December is a time for gift giving. It’s a time for remembering what is important and thanking those in our life that we value. It is a unique time for Heart of Adoptions because we are coming straight out of National Adoption Month. And in November, we have already done so much to celebrate what […]

In the last three weeks, I have high-fived a stormtrooper, been startled by a six-foot-tall thunder bug and had my face painted. What carnival have I been frequenting you ask, oh, just your local county courthouses. On three separate Fridays, I have been in three county courthouses celebrating Adoption Day ceremonies

Heart of Adoptions Alliance is fortunate to have many loving families that are open to welcoming children into their home that have medical challenges. During National Adoption Month, we like to feature one or two of these families to be among the official recipients of St. Frances funds. Matthew and Andrew and Alec and Bart […]

As a birth mother, I have been involved in searching for my child. I don’t mean just recently, either. I started the search when she turned 18, over 25 years ago. Like much of our technology, even this process has changed significantly. At some point early on, I joined a support group that met once […]

It’s blog time again. (I just can’t resist that word, blog.) To connect the dots, I’m the staff birth mom and I’m still fairly new to the job. For a bit of background, I’m a part of the adoption triad. Not the usual, adoptive parent or adoptee, but I am a birth mom. I say […]

The first few days in the Netherlands were amazing, but there was much more to see and do. Monday came and another train ride- to Rotterdam as we had a bit of a change in plans- that may have brought the best day ever! We spent the day with a family that adopted about 2 […]

When you are offered an opportunity to travel half-way around the world, expenses paid, to get to meet families that you had a hand in helping to build as well as to meet families waiting to grow through adopting what do you do?? Oh- and where Dutch is the official language, but you only speak […]

The birthday of your child, how do you celebrate such a special day? The day your child was born? The day you probably got to hold him for the first time? And for a birth mom, it’s the day that you knew your child would not be going home with you. A birth mom may […]

My experience as an adoptive mother comes in to play a lot when dealing with our clients. I got into this whole field as a way of giving back or saying “thank you.” There are no words to express our gratitude to our daughters’ birth moms for the amazing gifts they gave us in allowing […]