We are adopting! This is something that has been five years in the making, folks, and we couldn't be more excited. We are a family of six (soon to be seven!): Brent (husband), Mary (wife), Abigail, Amelia, Aven and Adele (four daughters...yes, poor Hubby is greatly outnumbered). We live in Small Town, Texas and my husband and I are both veterinarians.
I stumbled onto Reece's Rainbow five years ago shortly after my daughter was born and have been advocating for and supporting a number of adoptions ever since.
AND NOW IT'S FINALLY OUR TURN! =)
This handsome little guy is "Charlie".
He is 11 years old and has Down Syndrome. He lives in an orphanage in Eastern Europe where he has lived since birth. In his country, and many others like it, babies with disabilities are abandoned by their families at birth simply because they have special needs. "Charlie" was, for most of his life, in a good orphanage with friends, therapies and education. He was recently transferred, however, to a rural institution that is nothing like the orphanage that he came from. He's been uprooted from everything he knows and moved to a sad, desolate place. I can't even imagine how shell-shocked he has to be.
You can read more about "Charlie", Reece's Rainbow and the plight of orphans with special needs at
reecesrainbow.org. I encourage you to visit their website, check out our
family sponsorship page and follow along here as we move through the adoption process. It's been an exciting, terrifying journey already and we can't wait to see what's next!
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