Let me be honest, this shit is hard! I preface my proud mom moment because some days I am just proud to have kept two small people alive. And I am proud that I bit my tongue several times that day and kept my patience in moments that my brain was exploding with emotion.And then there are those magic …

We started the adoption process to adopt a child with Down syndrome in 2009. We chose to adopt from Eastern Europe because the need was so great there for children with disabilities in orphanages. We were matched with a child in Russia and started the process. Along the way, we lost our referral due …