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RHSegura

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  1. What wonderful motivation to adopt... <insert sarcasm!>
  2. Welcome to the world, baby Grayson!!! Congratulations on his arrival to Ryan, Becky and his first family! Prayers that you all know a lifetime of happiness and a wonderful connection between families.
  3. Tears!!! So happy you have all found each other and that all the ups and downs have led to this truly miraculous day!! Blessings on you all - the new parents, the first family and a sweet baby girl!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  4. If someone is going to be up all night with a baby, camp is a great place to do it! I enjoyed my late nights there with Andrew last year!! :) Take lots of pics of this tiny pink bundle for me to show Rudy!
  5. Well, gee, if you think it would help...!?! Love it!! Pink is a great color! (I'd sort of love to see some around my house!)
  6. I am so excited for your family, Monica! My heart rate sped up when I read this thread, but my poor husband might not make it if I mention that fact!!!!! I find ourselves in total contentment with our lives now, but just wonder sometimes what the future might hold!
  7. That’s wonderful… I am sure she will have the joy in her eyes, which I translate to joy of a mother’s heart shinning through her eyes, I would think it be impossible not to see in any first-mom. I’ll be thinking of you guys next week sending positive prayers and thoughts your way. Excited to hear how it goes for all. Love to all Thank you! I truly hope it will be a special time for her. We had a trip planned to Texas for Andrew's first birthday (on the 21st) and are looking forward to that. His older sisters are especially excited. Monica was given a buddy pass for a plane ticket so she is planning to come up this Monday - Friday. It will be a busy but good two weeks! We appreciate your prayers and thoughts! This year has been so tough on her so I am hopeful she will enjoy the time getting to know him better and feel more connected. Also, she'll be able to see him in his home environment and then celebrate that first special birthday in their home when we travel down the following week. We've stayed in close touch through the year but nothing can beat a real face to face visit!
  8. I love seeing the photos of your big, beautiful family. I think you offer a perspective that is so valuable! Our second son's birthmom is traveling to our home on Monday to stay for a few days and I hope I will see the same joy in her eyes that I see in your daughter's eyes with Sloane.
  9. There is definitely a great group in Memphis! Our 2 year old son has a 4 year old biological sister and she and her adoptive family live in Germantown. I am pretty sure that is near Collierville if I remember correctly! We are hoping to get down to visit a few times this summer!
  10. Congratulations! One of the first of several exciting calls to come from Abrazo! I remember being thrilled to get that official invitation to attend orientation and we had a great time there! August is just around the corner, and from that point you have to be ready because you never know when more calls will come!
  11. I saw this story on the news and then just looked it up. Not a celebrity adoption, but gymnast Dominique Moceanu finding out she had a biological sister. The article will break your heart... "Their parents, Bricker wrote, gave her up for adoption when they found out that she had no legs." Also, "Moceanu, now 30, recounted to ABC her reaction to the letter, "It was the biggest bombshell of my life. Rage was my first emotion, had my life been a lie? I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it." It did amaze me how many similarities they had even though they didn't know about each other!!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/11/dominique-mocea-secret-sister-jennifer-bricker_n_1586987.html#s=1082150
  12. Welcome! Each step in the adoption process is exciting and nerve wracking all at once! You'll find a lot of support here!
  13. That is SO cute! I am sure that meant to world to Stacey and David!!!
  14. Must be the night for Skype We talked to Luke's sister Sofia and her mom. It is funny because Luke and Sofia mostly show each other toys and little things like that! The connection wasn't good tonight and the conversation got interrupted a few times. Luke got SO upset each time asking for her! Andrew even babbled to them and it was cute! It is a great way to keep in touch.
  15. Wow!! What a week! Congratulations to the newest expanded family!!! Hope that your relationship will continue to grow as it has these past months!
  16. Wow, what a day in San Antonio. I can not imagine how difficult this decision was for this young mom. I am thankful that she gave parenting a try if that is what she felt best at the time, and she will always know she gave it her all. May she have some sweet memories to carry in her heart. Blessings and peace to her and her whole family, and to the new proud parents of this sweet baby boy.
  17. Congratulations! So happy to see this!!! Blessings to all of you!
  18. I think it is great that you are already thinking and talking about this with each other. That way everyone has time to process and adjust ahead of time! I have enjoyed so much watching the relationship between Luke and Andrew blossom. Andrew absolutely adores Luke and smiles constantly at him and is happy as long as he is around. Luke has started doing little things like walking by and tickling him or playing with him on the ground crawling around. He is very protective of him and if someone approaches us he will point out "the baby" and show him off. If I take Luke out by himself sometimes and Andrew is with Rudy he will yell at me from the back seat "Mama, baby, baby!!!" thinking I have forgotten him. It's just amazing to watch the bonds forming. I truly hope they will be lifelong friends and support to each other. Obviously we do not have Luke's first family in our lives right now, but if they were to be open to that at some point I know we'd all be thrilled. M has even mentioned wishing she had Luke's birthmom to support and know each other. It wouldn't change our relationship with M that has been formed, but I think it would enhance it and simply be added to. It is amazing how adoption just keeps expanding your love, not dividing it!
  19. Deb, Just so you don't feel alone... my family also was a little hesitant about adoption also. In some ways, our telling them about our infertility seemed to be a bigger blow for them than us. Maybe it was because we slowly worked through that on our own and then talked in detail about adoption also before telling them. So maybe it just caught them off guard, while we had be gradually working through things. I will say that in my mind there seems to be a generational gap in understanding open adoption too. Not all my family "gets it" but recently my mom has asked more how M and her girls are doing and has said she respects us for keeping that relationship. I just feel like it is not what they experienced in their exposure to adoption as children and growing up. My extended family is all in the deep south, and there are definitely some differences in the way they feel in racial things and the way that we do. I do believe some of them were taken back that I married a Hispanic (ohhh, scandalous, right!? ) But I will say they seem to have grown and come a long way. I did have concerns that if we did adopt a black child that there might be some eyebrows raised at first (and we were totally open to that idea) but I felt that as soon as they laid eyes on any child that became a part of our family that they would melt. They have all embraced the two we have been blessed with. I definitely agree that education is the key...
  20. Please no on the KK adoption, please!!! I hope a social worker would watch at least 5 minutes of her train wreck reality show before doing anything!!!! I really hope this is all rumors, but not much surprises me anymore!
  21. So heartbreaking... so awful for that precious infant and his/her siblings left behind.
  22. Congratulations to the whole family on the arrival of this precious baby girl!!!!!!!!
  23. So... I am just curious... how much did being an adoptive family factor into you choosing a church? When we moved from Louisville to Lexington we already had Luke. We were hopeful to find a place that would be child-friendly in general (and adoption friendly was a bonus!) We found an amazing place that has embraced our kids and our family. Our kids literally disappear when we come in because someone wants to hold them or help take them to their nursery or class. They have tons of wonderful activities for the kids and we hope ours will enjoy them as they grow. It has amazed me too... I have not once been asked an insensitive infertility question. Adoption is celebrated... when a family adopts they and their new little one are introduced just like a family that has given birth would be. It just feels like a comfortable balance where we are not "the family that adopted" but yet adoption is accepted and celebrated. There are other adoptive families, foster families, mixed race families, and everything in between. I feel like our kids will never feel out of place there. We were there yesterday and I am just so thankful for such a safe and caring community so I thought I'd share.
  24. I recently was reading on an open adoption discussion and the use of the phrase "paper pregnant" was being discussed. It was quite heated back and forth as some like the phrase and some were saying how horrible and disrespectful it is. It is not a phrase we used in our adoption journeys, but I also don't think that most people that use the phrase mean any harm at all. I think with all things adoption there are so many emotions and sensitivities that make some terms or phrases disliked depending what position you are in. Has anyone used this phrase and had someone have a bad reaction to it? Just curious.
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