him. They reconnected when Annie went to university, and she told Walt she had a name picked out for her future daughter. They were both shocked when she told him the name — Chloe.

After marrying, the couple tried for four years to have a child, without success. They became impatient and frustrated.

Because we were thinking this isn't going to happen for us. We're fools who want kids, and it's never going to happen.

Love and fate brought them together

Finally, after intense deliberation, they decided to adopt. They were elated when they got the email from the adoption agency that a birth mother chose them. When they met the birth mother, she told them that she had been thinking of a particular name throughout her pregnancy… Chloe.

Rachel and Jim Van Eerden went on a trip to Ecuador with their two eldest kids and took a tour of an orphanage for children with special needs. While they were on the tour, Rachel saw a baby with Down Syndrome and fell in love at first sight. The baby, whom the family named Eddie, had been found by a carpenter who saw a trash bag moving next to the dumpster outside his workshop. Even though the Van Eerdens already had ten children, they knew they were meant to adopt Eddie.

The adoption took five years , but the Van Eerdens persevered. After three trips to Ecuador for court hearings, the couple finally brought him home.

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And our hands are full," Rachel said. Of course there are sacrifices, but what Eddie pours into each of us far outweighs any sacrifice.

He's taught us more of what our lives are about — reaching out and loving people. Callie Mitchell got pregnant in her early twenties and recorded the story of her pregnancy in her journal. At first, she was excited to be pregnant. She had a loving boyfriend, and both of their families were onboard. But two months into her pregnancy, she and her boyfriend broke up, and she realized she wouldn't be able to give her baby the life she wanted for him.

Heartwarming adoption stories that bring the tears

It was then, that she reached out to an adoption agency, Graceful Adoptions. Meanwhile, Kristen and Brian Doud , a couple in their early 30s, were looking to adopt a baby because they couldn't have biological children. The Douds were willing to have an open adoption to increase their chances of getting picked.

None of them realized how open their relationship would be. Kristen was the first person to hold baby Leo, when he was born. But Mitchell communicates with Leo every day and went to visit him for a weekend soon after he was born. Mitchell's son is getting the opportunities she wanted him to have in life, and she still gets to be a part of his childhood. Some of the most moving adoption stories happen when teenagers honor the people who raised them by asking to be adopted. Misty Nicole Knight asked a family member to record her, before giving Ryan Farrell a gift.

She told him to read the attached note out loud. Farrell sat down and began reading the note from Knight. You've raised me my whole life, from putting my hair into tight Princess Leia buns, to forging my signature like in fifth grade, and jamming out to alternative music. I'm so grateful to be able to call you Dad. You are probably wondering what this letter is for.