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Dec 21, 2018

A Holiday Of Miracles

December is a month of holiday cheer. It can be a stressful month with all the extra demands we put upon ourselves to create the perfect holiday memories. In doing my own holiday errands and planning this weekend I had some time to reflect on what is fueling me this year. One of the top […]

Dec 11, 2018

A Time Of Celebrating And Giving

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 […]

Nov 26, 2018

A Great Friday For Forever Families

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

Nov 08, 2018

Two Very Brave Girls

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 […]

Oct 30, 2018

Searching For Her Daughter In Modern Ways

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 […]

Oct 23, 2018

The Adoption Triad From All Sides

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 […]

Oct 09, 2018

Jeanne Tate: Lightning Community Hero

The Tampa Bay Lightning honored Jeanne Tate as the first Lightning Community Hero this season during the first period of tonight's game versus the Florida Panthers. Jeanne, who received a $50,000 donation from the Lightning Foundation and the Lightning Community Heroes program, will donate the money to Gift of Adoption. Jeanne has worked for the […]

Aug 24, 2018

Ik Spekt Engels

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 […]

Aug 23, 2018

Love Was The Common Thread

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 […]