Category: adoption

  • Meeting the Kids {Foster Adoption}

    Meeting the Kids {Foster Adoption}

    Over the weekend, we met the 5 year old girl and soon-to-be-four year old boy who may soon join our family. I instagrammed a photo as we were walking out the door, saying, “Do we look as nervous and unprepared as we feel? Heading to meet our possible next two kids. Pray for us?” Last…

  • Foster Adoption Update

    Foster Adoption Update

    I’d hoped to have more to update by now, but things don’t always go as planned, so I’ll update as much as I can. Last Monday’s meeting was fantastic. {If you have no idea what I’m talking about, read this post first.} The children’s caseworker is very sweet. She is thorough and appears to be…

  • Oh boy. (And girl?)

    Oh boy. (And girl?)

    So… remember that little teaser from a few weeks back, when I alluded to being busier soon? Yeah. Time for a little more about that. A bit of background: We were approved back in late 2011 for another foster-adoption, which meant we were due to update our paperwork in late 2012. Because of some difficult…

  • A Story of Open Adoption {Guest Post}

    A Story of Open Adoption {Guest Post}

    Thank you SO much to Monika for sharing her personal experience as the birth mother in an open adoption! Monika’s story is part of an ever-growing collection of guest post adoption stories here on See Jamie Blog! If you have a personal adoption story of your own to share, please email me. The year was…

  • Adoption Story by Nicole {Guest Post}

    Thank you to Nicole for today’s guest post about how her family of two biological kids grew to include four more children through adoption! My husband, Daniel, and I were married 14 years and had two children whom I homeschooled when we answered God’s call on our lives to be foster parents in 2005. We…