This is a VERY thought Provoking interview

My Blogging and email friend Michelle has a great interview on her blog this week with a former fosterchild.She has some very interesting things to say......

The Famous touched by Adoption

As Jacks 10th "Gotta Day" approaches I found this great tribute to Famous people of who Adoption has personal touched.

Thought it was time to Share

I haven't really shared alot here about our troubles with infertility, and since we are in the middle of fertility treatments I thought I would come clean and fill you all in.
Our personal friends and family would know that we are blessed with 4 amazing children, 1 via birth (14 years ago) 2 via straight out adoption while infants and 1 via long term legal Guardianship, but having a quiverful heart and having infertility is just one heartbreaking mix. Both Dh and I would dearly love more children, Don’t get us wrong we love all our children with all our hearts, but we really believe that I was placed on this earth to be a mother to many children, sure we are fostercarers and we love that job, but the heartache of losing children after you have love and cherished them is just too hard to bear sometimes.
The desire to Birth and nurture many children is so strong in me, I feel so strongly that it’s my only Job on this earth, it’s a spiritual thing, it’s a heart thing and it’s a head thing.........I believe as do a growing number of women I am begun to find all over the world that Mothering and child bearing is the most important Job in the world, and parenting a large family is just as important as if was raising one or two children.........this is not just a stage in my life, or a hobby or something that I can get sick of, it’s a lifelong Job a Job and duty that I cherisher . For me , To mother a child is the biggest honour a women can be given, in Gods eyes its seen as a job that should be cherished and honoured, so why do we as a society look down on women who only want to “mother” I over the last 14 years have met many women from all walks of life, who have small and large families but the common thread with all of them is they want to be respected and appreciated as Mothers, not by their children and husbands (although that is nice) but by society, they want Mothering seen as a Job that is as respected as a Doctor or Lawyer.......... Is that too hard to ask??
So anyway getting back to us, DH and I would love more children but of course we have this issue, or rather I have this issue called PCOS (poly cystic Ovarian Syndrome) which among other things causes fertility issues, weight gain, excess hair issues etc, basically my hormones are just nutso upside down and my ovaries produce alot of cysts due to this. To ovulate alot of women with PCOS need support from fertility medication, there are women (I know several) that have had pregnancies with no real issue but I am not one of them sadly. So this brings me to now.......I'm slap bang right in the middle of a Clomid supported cycle to try and get PG.
Early last year we after alot of heartache and a huge break (6 years)while adopting the boys, got pregnant on our first Clomid cycle with our new OBGYN/Fertility specialist, but tragically our joy turned to sorrow when at 8 weeks I lost the baby to miscarriage. So here I am in the middle of a cycle praying and hoping for the best possible outcome 2 red lines on a pregnancy test!.
Tomorrow is egg scan day, I have to have a scan to check egg size, after Thursdays scan things where looking a bit slow, the eggs growing where too small and the OB suggested 4 days of what Dh and I call "egg super juice" aka Puregon(rch)and then rescan me tomorrow (Monday).So tomorrow is a big day to see if the "super juice" has worked, I'm hoping for 2 eggs, 2 is better than one if you ask me, but my OB will be hoping for only 1 as she is very cautious about multiples ;o))
So I will keep you all posted, Pray for us will you...........we are asking God for a huge thing we know, but we know that he is a wonderful God and we pray that our hearts desire is his Will in our lives.
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Adoption!

Today I was sent a link to a young teen who is available for adoption in the US. I get these kinda emails often as I am on a special needs adoption list, mostly they do not really affect me, I mean I can rationalise that the kids are in the US and we can't legally adopt them into Australia so it’s a non issue. But this young teen really got to me. She has a liver condition that requires a transplant and the Dr will not do it unless she has a forever family willing to make a lifelong commitment to her, can you imagine that? can you imagine being so alone in the world that Dr will not do life saving surgery on you because you will not have the support and family to help you with follow up care?.....it just breaks my heart.

So my question is to you have you very considered adoption? The US has some terrible amount of children available for adoption though the fostercare system, some of these kids have special medical needs some have disabilities and some have behavioural issues and/or have been affected by the abuse to which they were subjected. Some are just kids who with the love of a family will thrive, some need more than love. But every single one of them needs a family just like yours........I can see you thinking I am full, I have enough to deal with, I can't do that disability or that medical condition. I understand that feeling it can be a overwhelming to take on a child that has issues that you have never dealt with, but there’s how I feel about that, If God had blessed me with a birth child with say liver disease or Heart condition I would not have known at first what to do, how to manage or how to advocate for my child.........I would of learnt as I went along. Well it’s just like that, I didn't know how to place a feeding tube when we first took Katie home...........I learnt, I didn't know all the traits for Down syndrome when we took Jack home but I learnt, I didn't know what maternal drug addiction would mean for my Noah but I do now!..........You learn to look after these kids are you go along, I didn’t have the skills to look after Katie where we first took her I learnt on the Job so to speak. I am not amazing person, no saint, no angel, I am a average mumma, who cooks, cleans, hugs her babies and fights the stop drop and go at school every day, I am nothing out of the ordinary, I have not amazing skills that makes me better than you at parenting, I guess what is different is I had the desire to look into it and once I did I was hooked...........as a mother I just couldn't sit back when I knew kids where needing families. Kids needed love, stability and someone to care about how they got on in life.
I will grant you that we have had some ups and downs, but strangely no more than the average family, I sit and listen to the Mums and school and we all have the same issues, whinging kids, full schedules and difficult toddlers........ours lives are really no different in many ways.
Many people ask how I do it, to which I reply "do what?" parent?, be Jack and Noah's mother? well I do it the same way you do, I get up every morning see my child for the Miracle of God he/she is and get on with my day, I have the same challenges, the same stress's the same hang ups, I worry about my boys future, but so the heck do you from what I am hearing...........so see we are not different really.
So why not give it a look? why not look at one of the thousands of "waiting child lists" both here in Australia(excludes Queensland who do not advertise waiting for adoption children ughhhh) but mostly in the USA and talk it over with your hubby and or kids, Do a information course and see where God leads you........It’s that simple, you do not have to have loads of money, Homeschooling is not obstacle, Large families are accepted for alot of children/sibling groups, and you do not have to own your own home or provide a separate room for the adopted children.
I can't express to you the blessings, love and miracles that my adopted children have brought to my life........words really can't express how inspired, challenged and happy I am as a mother because of all my kids.....So will you take a look, look outside your home, see where it leads you???


Here are 3 of my Miracles,
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