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Happy
Birthday Haley
by
Kay Green
Happy
1st Birthday Haley!
Hard
to believe a year has passed since the day Haley was placed in my arms
for the first time. It was 48 hours of such great emotion. We fell in love
with Haley and also with Mike & Connie and their families. We felt
such anxiety waiting to be sure that Haley was to be forever our daughter.
She smiled, laughed, cried, wondered, worried, prayed waiting for the
signatures that would make her our daughter. We grieved with them at their
loss of her. We gave her to God as they gave her to us. We dedicated
ourselves to loving her, to teaching her to love God, to making sure she
always knew of the great love her birth family had for her.
Hard
to believe 8 years have passed since I first felts God's direction that
there was another child still to come in our lives and I began praying.
This has been a year of loving her, rocking her to sleep, nursing her,
changing her, bathing her, teaching her and watching her. A year of
tremendous memories I will hold dear in my heart. A year of all her
firsts: smile, rolling over, crawling, teeth, words, standing, walking,
climbing and signing. This has been a year I will not forget. See her
photo chronicle at www.preciouskids.org/haley.html
When
I began the journey to Haley I had no idea what it would really hold. I
did not know about the whole world of adoption friends that I would find
online. Open adoption was a scary unknown thing that became a delightful
gift to us. We gained new family in Nebraska that will always be a
treasured part of our lives. PreciousKids.org
was birthed in the journey to Haley. I get to help other families everyday
to find their forever children. My life is incredibly richer by having
Haley as my daughter but also my being part of the adoption world.
Adoptive
breastfeeding has also enriched my life and Haley's. She has gained her
mama's precious breastmilk full of antibodies, enzymes, nutrition and much
love. This year has seen us go from a 20% milk supply to a 100% milk
supply with no drugs, only herbs, and prayer, and love. I have also been
able to help several other adoptive moms to discover the wonder of
nurturing their new adopt child at their breast. Haley and I also got to
be part of a TV show on adoptive breastfeeding with Discovery Health
Channel. www.preciouskids.org/adopt/adoptnursing.html
I
need to thank the many people who helped to make this dream a reality.
First I thank God for placing in my heart 8 years ago the desire to mother
another child and for making it possible. I am still amazed at how He
brought us all together half way across our nation. Secondly, thank you
Mike & Connie for your selfless gift of life you entrusted with us.
Thirdly I thank my husband for believing in me and the dream of my heart
for this child he named Haley Elizabeth. Thank you Melissa, Jordan, &
Allison, my teen children for embracing and helping with their new sister.
Thank you Nebraska Children's Society for doing all the legal work,
Interstate Compact paperwork and birth parent counseling all for free.
Thank you to our social worker Lynn Schwab for the hours put into our home
study and post placement visits. Thank you to our family and friends who
help us love Haley even more.
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Author
Kay Green lives in rural Oregon with her husband of 22 years and
4 kids ages 1-19 both homegrown and adopted. She runs 3 web
sites.
www.MyPreciousKid.com
Safety
ID cards/fingerprint kits for kids
www.PreciousKids.org
Adoption and Homeschool Resources
www.123phonerates.com
4-cents long distance
She
also runs several YahooGroups for support including
1christianwahm, 2lightenup4god, A1adoptionads, homeschool-anewbeginning
and others. You can reach her at kay@precouskids.org
COPYRIGHT
2001 Kay Green New Beginning Publishing
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