She and I went to Mexico on a study abroad together. She is an awesome girl. After our study abroad she served a mission. She married an awesome guy in the temple. She got a degree in Communications from BYU. She is a talented musician and also a talented photographer. She is just awesome.
Now Tiffany and Walt are ready to start their family. And they are choosing to do it through adoption. They have a medical condition that does not make it possible for their children to come to them biologically. But of course that is not the only way to grow your family! Their children will come to them through adoption. As we all know it doesn't matter if you grow a child in your belly or in your heart. Your child is your child. Heavenly Father has a plan for Tiffany and Walt and their children and a plan for the birth families of their children. They will just have to come together in a less traditional way. It is still an awesome way though.
Adoption is so much about word of mouth. My friend Emily and her husband Richard just welcomed their first child into their family through the miracle of adoption last month, and it was through word of mouth that their daughter's birth family found them! Someone knew someone who knew them. So it is powerful!
Please, if you could go to their blog here -- Be a Part of Our Loving Family -- and grab their button and add it to your own blog that would be awesome. Or maybe you could write a post about them. Or maybe you know of someone who is considering adoption and you could send them to Tiffany and Walt's webpage. Anything. I know that Tiffany and Walt would be so thankful and that their future family will be so thankful too :)
Doesn't she just look like a woman who would be the perfect mom? This is her with her sister's first baby.
Here she is with her husband:
Please share their story and help them on their journey to find their family through adoption!
3 comments:
I think someone needs to explain to me how this adoption thing works. Does LDS family services just fall short when it comes to placing children? How exactly does this "word of mouth" thing work? I am probably naive but it seems like you're saying the birth parents are perusing the internet looking for potential adoptive parents. That seems odd to me and I'd like to understand more about why this works. I have known a lot of people who start these "hoping to adopt" blogs and then I know people who are adopting babies by other means like open adoption. My brother and his wife are doing an overseas adoption. So help me understand please!
I really need an adoption 101 class because I don't understand how the word of mouth thing works. People make it sound like the birth mother is perusing the internet looking for potential parents and that just seems odd to me. Is this an LDS Family service thing or is it some other method I'm not aware of? Does it work this way for other adoption agencies? Is it a money thing? I need to be educated on this!
Oh, I sure wish them quick success with finding "their" child just waiting to come to them!!! What a cute couple.
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