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Posted 07 January 2016 - 01:20 PM

Adoption Story CAF 4/?

 

Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Part 3

 

It has been two years since you welcomed your last child and things have been going well, you're currently in waiting for your next adoption from [roll], which you settled the paper work on about six months ago. However, before that, you moved the family into a new home considering your growing family you knew you guys would need a little more space, thankfully [LI] got a promotion the previous year to - [name position] - which has increased your house revenue by tenfold. Which helped, you ended up moving to a new house, [roll], [describe your house, how many rooms, bathrooms, special rooms, why you moved in to it, why you like it, what there is in the area, etc.]

 

It's late at night and you're currently organizing some files for work and are surprised when the phone rings and you see its your case worker, [name], as she had already spoken to you earlier today to once more inform you that you were still on the waiting list to be matched up with a child, and it was looking like no movement would be coming soon at all. You pick up the phone to answer and ask your social worker why they're calling so late and she informs you she's got some interesting news and a proposal for you and [LI] it appears that the birth mother of [child #1] has fallen pregnant again which was a huge blow for her, she's in college and trying to make the most of her life. Once more she's looking to adopt out her baby, and she wanted to ask you and [LI] first since the baby would be [child #1]'s half sibling and she knows it would go to a good home if you both raised the baby. You're stunned. You ask if you have time to think about the decision before giving an answer, you need to talk to [LI] and discuss it before you make any major decisions. [Your Agent] says that's fine, but informs you the quicker the better in circumstances like this so [birth mother] would be able to have more time to find a different family if you pick not to adopt her baby. You inform her you understand and end the conversation.

 

You finish your work and then a few hours later, [LI] comes home and they just want to go to bed, but you inform them you need to talk. You sit down in your living room with [LI] and inform them about the situation at hand, how [birth mother] is pregnant again and would like your family to adopt the baby. At first [LI] is as shocked as you were, but they bring up how you both want a big family. You agree and bring up all the empty space in your new large home. You both decide to sleep on it and head to bed

 

The next morning as you're bringing your kids to school and pre-school for the day, you bring up the idea of if they might like a new brother or sister and they respond individually. [Roll for each child], and this make you feel [your choice]. You drop all the kids off and think about what your children said and head off to work, you have a pretty good day and your co-worker even brings in her new baby, and you coo over him, he's absolutely adorable and it makes your heart yearn for another child. Later that day, when you go home, you and [LI] seem to both agree, you'd like to adopt [birth mother]'s baby. You call back your social worker and tell her that you would like to adopt the baby and she is more than pleased to hear it and you start up the process for it once more, signing things, agreeing to pay for certain costs and such.

 

Only a few months later you speak with [birth mother] to see how she is doing and how schooling is going for her, and its good, thankfully it seems her pregnancy will be in its latent months over the summer and it won't affect her school work, she also informs you that she's found out the baby's gender that day and the baby is a - [opposite gender of child #1]. You're thrilled and quickly send off a text to [LI] to let them know before wishing birth mother well and heading off your lunch break to get back to work.

 

When you get home that day you surprise your mother with the news that she'll be a grandmother again and of course she's thrilled. Then you inform the children who still don't entirely all seem so sure, but when you explain that they can help you decorate the room. [child #2] (and [child #3]) is/are very excited, but [child #1] seems a little more hesitant so you try and get them involved, but soon enough the nursery is done and looks fantastic. All your children now seem excited, especially [child #1].

 

As the pregnancy progresses, its time to start thinking about names and you and [LI] talk back and forth having some trouble, but in the end you find some names you like and can agree on for the baby's first name, [pick from list], but have trouble finding a matching middle name, but decide to leave it be for now. It'll come to you later and its not worth fighting over with [LI].

 

Of course, nothing can go as expected and on a hot, July afternoon, [birth mother] goes into labor three weeks early and your baby arrives! They're 6 pounds and 2 ounces and 17 inches long. This time both you and [LI] were in the delivery room for the birth and it was magical, a little scary, but magical. Your children are in the waiting room with your mother and [LI]'s parents, who're all very excited to meet their new family member, and so you bring out your [roll] hair and [roll] eyed bundle of joy and finally express their full name [child #3/4]. You decided to give them a middle name after [birth mother] since she truly has given you such gifts in [child #1] and in your newest baby. As you seem swaddled in their blanket with your mother holding him/her and your other children watching them with wide, excited eyes you could not find yourself ever feeling this happy before and you're so grateful.

 

 

Please list your family!

 

DICE:

 

Adoptive Country:

1. Columbia

2. Korea

3. Ukraine

4. Taiwan

5. Your Choice

6. Haiti

 

Homes:

1. Option 1

2. Option 2

3. Option 3

4. Option 4

5. Option 5

6. Option 6

 

Children's Opinions: 

1. Joy

2. Excited

3. Nervous

4. Upset

5. Don't care

6. Your Choice

 

Nursery:

Baby Boy Nursery

Baby Girl Nursery

 

Names:

Boy First Name

Girl First Name

 

Middle Name: After birth mother.

 

Hair Color:

1. Red

2. Blonde

3. Brown

4. Black

5. Brown

6. Your Choice

 

Eye Color:

1. Blue

2.  Green

3. Hazel

4. Hazel

5. Brown

6. Your Choice

 

 



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Posted 07 January 2016 - 04:49 PM

Gregor 'Greg' Archibald Maes [36]
Blonde Hair - Hazel Eyes - History Professor

Zacharias 'Zack' Jasper Maes [36]
Blonde Hair - Blue Eyes - Political TV Correspondant

Sebastian 'Seb' Jasper Maes [5]
Brown Hair - Blue Eyes - Biological Child of Emily 'Milly' Sophia Vega

Wesley 'Wes' Arhchibald Maes [4]
Blonde Hair - Blue Eyes - Adopted from Ukraine

Joseph 'Joe' Zacharias Maes [4]
Blonde Hair - Blue Eyes - Adopted from Ukraine

Anneliese 'Anna' Emily Maes [0]
Brown Hair - Hazel Eyes - Biological Child of Emily 'Milly' Sophia Vega

~~~~~


Margaret 'Maggie' Katherine Hansen [54]
Black Hair - Hazel Eyes - Mother of Greg

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Tobias 'Toby' Jasper Maes Sr [74]
Blonde Hair - Green Eyes - Father of Toby, Tad, Bea and Zack

Lillian 'Lily' Eleanor Maes [70]
Brown Hair - Blue Eyes - Mother of Toby, Tad, Bea and Zack

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Tobias 'Toby' Jasper Maes Jr [41]
Brown Hair - Green Eyes - Zack's Brother - Husband of Lydia - Father of TJ, Soph and Em

Thaddeus 'Tad' Jasper Maes [41]
Brown Hair - Green Eyes - Zack's Brother - Husband of Georgia - Father of Nick, Nate and Nora

Beatrice 'Bea' Edith Maes [38]
Blonde Hair - Blue Eyes - Zack's Sister - Wife of Oscar - Mother of Dom and Amy



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Posted 07 January 2016 - 09:06 PM

It has been two years since you welcomed your last child and things have been going well, you're currently in waiting for your next adoption from Ukraine, which you settled the paper work on about six months ago. However, before that, you moved the family into a new home considering your growing family you knew you guys would need a little more space, thankfully Gray got a promotion the previous year to - principal - which has increased your house revenue by tenfold. Which helped, you ended up moving to a new house.

 

It's late at night and you're currently organizing some files for work and are surprised when the phone rings and you see its your case worker, Paloma, as she had already spoken to you earlier today to once more inform you that you were still on the waiting list to be matched up with a child, and it was looking like no movement would be coming soon at all. You pick up the phone to answer and ask your social worker why they're calling so late and she informs you she's got some interesting news and a proposal for you and Gray it appears that the birth mother of Lila has fallen pregnant again which was a huge blow for her, she's in college and trying to make the most of her life. Once more she's looking to adopt out her baby, and she wanted to ask you and Gray first since the baby would be Lila's half sibling and she knows it would go to a good home if you both raised the baby. You're stunned. You ask if you have time to think about the decision before giving an answer, you need to talk to Lila and discuss it before you make any major decisions. Paloma says that's fine, but informs you the quicker the better in circumstances like this so Isabella would be able to have more time to find a different family if you pick not to adopt her baby. You inform her you understand and end the conversation.

 

You finish your work and then a few hours later, Gray comes home and they just want to go to bed, but you inform them you need to talk. You sit down in your living room with Gray and inform them about the situation at hand, how Isabella is pregnant again and would like your family to adopt the baby. At first Gray is as shocked as you were, but they bring up how you both want a big family. You agree and bring up all the empty space in your new large home. You both decide to sleep on it and head to bed

 

The next morning as you're bringing your kids to school and pre-school for the day, you bring up the idea of if they might like a new brother or sister and they respond individually. Maggie and Kai don't care, being only two and Lila is excited, and this make you feel better. You drop all the kids off and think about what your children said and head off to work, you have a pretty good day and your co-worker even brings in her new baby, and you coo over him, he's absolutely adorable and it makes your heart yearn for another child. Later that day, when you go home, you and Gray seem to both agree, you'd like to adopt Isabella's baby. You call back your social worker and tell her that you would like to adopt the baby and she is more than pleased to hear it and you start up the process for it once more, signing things, agreeing to pay for certain costs and such.

 

Only a few months later you speak with Isabella to see how she is doing and how schooling is going for her, and its good, thankfully it seems her pregnancy will be in its latent months over the summer and it won't affect her school work, she also informs you that she's found out the baby's gender that day and the baby is a - boy. You're thrilled and quickly send off a text to Gray to let them know before wishing birth mother well and heading off your lunch break to get back to work.

 

When you get home that day you surprise your mother with the news that she'll be a grandmother again and of course she's thrilled. Then you inform the children who still don't entirely all seem so sure, but when you explain that they can help you decorate the room. Maggie and Kai are very excited, but Gray seems a little more hesitant so you try and get them involved, but soon enough the nursery is done and looks fantastic. All your children now seem excited, especially Lila.

 

As the pregnancy progresses, its time to start thinking about names and you and Gray talk back and forth having some trouble, but in the end you find some names you like and can agree on for the baby's first name, Luciano, but have trouble finding a matching middle name, but decide to leave it be for now. It'll come to you later and its not worth fighting over with Gray.

 

Of course, nothing can go as expected and on a hot, July afternoon, Isabella goes into labor three weeks early and your baby arrives! They're 6 pounds and 2 ounces and 17 inches long. This time both you and Gray were in the delivery room for the birth and it was magical, a little scary, but magical. Your children are in the waiting room with your mother and Gray's parents, who're all very excited to meet their new family member, and so you bring out your blonde hair and hazel eyed bundle of joy and finally express their full name Luciano Isaac. You decided to give them a middle name after [birth mother] since she truly has given you such gifts in Lila and in your newest baby. As you seem swaddled in their blanket with your mother holding him and your other children watching them with wide, excited eyes you could not find yourself ever feeling this happy before and you're so grateful.

 

Gray Atticus and Alice Jean Simon and Lila Mae, Kai Alistair, Maggie Grace, and Luciano Isaac



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Posted 07 January 2016 - 11:16 PM

Your name is Clover Myra Danielson, you have Red hair and Blue eyes and you're 21 years old. You're a student at Stanford University and you're pursuing a major in English. Ever since you've come to college, you've always been focused on your studies, you've worked very hard to get into Stanford and need to maintain a certain GPA to continue getting your scholarship money to enable you to continue, the second being you need to be able to get scholarships to go on and further your education.

 

However, today is the last of your day Junior year of undergrad and you've just taken your final exam, you're thrilled, and feel like you've passed all your classes with flying colors and you could not be more ecstatic. All you want to do now is sleep, maybe watch some netflix, but your roommate, Shiloh Emerson,  insists you accompany her to the party to make sure she gets home safe since she plans on drinking. You loathe the idea, but she did help you out studying for your final in Chemistry. So, you accompany her to the party and watch her have a good time and hang out on the outskirts of the party.

 

Suddenly, a guy comes up to you. You dismiss him at first, but he made a comment about your favorite tv show which kind of catches your interest. He's got Blonde hair and Blue eyes and introduces himself as  Ewan Felix Raske, he's 21 years old. You start talking to Ewan and find out about him, he is apparently a legacy of the university, went to prep schools his whole life, has traveled the world with his bourgeois family and while that would usually make you feel a bit of a chip on your shoulder, for some reason, it doesn't with Ewan. You find him charming. You also find out that Ewan is majoring in  Biochemistry and the way they speak about their major so passionately entices you. You talk for hours before your roommate stumbles over. Realizing you need to get her home, but not wanting the conversation with Ewan to end so you exchange numbers and promise to call him later. You leave with your roommate and head back to your dorm, feeling much happier than when you arrived at the party.

 

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It's been ten years since the night of the party and you honestly cannot help but to look back fondly on it. It's the first night you met Ewan who has now become your husband. You've both graduated from not only your undergrad programs, but from your respective graduate school programs and are each working in your dream jobs -  as a Book Editor and a forensic scientist. You and Ewan could not be happier right now. However, there does seem to be something missing. The pitter patter of little feet. So, you and Ewan decide to start trying for a family, you spend 1 year trying and failing to get pregnant, but nothing happens. No pregnancy.

 

You see a fertility doctor who unfortunately informs you that between the two of you there is a low sperm count and apparently a previously undiagnosed case of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome between you. The chance of you two having a biological child together is next to near impossible. The first thought of it stuns you both, you go home with that knowledge and both discuss some options, but you mostly grieve your loss. Both you and Ewan have always wanted a big family, you as an only child and then Ewan comes from a big family with a slew of brothers and sisters. 

It takes you 2 months to finally broach the subject of what you two want to do next, stay childless or look into adoption. It's an easy discussion between us and we decide we want to look into adoption. The first thing we decide is we want to look into both international adoption and into domestic adoption. It takes us some time to find an agency to work with and then to get our home looked into and approved for viability. It's a longer process then expected, but a year later you've been set up by the agency and made an adoption book and just hoped that you would be matched with someone; then one day you were.

 

Your case worker informs you that you've been chosen by a young teen, Sophia Emily Vega, who has fallen pregnant. She wants the adoption to be closed, the child is a product of a one night stand and while against abortion, she just wants to have the baby and be done with it. While you feel sorry for the girl, an excitement does well inside of your chest. You and Ewan want this, you want to be parents. You meet with Sophia and she comes to your house. You all talk and in the end, you sign the papers. You agree to help pay for the cost of her pregnancy from now on, from making sure her medical bills are paid, new maternity clothes are purchased and help her with getting good healthy food. Other than that there is minimal contact which works well for all parties. 

 

We find out at the six month mark that Sophia is expecting a girl. Either sex would have been okay, but you and Ewan are just so thrilled. The first thing you both do is go to half a dozen baby stores and purchase all the things you have always wanted to buy. You spend hours after, well into the night and wee hours of the morning setting up a nursery. It looks so beautiful and you honestly cry. You never thought that first night after seeing the infertility doctor you would ever get to set up a nursery.

 

The rest of the pregnancy goes by so fast, I work through the whole situation by working extra hours and then well, it happens. Sophia goes into labor. It's a quick one and we're there the whole time in the waiting room. Your little one is born perfect with red hair and brown eyes weighing in at 7 pounds and 9 ounces and 23 inches long. Sophia signs away her rights without ever seeing her and has no desire to do so which hurts a little, but what feels even better is looking down and just knowing Hazel Genevieve is coming home with you. Where she belongs and you and Ewan feel such joy as you strap her into her car seat to take Hazel home.

 

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It has been a year since you welcomed Hazel into your family and both you and Ewan love being parents, while at times its very hard considering you both work demanding jobs and with you having been promoted, but thanks to help from your mother, Caroline Louise Danielson, you know Hazel is always in good hands even if you and Ewan are busy with work.

 

However, later that week you, Ewan and Hazel attend his family's yearly reunion. You're staying with his parents, Celia Guinevere and Elias Calvin Raske, while you do so. You love hanging out with all of his siblings; Jasper Tobias, Mirabel Edith, Genevieve Mae and Atticus Josiah; their spouses and all your nieces and nephews as Ewan is the youngest child in his family. They're always talking to you guys and giving advice about child rearing, relationships, etc and while irksome at times you know it all comes from a good and loving place. Later, when speaking to Gen, she asks you if you plan to have anymore kids or if you guys just plan to have Hazel. You offhandedly comment that you would like more kids, but are unsure when you and Ewan intend to look into further adoption and go back to talking about other things, but the thought does seem to stay with you a bit.

 

The night after the reunion and after coming home from work and putting Hazel to bed, you and Ewan are reading in bed when Ewan brings back up the fact that you both still would like to adopt internationally and that that can take quite a bit of time. You agree with Ewan having known other people in the adoption community in online support groups who have waited years, you know you just got very lucky with Hazel. You both agree to go to bed and place a call with your case worker and agency tomorrow about paper work considering the likely occurrence of a two to four year wait to be matched up with a child.

 

The next day on your lunch break you place a call to your agent, Ophelia Jones, and she agrees it would be good to start working through the papers since it could take some time. Ophelia explains which countries they have current associations with and informs you that you and Ewan need to pick one to start the process. You chit chat a little more about how Hazel is doing before hanging up and heading back to work that day, extremely excited.

 

That night you ask Ewan's oldest sibling and their spouse - Jasper and Georgia - to watch Hazel so you and Ewan can decide on which country you want to adopt from. After leaving Hazel you go out and have a nice dinner together for the first time in awhile and savor it, making some small work talk before hitting to harder subjects. You discuss some of the places that intrigue you both, you make it down to your top three locations, Africa, China, and Russia, eventually you end up deciding on China.

 

Later that night you and Ewan send an email off to your agent to get the ball rolling on the process. The next day you pick up Hazel from Jasper's and feel refreshed and excited about your decision. Over the next couple of months, both you and Ewan work through the paper work, have your home visits and then hit the dry spell you knew would hit, but you fill it with exciting things including your first family vacation with Hazel.

 

It takes some time for you to decide, but you end up picking Sesame Place in Pennsylvania. You and Ewan pick a less crowded week to take off, not around traditional holidays and then spend said week with your family making memories and taking a ton of photos.

 

Sadly, even after that you still haven't heard much back from your agent other then she's still looking to match you and Ewan with a child. You try not to feel disheartened by the time frame and continue to enjoy life as it is now. You get into a routine again with Ewan and Hazel, and your monthly discussions with your case worker to check in until it's been about a year and a half since you put in the paper work and Hazel is just a month away from turning three! You can't believe how big she's gotten.

 

While shopping for Scooby Doo themed things for Hazel's party, you get a call from your agent. They've found a match! You ask Ophelia if you can call her back in a minute as your out and not at a computer to receive the file and she agrees. You rush through check out and quickly call Ewan telling them they need to get home; you've been matched! You throw everything into the car and drive home and thankfully Ewan is there as well and you call back your agent who informs you that you've been matched with infant Boy/Girl Twins and you couldn't be more thrilled. You speak with her for another hour before she sends the file and you open it up, look through pictures and feel your heart melt. You and Ewan browse through it a little more before leaving to go pick up Hazel from a day with Ewan's parents.

 

You get home and Ewan makes dinner and you bring up having a younger sibling to Hazel and she seems excited by the idea which eases some of your tension and you call back your agent and talk through the process, you set up to go do a first visit in two months when you'll be off for Christmas break from work. You, Ewan, your mother and Hazel fly off to China and meet your precious babies, they have black hair and brown eyes, for the first time, they're adorable and down right perfect and you fall in love with them, at the end of the week and a half when you have to say good, you can't imagine anything more painful, but your mother and Ewan help you get through it. You'll be returning for them soon enough.

 

As soon as your family gets home, you start to set up a nursery for your little ones. You get Hazel involved with painting and helping to set it all up and the next thing you know its been another month and you and Ewan travel back to China to go pick up your little ones for good, to take home, and when you arrive, Ewan's whole family, your mother and Hazel are there with all the food, gifts and babysitting offers you could ever want; of course what they're all eagerly awaiting is news your glad to give as you inform them of the names you've chosen for your newest additions, Luca Daniel and Lena Felicity, are welcome joyfully into the Raske clan.

 

Clover's Mother: Caroline Louise Danielson

 

Ewan's Mother: Celia Guinevere Raske

Ewan's Father: Elias Calvin Raske

 

DS: Jasper Tobias Raske - DW: Georgia Alice

DD: Nora Frances

DS: Hugh Duncan

DS: Owen Graham

DS/DS: Cole Patrick/Clay Harrison

DD: Lucy Beatrice

DD: Mirabel Edith  - DH: Calvin Arthur

DD: Mabel Rose "May"

DS: Gabriel Simon "Gabe"

DS: Christian Lewis "Chris"

DS: Julian Isaac "Jules"

DD: Genevieve Mae - DH: Frederick Roman

DD: Leila Isabel

DD: Julia Margaret

DD/DD: Eliza Helen/ Emma Eleanor

DS: Theo Nathaniel

DS: Henry Sebastian

DD: Maya Charlotte

DD: Chloe Allegra

DS: Atticus Josiah Raske - DW: Eloise Josephine

DD: Natalie Juliet "Nat"

DS: Malcolm Jonas "Mac"

DD: Addison Josie "Addy"

LI: Ewan Felix Raske - Clover Myra

DD: Hazel Genevieve

DS/DD: Luca Daniel/ Lena Felicity

DS: Shiloh Emmett

 

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It has been two years since you welcomed your last child and things have been going well, you're currently in waiting for your next adoption from Korea, which you settled the paper work on about six months ago. However, before that, you moved the family into a new home considering your growing family you knew you guys would need a little more space, thankfully Ewan got a promotion the previous year which has increased your house revenue by tenfold. Which helped, you ended up moving to a new house, we love it because it had plenty of lawn space but was still near neighbors. It has four bedrooms, two full bathrooms, a small study so that you can work from home when you need to (plus the study can serve the double function of a small library for the many books you've collected over the years)  

 

It's late at night and you're currently organizing some files for work and are surprised when the phone rings and you see its your case worker, Ophelia, as she had already spoken to you earlier today to once more inform you that you were still on the waiting list to be matched up with a child, and it was looking like no movement would be coming soon at all. You pick up the phone to answer and ask your social worker why they're calling so late and she informs you she's got some interesting news and a proposal for you and Ewan it appears that the birth mother of Hazel has fallen pregnant again which was a huge blow for her, she's in college and trying to make the most of her life. Once more she's looking to adopt out her baby, and she wanted to ask you and Ewan first since the baby would be Hazel's half sibling and she knows it would go to a good home if you both raised the baby. You're stunned. You ask if you have time to think about the decision before giving an answer, you need to talk to Ewan and discuss it before you make any major decisions. Ophelia says that's fine, but informs you the quicker the better in circumstances like this so Sophia would be able to have more time to find a different family if you pick not to adopt her baby. You inform her you understand and end the conversation.

 

You finish your work and then a few hours later, Ewan comes home and he just wants to go to bed, but you inform them you need to talk. You sit down in your living room with Ewan and inform him about the situation at hand, how Sophia is pregnant again and would like your family to adopt the baby. At first Ewan is as shocked as you were, but they bring up how you both want a big family. You agree and bring up all the empty space in your new large home. You both decide to sleep on it and head to bed

 

The next morning as you're bringing your kids to school and pre-school for the day, you bring up the idea of if they might like a new brother or sister and Hazel seems full of Joy at the prospect but Luca and Lena are both nervous, and this make you feel conflicted. You drop all the kids off and think about what your children said and head off to work, you have a pretty good day and your co-worker even brings in her new baby, and you coo over him, he's absolutely adorable and it makes your heart yearn for another child. Later that day, when you go home, you and Ewan seem to both agree, you'd like to adopt Sophia's baby. You call back your social worker and tell her that you would like to adopt the baby and she is more than pleased to hear it and you start up the process for it once more, signing things, agreeing to pay for certain costs and such.

 

Only a few months later you speak with Sophia to see how she is doing and how schooling is going for her, and its good, thankfully it seems her pregnancy will be in its latest months over the summer and it won't affect her school work, she also informs you that she's found out the baby's gender that day and the baby is a boy. You're thrilled and quickly send off a text to Ewan to let them know before wishing Sophia well and heading off your lunch break to get back to work.

 

When you get home that day you surprise your mother with the news that she'll be a grandmother again and of course she's thrilled. Then you inform the children who still don't all seem entirely sure, but then you explain that they can help you decorate the room. Luca and Lena are very excited, but Hazel seems a little more hesitant so you try and get her involved, but soon enough the nursery is done and looks fantastic. All your children now seem excited, especially Hazel.

 

As the pregnancy progresses, its time to start thinking about names and you and Ewan talk back and forth having some trouble, but in the end you find a name you like and can agree on for the baby's first name, Shiloh, but have trouble finding a matching middle name, but decide to leave it be for now. It'll come to you later and its not worth fighting over with Ewan.

 

Of course, nothing can go as expected and on a hot, July afternoon, Sophia goes into labor three weeks early and your baby arrives! He is 6 pounds and 2 ounces and 17 inches long. This time both you and Ewan were in the delivery room for the birth and it was magical, a little scary, but magical. Your children are in the waiting room with your mother and Ewan's parents, who're all very excited to meet their new family member, and so you bring out your red hair and Hazel eyed bundle of joy and finally express their full name Shiloh Emmett. You decided to give them a middle name after Sophia since she truly has given you such gifts in Hazel and in your newest baby. As you see him swaddled in his blanket with your mother holding him and your other children watching them with wide, excited eyes you could not find yourself ever feeling this happy before and you're so grateful.

 

 

 

Clover Myra and Ewan Felix Raske (39)

Red hair and Blue eyes, Blonde Hair and Blue eyes

 

Hazel Genevieve Raske (6) (Birth Mother: Sophia Emily Vega)

Red hair and Brown eyes

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Posted 08 January 2016 - 03:34 PM

It has been two years since you welcomed your last child and things have been going well, you're currently in waiting for your next adoption from Haiti, which you settled the paper work on about six months ago. However, before that, you moved the family into a new home considering your growing family you knew you guys would need a little more space, thankfully Ned got a promotion the previous year which has increased your house revenue by tenfold. Which helped, you ended up moving to a new house.
 
It's late at night and you're currently organizing some files for work and are surprised when the phone rings and you see its your case worker, Xanthe, as she had already spoken to you earlier today to once more inform you that you were still on the waiting list to be matched up with a child, and it was looking like no movement would be coming soon at all. You pick up the phone to answer and ask your social worker why they're calling so late and she informs you she's got some interesting news and a proposal for you and Ned it appears that the birth mother of Pearl has fallen pregnant again which was a huge blow for her, she's in college and trying to make the most of her life. Once more she's looking to adopt out her baby, and she wanted to ask you and Ned first since the baby would be Pearl's half sibling and she knows it would go to a good home if you both raised the baby. You're stunned. You ask if you have time to think about the decision before giving an answer, you need to talk to Ned and discuss it before you make any major decisions. Xanthe says that's fine, but informs you the quicker the better in circumstances like this so Mary would be able to have more time to find a different family if you pick not to adopt her baby. You inform her you understand and end the conversation.
 
You finish your work and then a few hours later, Ned comes home and they just want to go to bed, but you inform them you need to talk. You sit down in your living room with Ned and inform them about the situation at hand, how Mary is pregnant again and would like your family to adopt the baby. At first Ned is as shocked as you were, but they bring up how you both want a big family. You agree and bring up all the empty space in your new large home. You both decide to sleep on it and head to bed.
 
The next morning as you're bringing your kids to school and pre-school for the day, you bring up the idea of if they might like a new brother or sister and they respond individually. Pearl is full of joy and Mimi doesn't care, and this makes you relieved. You drop all the kids off and think about what your children said and head off to work, you have a pretty good day and your co-worker even brings in her new baby, and you coo over him, he's absolutely adorable and it makes your heart yearn for another child. Later that day, when you go home, you and Ned seem to both agree, you'd like to adopt Mary's baby. You call back your social worker and tell her that you would like to adopt the baby and she is more than pleased to hear it and you start up the process for it once more, signing things, agreeing to pay for certain costs and such.
 
Only a few months later you speak with Mary to see how she is doing and how schooling is going for her, and its good, thankfully it seems her pregnancy will be in its latent months over the summer and it won't affect her school work, she also informs you that she's found out the baby's gender that day and the baby is a boy. You're thrilled and quickly send off a text to Ned to let them know before wishing Mary well and heading off your lunch break to get back to work.
 
When you get home that day you surprise your mother with the news that she'll be a grandmother again and of course she's thrilled. Then you inform the children who still don't entirely all seem so sure, but when you explain that they can help you decorate the room. Mimi is very excited, but Pearl seems a little more hesitant so you try and get them involved, but soon enough the nursery is done and looks fantastic. All your children now seem excited, especially Pearl.
 
As the pregnancy progresses, its time to start thinking about names and you and Ned talk back and forth having some trouble, but in the end you find some names you like and can agree on for the baby's first name, Enzo, but have trouble finding a matching middle name, but decide to leave it be for now. It'll come to you later and its not worth fighting over with Ned.
 
Of course, nothing can go as expected and on a hot, July afternoon, Mary goes into labor three weeks early and your baby arrives! They're 6 pounds and 2 ounces and 17 inches long. This time both you and Ned were in the delivery room for the birth and it was magical, a little scary, but magical. Your children are in the waiting room with your mother and Ned's parents, who're all very excited to meet their new family member, and so you bring out your blond haired, blue eyed bundle of joy and finally express their full name Enzo Ismael. You decided to give them a middle name after Mary since she truly has given you such gifts in Pearl and in your newest baby. As you seem swaddled in their blanket with your mother holding him and your other children watching them with wide, excited eyes you could not find yourself ever feeling this happy before and you're so grateful.
 
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Imogen 'Ginny' Elspeth (Dahl) Mulder {38} - Red hair, brown eyes, lawyer
Edmund 'Ned' Amos Mulder {37} - Black hair, blue eyes, high school English teacher
 
Pearl Cordelia Mulder {6} - Blonde hair, green eyes
Mimi Edith Mulder {4} - Black hair, brown eyes
Enzo Ismael Mulder {0} - Blond hair, blue eyes
 
 
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Posted 13 January 2016 - 02:29 AM

Your name is Ruby Jean Olsen, you have blonde hair and blue eyes and you're 21 years old. You're a student at Fordham University and you're pursuing a major in History. Ever since you've come to college, you've always been focused on your studies, you've worked very hard to get into Fordham and need to maintain a certain GPA to continue getting your scholarship money to enable you to continue, the second being you need to be able to get scholarships to go on and further your education.

 

However, today is the last day of your  Junior year of undergrad and you've just taken your final exam, you're thrilled, and feel like you've passed all your classes with flying colors and you could not be more ecstatic. All you want to do now is sleep, maybe watch some netflix, but your roommate, Aubrey Taylor Johnson,  insists you accompany her to the party to make sure she gets home safe since she plans on drinking. You loathe the idea, but she did help you out studying for your final in Statistics. So, you accompany her to the party and watch her have a good time and hang out on the outskirts of the party.

 

Suddenly, a guy comes up to you. You dismiss him at first, but he made a comment about the Millionaires since I was wearing their merch which kind of catches your interest. Horatio Atticus Pender's got black hair and blue eyes and introduces themselves as Horatio, they're 21 years old. You start talking to Horatio and find out about them, they're apparently legacies of the university, went to prep schools their whole life, have traveled the world with their bourgeois family and while that would usually make you feel a bit of a chip on your shoulder, for some reason, it doesn't with Horatio. You find them charming. You also find out that Horatio is majoring in Biochemistry and the way they speak about their major so passionately entices you. You talk for hours before your roommate stumbles over. Realizing you need to get her home, but not wanting the conversation with Horatio to end so you exchange numbers and promise to call them later. You leave with your roommate and head back to your dorm, feeling much happier than when you arrived at the party.

 

It's been ten years since the night of the party and you honestly cannot help but to look back fondly on it. It's the first night you met Horatio who has now become your husband. You've both graduated from not only your undergrad programs, but from your respective graduate programs and are each working in your dream jobs as a history professor and a biochemist. You and Horatio could not be happier right now. However, there does seem to be something missing. The pitter patter of little feet. So, you and Horatio decide to start trying for a family, you spend 1 year trying and failing to get pregnant, but nothing happens. No pregnancy.

 

You see a fertility doctor who unfortunately informs you that between the two of you there is a low sperm count and apparently a previously undiagnosed case of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome between you. The chance of you two having a biological child together is next to near impossible. The first thought of it stuns you both, you go home with that knowledge and both discuss some options, but you mostly grieve your loss. Both you and Horatio have always wanted a big family, you as an only child and then Horatio comes from a big family with a slew of brothers and sisters.
 

It takes you 3 months to finally broach the subject of what you two want to do next, stay childless or look into adoption. It's an easy discussion between you and you decide you want to look into adoption. The first thing you decide is to look into both international adoption and domestic adoption. It takes some time to find an agency to work with and then to get your home looked into and approved for viability. It's a longer process then expected, but a year later you've been set up by the agency and made an adoption book and just hoped that you would be matched with someone; then one day you were.

 

Your case worker informs you that you've been chosen by a young teen, Emma Mary Vega, who has fallen pregnant. She wants the adoption to be closed. While you feel sorry for the girl, an excitement does well inside of your chest. You and Horatio want this, you want to be parents. You meet with Emma and she comes to your house. You all talk and in the end, you sign the papers. You agree to help pay for the cost of her pregnancy from now on, from making sure her medical bills are paid, new maternity clothes are purchased and help her with getting good healthy food. Other than that there is minimal contact which works well for all parties. 

 

You find out at the six month mark that Emma is expecting a boy. Either sex would have been okay, but you and Horatio are just so thrilled. The first thing you both do is go to half a dozen baby stores and purchase all the things you have always wanted to buy. You spend hours after, well into the night and wee hours of the morning setting up a nursery. It looks so beautiful and you honestly cry. You never thought that first night after seeing the infertility doctor you would ever get to set up a nursery.

 

The rest of the pregnancy goes by so fast, you work through the whole situation by working extra hours and then well, it happens. Emma goes into labor. It's a quick one and you're there the whole time in the waiting room. Your little one is born perfect with blonde hair and hazel eyes weighing in at 7 pounds and 9 ounces and 23 inches long. Emma signs away her rights without ever seeing him. You feel incredible when you look down and just know August Tobias Pender is coming home with you. Where they belong and you and Horatio feel such joy as you strap them into their car seat to take Gus home.

 

It has been a year since you welcomed Gus into your family and both you and Horatio love being parents, while at times its very hard considering you both work demanding jobs and with you having been promoted up a position to being tenured, but thanks to help from your mother, Olivia Jane Olsen, you know Gus is always in good hands even if you and Horatio are busy with work.

 

However, later that week you,   Horatio and Gus attend his family's yearly reunion. You're staying with his parents, Vivian Eloise Pender and Roman Elias Pender, while you do so. You love hanging out with all of his siblings, (Eliza Clementine Thatcher, Violet Mae Yates, and Matilda Edith Urban), their spouses, (Oscar Josiah Thatcher, Jasper Montgomery Yates, and Sebastian Phineas Urban), and all your nieces and nephews, (Josie Eliza Thatcher, Natalie Rose Thatcher, Amelia Kate Thatcher, Georgia Claire Thatcher, Isaiah Oscar Thatcher, Daisy Alice Yates, Lucy Violet Yates, Maisie Hope Yates, Zoe Paige Yates, Grace "Gracie" Anna Yates, Milo Sebastian Urban, Sawyer Elias Urban, Fiona Edith Urban, Tess Margaret Urban, and Quentin Anderson Urban), as Horatio is the youngest child in his family. They're always talking to you guys and giving advice about child rearing, relationships, etc and while irksome at times you know it all comes from a good and loving place. Later, when speaking to Violet, they ask you if you plan to have anymore kids or if you guys just plan to have Gus. You offhandedly comment that you would like more kids, but are unsure when you and Horatio intend to look into further adoption and go back to talking about other things, but the thought does seem to stay with you a bit.

 

The night after the reunion and after coming home from work and putting Gus to bed, you and Horatio are reading in bed when Horatio brings back up the fact that you both still would like to adopt internationally and that that can take quite a bit of time. You agree with Horatio having known other people in the adoption community in online support groups who have waited years, you know you just got very lucky with Gus. You both agree to go to bed and place a call with your case worker and agency tomorrow about paper work considering the likely occurrence of a two to four year wait to be matched up with a child.

 

The next day on your lunch break you place a call to your agent, Allegra Giselle Smith, and she agrees it would be good to start working through the papers since it could take some time. Allegra explains which countries they have current associations with and informs you that you and Horatio need to pick one to start the process. We chit chat a little more about how Gus is doing before hanging up and heading back to work that day, extremely excited.

 

That night you ask Horatio's oldest sibling and their spouse - Eliza and Oscar - to watch Gus so you and Horatio can decide on which country you want to adopt from. After leaving Gus you go out and have a nice dinner together for the first time in awhile and savor it, making some small work talk before hitting to harder subjects. You discuss some of the places that intrigue you both, you make it down to your top three locations, Ireland, Ethiopia, and Sweden, eventually you end up deciding on Ethiopia because you feel they have a higher need for adoptive parents.

 

Later that night you and Horatio send an email off to your agent to get the ball rolling on the process. The next day you pick up Gus from Horatio's sibling and feel refreshed and excited about your decision. Over the next couple of months, both you and Horatio work through the paper work, have your home visits and then hit the dry spell you knew would hit, but you fill it with exciting things including your first family vacation with Gus.

 

It takes some time for you to decide, but you end up picking the Bahamas to go to Atlantis. You and Horatio pick a less crowded week to take off, not around traditional holidays and then spend said week with your family making memories and taking a ton of photos. You had a lot of fun at the dolphin cay,the water park, rock climbing and even getting to check out the comedy club and the spa but, it definitely was a long flight both ways with a young child.

 

Sadly, even after that you still haven't heard much back from your agent other then she's still looking to match you and Horatio with a child. You try not to feel disheartened by the time frame and continue to enjoy life as it is now. You get into a routine again with Horatio and Gus, and your monthly discussions with your case worker to check in until it's been about a year and a half since you put in the paper work and Gus is just a month away from turning three! You can't believe how big they've gotten.

 

While shopping for themed thing for Gus' party, they're having a Despicable Me theme, you get a call from your agent. They've found a match! You ask agent if you can call them back in a minute as your out and not at a computer to receive the file and they agree. You rush through check out and quickly call Horatio telling them they need to get home; you've been matched! You throw everything into the car and drive home and thankfully Horatio is there as well and you call back your agent who informs you that you've been matched with a 2 year old girl and you couldn't be more thrilled. You speak with her for another hour before she sends the file and you open it up, look through pictures and feel your heart melt. You and Horatio browse through it a little more before leaving to go pick up Gus from a day with Horatio's parents.

 

You get home and Horatio makes dinner and you bring up having a younger sibling to Gus and they seem excited by the idea which eases some of your tension and you call back your agent and talk through the process, you set up to go do a first visit in two months when you'll be off for Christmas break from work. You, Horatio, your mother and Gus fly off to Ethiopia and meet your precious baby, they have black hair and dark brown eyes, for the first time, they're adorable and down right perfect and you fall in love with them, at the end of the week and a half when you have to say good, you can't imagine anything more painful, but your mother and Horatio help you get through it. You'll be returning for them soon enough.

 

As soon as your family gets home, you start to set up a nursery for your little one. You get Gus involved with painting and helping to set it all up and the next thing you know its been another month and you and Horatio travel back to Ethiopia to go pick up your little one for good, to take home, and when you arrive, Horatio's whole family, your mother and Gus are there with all the food, gifts and babysitting offers you could ever want; of course what they're all eagerly awaiting is news your glad to give as you inform them of the names you've chosen for your newest addition, Juliette Horatia Pender, is welcomed joyfully into the Pender clan.

 

 

It has been two years since you welcomed your last child and things have been going well, you're currently in waiting for your next adoption from Columbia, which you settled the paper work on about six months ago. However, before that, you moved the family into a new home considering your growing family you knew you guys would need a little more space, thankfully Horatio got a promotion the previous year to - Head Biochemist - which has increased your house revenue by tenfold. Which helped, you ended up moving to a new house, it has 5 bedrooms and 4 1/2 baths with one bedroom converted into a playroom for the kids. You chose this house because it just gives you that overall 'homey' feel.

 

It's late at night and you're currently organizing some files for work and are surprised when the phone rings and you see its your case worker, Allegra, as she had already spoken to you earlier today to once more inform you that you were still on the waiting list to be matched up with a child, and it was looking like no movement would be coming soon at all. You pick up the phone to answer and ask your social worker why they're calling so late and she informs you she's got some interesting news and a proposal for you and Horatio it appears that the birth mother of Gus has fallen pregnant again which was a huge blow for her, she's in college and trying to make the most of her life. Once more she's looking to adopt out her baby, and she wanted to ask you and Horatio first since the baby would be Gus' half sibling and she knows it would go to a good home if you both raised the baby. You're stunned. You ask if you have time to think about the decision before giving an answer, you need to talk to Horatio and discuss it before you make any major decisions. Allegra says that's fine, but informs you the quicker the better in circumstances like this so Emma would be able to have more time to find a different family if you pick not to adopt her baby. You inform her you understand and end the conversation.

 

You finish your work and then a few hours later, Horatio comes home and they just want to go to bed, but you inform them you need to talk. You sit down in your living room with Horatio and inform them about the situation at hand, how Emma is pregnant again and would like your family to adopt the baby. At first Horatio is as shocked as you were, but they bring up how you both want a big family. You agree and bring up all the empty space in your new large home. You both decide to sleep on it and head to bed

 

The next morning as you're bringing your kids to school and pre-school for the day, you bring up the idea of if they might like a new brother or sister and they respond individually. Both seem to be nervous, and this make you feel nervous as well. You drop all the kids off and think about what your children said and head off to work, you have a pretty good day and your co-worker even brings in her new baby, and you coo over him, he's absolutely adorable and it makes your heart yearn for another child. Later that day, when you go home, you and Horatio seem to both agree, you'd like to adopt Emma's baby. You call back your social worker and tell her that you would like to adopt the baby and she is more than pleased to hear it and you start up the process for it once more, signing things, agreeing to pay for certain costs and such.

 

Only a few months later you speak with Emma to see how she is doing and how schooling is going for her, and its good, thankfully it seems her pregnancy will be in its latent months over the summer and it won't affect her school work, she also informs you that she's found out the baby's gender that day and the baby is a - girl. You're thrilled and quickly send off a text to Horatio to let them know before wishing birth mother well and heading off your lunch break to get back to work.

 

When you get home that day you surprise your mother with the news that she'll be a grandmother again and of course she's thrilled. Then you inform the children who still don't entirely all seem so sure, but when you explain that they can help you decorate the room. Juliette is very excited, but Gus seems a little more hesitant so you try and get them involved, but soon enough the nursery is done and looks fantastic. All your children now seem excited, especially Gus.

 

As the pregnancy progresses, its time to start thinking about names and you and Horatio talk back and forth having some trouble, but in the end you find some names you like and can agree on for the baby's first name, Athena, but have trouble finding a matching middle name, but decide to leave it be for now. It'll come to you later and its not worth fighting over with Horatio.

 

Of course, nothing can go as expected and on a hot, July afternoon, Emma goes into labor three weeks early and your baby arrives! They're 6 pounds and 2 ounces and 17 inches long. This time both you and Horatio were in the delivery room for the birth and it was magical, a little scary, but magical. Your children are in the waiting room with your mother and Horatio's parents, who're all very excited to meet their new family member, and so you bring out your blonde hair and hazel eyed bundle of joy and finally express their full name Athena Mary Pender. You decided to give them a middle name after Emma since she truly has given you such gifts in Gus and in your newest baby. As you seem swaddled in their blanket with your mother holding her and your other children watching them with wide, excited eyes you could not find yourself ever feeling this happy before and you're so grateful.
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Olivia with Ruby
Roman and Vivian with Eliza, Violet, Matilda, and Horatio
Eliza and Oscar with Josie, Natalie, Amelia, Georgia, and Isaiah

Violet and Jasper with Daisy, Lucy, Maisie, Zoe, and Gracie
Matilda and Sebastian with Milo, Sawyer, Fiona, Tess, and Quentin
Horatio and Ruby with Gus, Juliette, and Athena



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Posted 16 January 2016 - 01:04 PM

It has been two years since you welcomed your last child and things have been going well, you're currently in waiting for your next adoption from Haiti, which you settled the paper work on about six months ago. However, before that, you moved the family into a new home considering your growing family you knew you guys would need a little more space, thankfully Ophelia got a promotion the previous year to a tenure track position which has increased your house revenue a small amount.  Because of the help, you ended up moving to a new house, Option 5, a pretty modern house in a neighborhood with lots of parks.  There are many young families in the neighborhood too, so the kids will have friends nearby!

 

It's late at night and you're currently organizing some files for work and are surprised when the phone rings and you see its your case worker, Solveig, as she had already spoken to you earlier today to once more inform you that you were still on the waiting list to be matched up with a child, and it was looking like no movement would be coming soon at all. You pick up the phone to answer and ask your social worker why they're calling so late and she informs you she's got some interesting news and a proposal for you and Ophelia it appears that the birth mother of Hazel has fallen pregnant again which was a huge blow for her, she's in college and trying to make the most of her life. Once more she's looking to adopt out her baby, and she wanted to ask you and Ophelia first since the baby would be Hazel's half sibling and she knows it would go to a good home if you both raised the baby. You're stunned. You ask if you have time to think about the decision before giving an answer, you need to talk to Ophelia and discuss it before you make any major decisions.  Solveig says that's fine, but informs you the quicker the better in circumstances like this so Emma Sophia would be able to have more time to find a different family if you pick not to adopt her baby. You inform her you understand and end the conversation.

 

You finish your work and then a few hours later, Ophelia comes home and they just want to go to bed, but you inform them you need to talk. You sit down in your living room with Ophelia and inform them about the situation at hand, how Emma Sophia is pregnant again and would like your family to adopt the baby. At first Ophelia is as shocked as you were, but they bring up how you both want a big family. You agree and bring up all the empty space in your new large home. You both decide to sleep on it and head to bed

 

The next morning as you're bringing your kids to school and pre-school for the day, you bring up the idea of if they might like a new brother or sister and they respond individually. Luca and Elisha are both excited about the prospect, and Hazel is overjoyed, and this make you feel even more effervescent. You drop all the kids off and think about what your children said and head off to work, you have a pretty good day and your co-worker even brings in her new baby, and you coo over him, he's absolutely adorable and it makes your heart yearn for another child. Later that day, when you go home, you and Ophelia seem to both agree, you'd like to adopt Emma Sophia's baby. You call back your social worker and tell her that you would like to adopt the baby and she is more than pleased to hear it and you start up the process for it once more, signing things, agreeing to pay for certain costs and such.

 

Only a few months later you speak with Emma Sophia to see how she is doing and how schooling is going for her, and its good, thankfully it seems her pregnancy will be in its latent months over the summer and it won't affect her school work, she also informs you that she's found out the baby's gender that day and the baby is a boy. You're thrilled and quickly send off a text to Ophelia to let them know before wishing birth mother well and heading off your lunch break to get back to work.

 

When you get home that day you surprise your mother with the news that she'll be a grandmother again and of course she's thrilled. Then you inform the children who still don't entirely all seem so sure, but when you explain that they can help you decorate the room. Axel and Luca are very excited, but Hazel seems a little more hesitant so you try and get them involved, but soon enough the nursery is done and looks fantastic. All your children now seem excited, especially Hazel.

 

As the pregnancy progresses, its time to start thinking about names and you and Ophelia talk back and forth having some trouble, but in the end you find some names you like and can agree on for the baby's first name, Evander, but have trouble finding a matching middle name, but decide to leave it be for now. It'll come to you later and its not worth fighting over with Ophelia.

 

Of course, nothing can go as expected and on a hot, July afternoon, Emma Sophia goes into labor three weeks early and your baby arrives! They're 6 pounds and 2 ounces and 17 inches long. This time both you and Ophelia were in the delivery room for the birth and it was magical, a little scary, but magical. Your children are in the waiting room with your mother and Ophelia's parents, who're all very excited to meet their new family member, and so you bring out your black hair and blue-eyed bundle of joy and finally express their full name, Evander Emmett Seeske. You decided to give them a middle name after Emma Sophia since she truly has given you such gifts in Ophelia and in your newest baby. As you seem swaddled in their blanket with your mother holding him and your other children watching them with wide, excited eyes you could not find yourself ever feeling this happy before and you're so grateful.

 

 

 

 

Seeske Family:

DW: Anwen Elspeth

DW: Ophelia Violet

 

DD: Hazel Amity

DS/DS: Axel Yorick/Luca Elisha

DS: Evander Emmett

 

 

Seelen Family:

DH: Caleb Ezekiel

DW: Harriet Sylvia

 

DD: Evangeline Cora

DD/DS: Clementine Edith/Amos Judah

DD: Cecilia Beatrice

DD: Amity Flora

DD: Matilda Mae

DS/DD/DS: Jasper Atticus/Cordelia Maude/Felix Josiah

DD: Ophelia Violet

 

 

The Wexler Family

 

DW: Evangeline Cora Wexler

DH: Silas Otto Wexler

 

DS: Ezra Lucas Wexler

DD: Susannah Charlotte Wexler

DS: Levi Colin Wexler

DS: Jonah Aidan Wexler

DD: Eve Juliana Wexler

 

 

The Seelen-Mendoza Family

 

DW: Clementine Edith Seelen-Mendoza

DH: August Frederick Seelen-Mendoza

 

DD: Rose Gemma Seelen-Mendoza

DS/DS: Forrest Hugh Seelen-Mendoza/Walker Isaiah Seelen-Mendoza

 

 

The Seelen Family

DH: Amos Judah Seelen

DW: Lydia Cora Sarkozi

 

DS:Owen Elias Seelen

DS/DS: Liam Isaac Seelen/Milo Jonas Seelen

DD: Alice Maya Seelen

DD: Fiona Lucy Seelen

DS: Finn Asher Seelen

 

The Lennox Family

DW: Cecilia Beatrice Lennox

DH: Phineas Walter Lennox

 

DS: Orson Reed Lennox

DD: Audrey Margaret Lennox

DD: Carolina Paige Lennox

DS/DS: Simon Jack Lennox/Julian Spencer Lennox

DD: Francesca Madeleine Lennox

DD: Eleanor Kate Lennox

DS: Alistair Eli Lennox

DD:Miranda Eva Lennox

 

 

The Matos Family

DW: Amity Flora Seelen

DH: Arthur Montgomery Matos

 

DD: Felicity Anna Matos

DS: Harrison Quinn Matos

DD: Willa Sophia Matos

DS: Henry Patrick Matos

DD: Arden Hope Matos

DS/DS/DS: Sawyer Luke Matos/Leo Nathan Matos/Noah Sebastian Matos

 

The Panlen Family

DW: Matilda Mae Seelen

DH: Emmett Oscar Pandev

 

DD/DD: Nora Eliza Panlen/Juliet Isabel Panlen

DD: Olivia Tess Panlen

DS: Miles Theo Panlen

DS: Elijah Lewis Panlen

 

The Seelen Family

DH: Jasper Atticus Seelen

DW: Iris Louisa Baumgartner

 

DS: Oliver Hugh Seelen

DS: Graham Anderson Seelen

DD: Josephine India Seelen

DS/DS: Dominic Christian Seelen/Cole Duncan Seelen

DD: Helena Amelia Seelen

 

The Bowen Family

DW: Cordelia Maude Bowen

DH: Asa Lionel Bowen

 

DD/DD: Clara Dorothea Bowen/Caroline Julia Bowen

DS: Andrew Tobias Bowen

DD: Celia Daisy Bowen

 

The Seelen Family

 

DH: Felix Josiah Seelen

DW: Pearl Eloise Mueller

 

DD:Ella Grace Seelen

DS: Caleb Quentin Seelen

DS/DS: Nathaniel Gregory/Gabriel Nicholas

 

 

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Your name is Anwen Elspeth Raske, you have red hair and blue eyes and you're 20 years old. You're a student at Princeton University and you're pursuing a major in Biology. Ever since you've come to college, you've always been focused on your studies, you've worked very hard to get into Princeton and need to maintain a certain GPA to continue getting your scholarship money to enable you to continue.

 

However, today is the last of your day second year of undergrad and you've just taken your final exam, you're thrilled, and feel like you've passed all your classes with flying colors and you could not be more ecstatic. All you want to do now is sleep, maybe watch some netflix, but your roommate, Leslie Peyton Iverson,  insists you accompany her to the party to make sure she gets home safe since she plans on drinking. You loathe the idea, but she did help you out studying for your final in English. So, you accompany her to the party and watch her have a good time and hang out on the outskirts of the party.

 

Suddenly, a girl comes up to you. You dismiss her at first, but he has a witty t-shirt about the nature of time which kind of catches your interest. She's got brown hair and hazel eyes and introduces themselves as Ophelia Violet Seelen, they're 19 years old. You start talking to Ophelia and find out about them, they're apparently legacies of the university, went to prep schools their whole life, have traveled the world with their bourgeois family and while that would usually make you feel a bit of a chip on your shoulder, for some reason, it doesn't with Ophelia. You find them charming. You also find out that Ophelia is majoring in Philosophy and the way they speak about their major so passionately entices you. You talk for hours before your roommate stumbles over. Realizing you need to get her home, but not wanting the conversation with Ophelia to end so you exchange numbers and promise to call them later. You leave with your roommate and head back to your dorm, feeling much happier than when you arrived at the party.

 

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It's been ten years since the night of the party and you honestly cannot help but to look back fondly on it. It's the first night you met Ophelia, who has now become your wife.  You've both graduated from not only your undergrad programs, but from your respective graduate programs and are each working in your dream jobs - Biological Engineering instrument development and assistant professor researching Nietsche.  You and Ophelia could not be happier right now. However, there does seem to be something missing. The pitter-patter of little feet. So, you and Ophelia decide to start trying for a family, you spend three years trying and failing to get pregnant with the help of donor sperm, but nothing happens. No pregnancy.

 

You see a fertility doctor who unfortunately informs you that between the two of you there is a previously undiagnosed case of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Endometriosis between you. The chance of you two having a biological child together is next to near impossible. The first thought of it stuns you both, you go home with that knowledge and both discuss some options, but you mostly grieve your loss. Both you and Ophelia have always wanted a big family, you as an only child and then Ophelia comes from a big family with a slew of brothers and sisters.
 

It takes you five months to finally broach the subject of what you two want to do next, stay childless or look into adoption. It's an easy discussion between us and we decide we want to look into adoption. The first thing we decide is we want to look into both international adoption and into domestic adoption. It takes us some time to find an agency to work with and then to get our home looked into and approved for viability. It's a longer process then expected, but a year later you've been set up by the agency and made an adoption book and just hoped that you would be matched with someone; then one day you were.

 

Your case worker informs you that you've been chosen by a young teen, Emma Sophia Capella, who has fallen pregnant. She wants the adoption to be closed. While you feel sorry for the girl, an excitement does well inside of your chest. You and Ophelia want this, you want to be parents. You meet with Emma Sophia and she comes to your house. You all talk and in the end, you sign the papers. You agree to help pay for the cost of her pregnancy from now on, from making sure her medical bills are paid, new maternity clothes are purchased and help her with getting good healthy food. Other than that there is minimal contact which works well for all parties. 

 

We find out at the six month mark that Emma Sophia is expecting a girl. Either sex would have been okay, but you and Ophelia are just so thrilled. The first thing you both do is go to half a dozen baby stores and purchase all the things you have always wanted to buy. You spend hours after, well into the night and wee hours of the morning setting up a nursery. It looks so beautiful and you honestly cry. You never thought that first night after seeing the infertility doctor you would ever get to set up a nursery.  There ends up being a nautical theme, although the favorite piece is the rocking chair 3.

 

The rest of the pregnancy goes by so fast, I work through the whole situation by working extra hours and then well, it happens.  Emma Sophia goes into labor. It's a quick one and we're there the whole time in the waiting room. Your little one is born perfect with black hair and blue eyes weighing in at 7 pounds and 9 ounces and 23 inches long.  Emma Sophia signs away her rights without ever seeing her. You feel incredible when you look down and just know Hazel Amity Seeske is coming home with you. Where they belong and you and Ophelia feel such joy as you strap them into their car seat to take Hazel home.

 

It has been a year since you welcomed Hazel into your family and both you and Ophelia love being parents, while at times its very hard considering you both work demanding jobs and with you having been promoted up a position to the Head of Medical Instrument Development in your company, but thanks to help from your mother, Helen Irene Raske, you know Hazel is always in good hands even if you and Ophelia are busy with work.

 

However, later that week you, Ophelia and Hazel attend her family's yearly reunion. You're staying with her parents, Harriet Sylvia and Ezekiel Jude Seelen while you do so. You love hanging out with all of her siblings, Evangeline, Clementine, Amos, Cecilia, Amity, Matilda, Jasper, Cordelia, and Felix, their spouses, and all your nieces and nephews, as Ophelia is the youngest child in his/her family. They're always talking to you guys ans giving advice about child rearing, relationships, etc and while irksome at times you know it all comes from a good and loving place. Later, when speaking to Amity, they ask you if you plan to have anymore kids or if you guys just plan to have Hazel. You offhandedly comment that you would like more kids, but are unsure when you and Ophelia intend to look into further adoption and go back to talking about other things, but the thought does seem to stay with you a bit.

 

The night after the reunion and after coming home from work and putting Hazel to bed, you and Ophelia are reading in bed when Ophelia brings back up the fact that you both still would like to adopt internationally and that that can take quite a bit of time. You agree with Ophelia having known other people in the adoption community in online support groups who have waited years, you know you just got very lucky with Hazel.  You both agree to go to bed and place a call with your case worker and agency tomorrow about paper work considering the likely occurrence of a two to four year wait to be matched up with a child.

 

The next day on your lunch break you place a call to your agent, Solveig Marisol Schmidt,and she agrees it would be good to start working through the papers since it could take some time. Solveig explains which countries they have current associations with and informs you that you and Ophelia need to pick one to start the process. We chit chat a little more about how Hazel is doing before hanging up and heading back to work that day, extremely excited.

 

That night you ask Ophelia's oldest sibling and their spouse - Evangeline and [blank] - to watch Hazel so you and Ophelia can decide on which country you want to adopt from. After leaving Hazel you go out and have a nice dinner together for the first time in awhile and savor it, making some small work talk before hitting to harder subjects. You discuss some of the places that intrigue you both, you make it down to your top three locations, Korea, Ukraine and Turkey, eventually you end up deciding on Ukraine because you know that there are lots of orphaned refugee children.

 

Later that night you and Ophelia send an email off to your agent to get the ball rolling on the process. The next day you pick up Hazel from Ophelia's sibling and feel refreshed and excited about your decision. Over the next couple of months, both you and Ophelia  work through the paper work, have your home visits and then hit the dry spell you knew would hit, but you fill it with exciting things including your first family vacation with Hazel.

 

It takes some time for you to decide, but you end up picking the Bahamas. You and Ophelia pick a less crowded week to take off, not around traditional holidays and then spend said week with your family making memories and taking a ton of photos. Hazel loved getting to see the fish and tide pools!

 

Sadly, even after that you still haven't heard much back from your agent other then she's still looking to match you and Ophelia with a child. You try not to feel disheartened by the time frame and continue to enjoy life as it is now. You get into a routine again with Ophelia and Hazel, and your monthly discussions with your case worker to check in until it's been about a year and a half since you put in the paper work and Hazel is just a month away from turning three! You can't believe how big she's gotten.

 

While shopping for themed thing for Hazel's party, they're having a super hero theme, you get a call from your agent. They've found a match! You ask agent if you can call them back in a minute as your out and not at a computer to receive the file and they agree. You rush through check out and quickly call Ophelia telling them they need to get home; you've been matched! You throw everything into the car and drive home and thankfully Ophelia is there as well and you call back your agent who informs you that you've been matched with twin boys who are  two years old, and you couldn't be more thrilled. You speak with her for another hour before she sends the file and you open it up, look through pictures and feel your heart melt. You and Ophelia browse through it a little more before leaving to go pick up Hazel from a day with Ophelia's parents.

 

You get home and Ophelia makes dinner and you bring up having a younger sibling to Hazel and they seem excited by the idea which eases some of your tension and you call back your agent and talk through the process, you set up to go do a first visit in two months when you'll be off for Christmas break from work. You, Ophelia, your mother and Hazel fly off to Ukraine and meet your precious babies, they have brown hair and brown eyes, they're adorable and downright perfect and you fall in love with them, at the end of the week and a half when you have to say good, you can't imagine anything more painful, but your mother and Ophelia help you get through it. You'll be returning for them soon enough.

 

As soon as your family gets home, you start to set up a nursery for your little ones. You get Hazel involved with painting and helping to set it all up and the next thing you know its been another month and you and Ophelia travel back to Ukraine to go pick up your little ones for good, to take home, and when you arrive, Ophelia's whole family, your mother and Hazel are there with all the food, gifts and babysitting offers you could ever want; of course what they're all eagerly awaiting is news your glad to give as you inform them of the names you've chosen for your newest additions, Axel Yorick and Luca Elisha, are welcomed joyfully into the Seeske clan.



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Posted 31 January 2016 - 10:18 AM

My name is Flora Lorna Larsen, I have Brown Hair and Brown Eyes and I'm twenty-one years old. I'm a student at Fordham University and you're pursuing a major in Political Science. Ever since I came to college, I've always been focused on my studies, I've worked very hard to get into Fordham and need to maintain a certain GPA to continue getting my scholarship money to enable me to continue, the second being I need to be able to get scholarships to go on and further my education.

 

However, today is the last day of my junior year of undergrad and I've just taken my final exam, I'm thrilled, and feel like I've passed all my classes with flying colors and I could not be more ecstatic. All I want to do now is sleep, maybe watch some netflix, but my roommate, James Lincoln Avery,  insists I accompany her to the party to make sure she gets home safe since she plans on drinking. I loathe the idea, but she did help me out studying for my final in The Anthropology of Food. So, I accompany her to the party and watch her have a good time and hang out on the outskirts of the party.

 

Suddenly, a guy comes up to me. I dismiss him at first, but he made a comment about my favorite band, Maroon 5, which kind of catches my interest. He's got Black Hair and Brown Eyes and introduces themselves as Dashiell Dudley Verhoeven, they're eighteen years old. I start talking to Dashiell and find out about him, he is apparently a legacy of the university, went to prep schools his whole life, has traveled the world with his bourgeois family and while that would usually make me feel a bit of a chip on my shoulder, for some reason, it doesn't with Dash, for some reason. I find him charming. I also find out that Dashiell is majoring in Philosophy and the way Dashspeak about his major so passionately it entices me. We talk for hours before James stumbles over. Realizing I need to get her home, but not wanting the conversation with Dashiell  to end, so we exchange numbers and I promise to call him later. I leave with James and head back to my dorm, feeling much happier than when I'd arrived at the party.

 

I met my husband ten years ago at that silly college party, and as much as I disliked the party scene in college, I can't help but look back on that night fondly.  Ever since that night, Dash and I started dating.  We graduated from Fordham, and Dash ended up working for his family's company while I went right into Law School at Columbia - Since we were both in New York, we continued to date throughout our 20's.  Eventually, Dash completed his internship with his family, and attended graduate school at Yale University, where he got his PHD in Philosophy and finished off a degree in pedagogy.  We had to commute from NYC to New Haven  to see each other, but it was worth it.  I eventually graduated from Columbia and moved to New Haven to be with Dashiell.  Once I completed my bar exam and passed it with New York, D.C, Connecticut, Florida and New Jersey under my belt, I became an Attorney at a practice about ten miles away from Dash's and my apartment.  Dash graduated and got a job as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy Departments at Yale University and Wesleyan at the undergraduate levels.

 

Once we settled into our careers, we got married.  It was a small ceremony held at a quaint chapel outside New Haven in the winter.  Dashiell and I decided to honeymoon in a few places over the course of three weeks during the winter break of college - Nice, France; Santorini, Greece and Tokyo, Japan. We used the lump sum of money that Dashiell's parents had gifted us for the wedding invested the money we saved into buying a four-bedroom house together, since we planned on having kids soon after getting married.

 

Dashiell and I started trying to conceive soon after getting married, but a year passed, and we still had no luck getting pregnant.  We visited a fertility doctor, who reported that Dashiell had a low sperm count, and I had an undiagnosed case of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, making it nearly impossible for us to have a biological child together.  Dashiell and I were stunned and devastated.  We spent a few months going over the facts and trying to think of a solution.  As an only child, I wanted my kids to have many siblings that they could count on, since Dashiell has a load of siblings and loves being a part of a big family.

 

Six months after the news, Dashiell and I made the decision to visit an adoption agency.  We were matched with a birth mother, Ashley Emma-Mary Mars,  who lived in rural Pennsylvania.  She was 16 and had gotten pregnant accidentally.  We met with her a few times and agreed to pay for her medical bills.  The adoption agency informed us a few months into the pregnancy that we would be the parents of a little girl. Dash and I had agreed that we would be fine with either gender, but we were both so excited to have a daughter.

 

Dashiell and I spent the next few months converting one of our spare bedrooms into a nursery for our daughter.  Finally, the day of delivery arrived. Ashley went into labor, and we waited for hours at the hospital until finally we received news that she had been born.  Our daughter weighed seven pounds and nine ounces and was twenty-three inches long.  She had Blonde Hair and Green eyes.  Ashley signed away her rights without ever meeting her.  We took her home the next day and named her Poppy Genevieve Verhoeven.

 

My mother, Helen Jane Larsen (née Aske), moved to New Haven shortly after Poppy was born to help us raise her, since Dash and I had such demanding jobs.  Juggling motherhood and being promoted to senior partner at my law firm was challenging, but Poppy's smile motivated us through the challenges we faced as new parents.

 

Around Poppy's first birthday, Dashiell, Poppy, and I flew to Westchester, NY for the annual Verhoeven family reunion.  We stayed at Dashiell's childhood house where his parents, Genevieve Rosamund (née Montgomery) and Archibald Josiah Verhoeven, still live. Dashiell is the youngest of five kids.  The eldest Verhoeven child is Josiah Amos Verhoeven, who is 40.  He graduated from Princeton with a degree in economics and is now an economics professor at Cornell.  He is married to Elsie Clementine Verhoeven (née Hapstall), a stay-at-home mother, and they have eight kids: Jonas Philip (14), Celia Gabriella (14), Sophia Mabel (11), Ella Beatrice (9), Anna Grace (8), Graham Forrest (5), Hugh Christian (3) and Harrison Clay (3).

 

The second Verhoeven child is Clarissa Matilda Waldorf (née Verhoeven), who is 38.  She graduated from Stanford University with a degree in mathematics and now works for Google in Silicon Valley, CA.  Her husband's name is Otto Lionel Waldorf .  He is a plastic surgeon. Clarissa and Otto have three kids: Henry Miles (7), Chloe Eloise (5) and Elias Jack (2)

 

The third Verhoeven child is Humphrey Barnabas Verhoeven.  He is 35 and is married to Louise Isa Verhoeven (née Billings).  Humphrey and Lulu have three children: Julian Oscar (10), Barnaby Cole (4), and Daisy Faith (0).  Humphrey went to Georgetown where he majored in biology and was on a pre-med track.  He is now a Cardiologist and lives with Lulu, a stock analyst, in New York City, New York.

 

The fourth Verhoeven child is Evangeline Cecily Bancroft (née Verhoeven; formerly Carrington), age 34.  She has been married twice, the first time to Harry Walter Carrington, with whom she had her daughter, Sasha Zoe Carrington (12).  Sasha spends half her time living  in London, England, with Harry, but Sasha still comes to the family reunions to see her mother's side of the family.  Evangeline's wife is Florence Lavinia Bancroft.  They have three children: Florence's daughter - Kitty Rose (15), then twins who are biologically Evangeline's children with a sperm donation from Florence's brother -  George Levi (1), and Frederick Lucas (1). Evangeline met Florence when they both attended the University of Pennsylvania. Evangeline majored in business and is now the CEO of a pharmaceutical company based in New York City, New York.  She met Florence  through work (she is the public relations executive for the same company).

 

With around thirty people at the reunion, there were plenty of people to talk to, and it was fun watching all the kids play together.  Dashiell  and I fondly imagined Poppy  joining in the fun and games when she's old enough.  I received plenty of child-rearing advice from all of Dash's siblings and their spouses, not to mention my in-laws, which was irksome at times, but I knew their intentions were kind and sincere.  One evening, Josiah asked me if Dashiell and I planned on having more children, or if we were just having Poppy.  I told him that we would be interested in adopting again, but that we didn't have any concrete plans to adopt any time soon.  Dashiell didn't ask anything else, but his question stuck with me for the rest of the week.

 

Dashiell, Poppy, and I finally returned home.  After putting Puppy to bed one night, Dash brought up the idea of international adoption, which we had considered before adopting Poppy.  We agreed that since it can be a two to four year process, we should put in a request at the adoption agency now.  The next day, I called our agent, Talitha Ziva Johnson, who told me the countries they were currently in contact with.  We talked about Poppy, and she said that she would update us if any matches were found.  I hung up the phone feeling giddy about the prospect of having another child.

 

That weekend, Dashiell and I left Poppy at home with my mother so that we could go out to dinner.  We hadn't had a real date night since Poppy was born, so it was a refreshing evening for both of us.  We talked about what countries we wanted to adopt from, deciding that Korea, Norway, and Haiti were our top choices.  We eventually decided that Norway was our first choice of country, since Dashiell had recently been doing research in Scandinavian philosophy and found it to be an every day discussion topic in our home.  We thought it was an appropriate homage to Dash's work, so we called Talitha the next day and told her that we were interested in adopting a child from Norway.

 

For the next few months, we had our home inspected and filled out countless forms.  During the summer, we decided to take a weekend trip to Sesame Place in Langhorne, PA. Poppy loved meeting all of the Sesame Street characters, since Sesame Street was her favorite show.

 

The months pass, and we keep in touch with Talitha, who informs us that there are no suitable matches for us yet.  Although we are disappointed by this, we get into a happy and stable routine with Poppy and rely on my mom's help less and less.  For her third birthday, Dash and I decided to throw a party for our daughter.  She asked for a Superhero themed party, since she adores superheroes especially Batman and Captain America.  While shopping for party supplies, I received a call from Talitha who told me that there was a match for us!  I rushed home and called Dashiell, who hurried home as well.  We received a file from Talitha with pictures of newborn boy/girl twins from Bergen, Norway.  We fell in love with them immediately.

 

Poppy was excited about the news of having a little brother and sister.  The day after her birthday party, Dashiell and I dropped her off at my in-law's house and caught a flight to Oslo and then drove to Bergen where we had five days to spend with our future son and daughter.  We loved every minute that we spent with them and knew that they was the perfect match for our family.  He had Blonde Hair and Blue Eyes and She had Blonde Hair and Bluel Eyes  as well. We were sad to part with them, but we gave them  kisses goodbye and told them that we would see them soon.  

 

Dashiell and I decorated our second spare bedroom, creating a beautiful nursery for our twins.  Finally, another month passed, and we left Poppy with Humphrey, Louise and their kids while we flew to Norway again, this time to bring our little darlings home for good.  We named them Wesley "Wes" Larsen Verhoeen and Serena Daphne Verhoeven.

 

 

It has been two years since we welcomed Wes and Serena into our family and things have been going well, we're currently in waiting for our next adoption from South Korea, which we settled the paper work on about six months ago. However, before that, we moved the family into a new home considering our growing family we knew we would need a little more space, thankfully Dashiell  got a promotion the previous year to - Full-time Professor of Philosophy at Yale University - which has increased our house revenue by tenfold. Which helped, we ended up moving to a new house, which is stunning - It's in a really lovely neighborhood full of families, it's about a half hour commute from where I work and two hours from Yale University making the commute not bad, it's got about seven bedrooms, so we set up two guest bedrooms, we made one room into a luxury master for ourselves, Poppy requested a beautiful princess room, a toon themed bedroom for Wes, a pink textile themed room for Serena, then we left one room empty to be made up when we hear back from the adoption agency - the house also has, a built in playroom for the kids, a luxury kitchen and we designed a lofting library room. It's a perfect home for us all.

 

It's late at night and I'm currently organizing some files for work and are surprised when the phone rings and I see its our case worker, Talitha, as she had already spoken to you earlier today to once more inform us that we were still on the waiting list to be matched up with a child, and it was looking like no movement would be coming soon at all. I pick up the phone to answer and ask Talitha why she's calling so late and she informs me she's got some interesting news and a proposal for Dash and I and it appears that the birth mother of Poppy has fallen pregnant again which was a huge blow for her, she's in college and trying to make the most of her life. Once more she's looking to adopt out her baby, and she wanted to ask Dashiell and I first since the baby would be Poppy's half sibling and she knows it would go to a good home if we both raised the baby. I'm stunned. I ask if I have time to think about the decision before giving an answer, I need to talk to Dash and discuss it before we make any major decisions. Talitha says that's fine, but informs me the quicker the better in circumstances like this so Ashley would be able to have more time to find a different family if we pick not to adopt her baby. I inform Talitha that I understand and end the conversation.

 

I finish my work and then a few hours later, Dashiell comes home and he just wants to go to bed, but I inform him and I need to talk. I sit down in our living room with Dashiell and inform him about the situation at hand, how Ashley is pregnant again and would like our family to adopt the baby. At first Dash  is as shocked as I was, but he brings up how we both want a big family. I  agree and bring up all the empty space in our new large home. We both decide to sleep on it and head to bed

 

The next morning as we're bringing our kids to school and pre-school for the day, I bring up the idea of if they might like a new brother or sister and they respond individually. Wes and Serena don't seem to care too much about it, but Poppy is extremely excited about being a big sister again, and this make me feel pretty good, glad there are no negative feelings. I drop all the kids off and think about what my children said and head off to work, I have a pretty good day and my co-worker, Annaliese Natalia Leating, even brings in her new baby - Christophe, and I coo over him, he's absolutely adorable and it makes my heart yearn for another child. Later that day, when I go home, Dashiell and I seem to both agree, we'd like to adopt Ashley's baby. We call back our social worker and tell her that we would like to adopt the baby and she is more than pleased to hear it and we start up the process for it once more, signing things, agreeing to pay for certain costs and such.

 

Only a few months later I speak with Ashley to see how she is doing and how schooling is going for her, and its good, thankfully it seems her pregnancy will be in its latent months over the summer and it won't affect her school work, she also informs me that she's found out the baby's gender that day and the baby is a - A Boy. I'm thrilled and quickly send off a text to Dashiell to let him know before wishing Ashley well and heading off my lunch break to get back to work.

 

When I get home that day I surprise my mother, Helen, with the news that she'll be a grandmother again and of course she's thrilled. Then I inform the children who still don't entirely all seem so sure, but when I explain that they can help me decorate the room we had previously left bare. Wes and Serena are very excited, but oddly Poppy now seems a little more hesitant so I try and get her involved, but soon enough the nursery is done and looks fantastic. Poppy, Wes and Serena now seem excited, especially Poppy.

 

As the pregnancy progresses, its time to start thinking about names and Dashiell and I talk back and forth having some trouble, but in the end we find some names we like and can agree on for the baby's first name, Elliot, but have trouble finding a matching middle name, but decide to leave it be for now. It'll come to us later and its not worth fighting over with Dash.

 

Of course, nothing can go as expected and on a hot, July afternoon, Ashley goes into labor three weeks early and our baby arrives! He's 6 pounds and 2 ounces and 17 inches long. This time both Dashiell and I were in the delivery room for the birth and it was magical, a little scary, but magical. Our children are in the waiting room with my mother, Helen, and Dash's parents - Genevieve and Archiband, We're all very excited to meet their new family member, and so I bring out our Black Haired and Hazel Eyed bundle of joy and finally express their full name - Elliot Asher Verhoeven. We decided to give him a middle name after Ashley since she truly has given us such gifts in Poppy and Elliot. As I see Elliot  swaddled in his blanket with my mother holding him while Poppy, Wes and Serena watch them with wide, excited eyes I could not find myself ever feeling this happy before and I'm so grateful.

 

The Verhoeven Family

 

DW: Flora Lorna Verhoeven (nee Larsen) [37] [Brown Hair & Brown Eyes] [Attorney]

DH: Dashiell Dudley Verhoeven [34] [Black Hair & Brown Eyes] [Philosophy Professor]

 

DAD1: Poppy Genevieve Verhoeven [5] [Blonde Hair & Green Eyes]

(Adopted Domestically; birth mother: Ashley Mars)

DAS1: Wesley "Wes" Larsen Verhoeven [2] [Blonde Hair & Blue Eyes]

(Adopted from Norway; twin brother of Serena)

DAD2: Serena Daphne Verhoeven [2] [Blonde Hair & Blue Eyes]

(Adopted from Norway; twin sister of Wes)

DAS2: Elliot Asher Verhoeven [0] [Black Hair & Hazel Eyes]

(Adopted Domestically; birth mother: Ashley Mars)

 

Flora and Dashiell Verhoeven; with Poppy, Wes, Serena & Elliot

 



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Posted 09 March 2016 - 01:30 PM

My name is Poppy Esme Rowena Storstrand, I have Brown Hair and Brown Eyes and I'm twenty years old. I'm a student at Brown University and you're pursuing a major in History. Ever since I came to college, I've always been focused on my studies, I've worked very hard to get into Brown and need to maintain a certain GPA to continue getting my scholarship money to enable me to continue, the second being I need to be able to get scholarships to go on and further my education.

 

However, today is the last day of my junior year of undergrad and I've just taken my final exam, I'm thrilled, and feel like I've passed all my classes with flying colors and I could not be more ecstatic. All I want to do now is sleep, maybe watch some netflix, but my roommate, Casey Sawyer Dylan,  insists I accompany her to the party to make sure she gets home safe since she plans on drinking. I loathe the idea, but she did help me out studying for my final in Logic. So, I accompany her to the party and watch her have a good time and hang out on the outskirts of the party.

 

Suddenly, a girl comes up to me. I dismiss her at first, but she made a funny joke about Trump's campaign, which kind of catches my interest. She's got Brown Hair and Hazel Eyes and introduces themselves as Cornelia Genevieve Vervloet, they're nineteen years old. I start talking to Cornelia and find out about her, she is apparently a legacy of the university, went to prep schools her whole life, has traveled the world with her bourgeois family and while that would usually make me feel a bit of a chip on my shoulder, for some reason, it doesn't with Cornelia, for some reason. I find her  charming. I also find out that Cornelia is majoring in Political Science and the way Cornelia speak about her major so passionately it entices me. We talk for hours before Casey  stumbles over. Realizing I need to get her home, but not wanting the conversation with Cornelia  to end, so we exchange numbers and I promise to call her later. I leave with Casey and head back to my dorm, feeling much happier than when I'd arrived at the party.

 

 

I met my wife ten years ago at that silly college party, and as much as I disliked the party scene in college, I can't help but look back on that night fondly.  Ever since that night, Cornelia and I started dating.  We graduated from Brown, and Cornelia ends up deciding to attend Law School at Columbia while I attended NYU to do a PHD program in History and in pedagogy, of course we moved to NYC together and shared an apartment in the Upper East Side that belonged to Cornelia'a family, we enjoyed being young and in our twenties together, living the good life in love and it was honestly magical. By the end of it all, Cornelia graduated law school and got a position as an entry level Lawyer at Barden, Vervloet & Associates while I started working at Barnard College, Fordham University and St. Johns's University as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History.

 

Once we settled into our careers, we got married.  It was actually quite the large affair, mostly on Cornelia's side. I had a few childhood friends and college friends, my mother and then co-workers, but Cornelia well, she had her parents, siblings, the in-laws on all sides, her friends, all the girls from her old private high school, family friends and then her work colleagues.  We rented out a huge hotel with a large ballroom, it was catered by a celebrity chef and pastry chef, we had the the ceremony inside on a breezy, fall day. It was honestly a wonderful event even though I can only remember some of the people I had met. There were hundreds. Cornelia decided to take my last name as Afterwards, Cornelia and I decided to honeymoon in a few places over the course of three weeks during the winter break of college - Kauai, Hawaii; Reykjavik, Iceland and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. After our fun was said and done we used the lump sum of money that Cornelia's parents had gifted us for the wedding into buying a five-bedroom house together in Westchester County since we planned on having kids soon after getting married. However, there does seem to be something missing. The pitter-patter of little feet. So, Cornelia and I decide to start trying for a family, we spend two years trying and failing to get pregnant with the help of donor sperm, but nothing happens. No pregnancy.

 

 We visited a fertility doctor, who reported that a previously undiagnosed case of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in myself and Endometriosis in Cornelia. Cornelia and I were stunned and devastated.  We spent a few months going over the facts and trying to think of a solution.  As an only child, I wanted my kids to have many siblings that they could count on, since Cornelia has a load of siblings and loves being a part of a big family.

 

Four months after the news, Cornelia and I made the decision to visit an adoption agency.  It took a few visits, making a book about our lives, but not too long after we were matched with a birth mother, Jennifer Emily Altair,  who lived in rural South Dakota.  She was 16 and had gotten pregnant accidentally.  We met with her a few times and agreed to pay for her medical bills, some bills related to pregnancy such as birthing classes and maternity wear.  The adoption agency informed us a few months into the pregnancy that we would be the parents of a little boy. Cornelia and I had agreed that we would be fine with either gender, but we were both so excited to have a son.

 

Cornelia and I spent the next few months converting one of our spare bedrooms into a nursery for our son.  Finally, the day of delivery arrived. Jennifer went into labor, and we waited for hours at the hospital until finally we received news that he had been born.  Our son weighed seven pounds and nine ounces and was twenty-three inches long.  He had Blonde Hair and Brown Eyes. Jennifer signed away her rights without ever meeting him.  We took him home the next day and named him Stellan Tobias Judah Storstrand since he's our little star.

 

My mother, Barbra Margaret Storstrand, moved to Long Island from Sun Valley, Idaho shortly after Stellan was born to help us raise him, since Cornelia and I had such demanding jobs.  Juggling motherhood and being promoted to a full time professor at Barnard College was challenging, but Stellan's smile motivated us through the challenges we faced as new parents.

 

Around Stellan's first birthday, Cornelia, Stellan, and I flew to Darien, Connecticut  for the annual Vervloet family reunion. We stayed at Cornelia's childhood house where her parents, Eleanor Katherine (née Kennedy) and Byron Nathaniel Vervloet, still live. Cornelia is the youngest of four kids.  The eldest Verhoeven child is Judah Chester Vervloet, who is 43.  He graduated from Yale with a degree in Biochemistry, then went to Harvard Medical school and is a Pediatric Surgeon. Judah and his family reside in Darien, Connnecticut on the same block as Eleanor and Byron. Judah is married to Eloise Josephine Vervloet (née Mars), a stay-at-home mother, and they have five kids: Andrew Jonah (15), Beatrice Eleanor (12), Christian Jonas (9), Daisy Eliza (7) and Ella Josephine (6).

 

The second Vervloet child is Cecelia Beatrice Hearst (née Vervloet), who is 39.  She graduated from Yale University with a degree in Business and now works for Hearst, Walton and Cohen LLC in Manhattan, but they live in Manhasset, NY.  Her husband's name is Arthur August Hearst . He is an attorney at the LLC company where his own father is a head partner. Cecelia and Arthur have six kids: Frederick Nathaniel (13), George Nathan (10), Charlotte Eleanor (10), Margaret Frances (7), Susannah Helen (4) and Alice Francesca (4)

 

The third Vervloet child is Tobias Humphrey Vervloet.  He is 36 and is married to Hazel Violet Vervloet (née Koch).  Tobias ans Hazel have five children: Tobias "Toby" Hayden (11), Nathaniel Barnaby (8), Reed Walker (5), Arabella Sloane (3) and Violet Eleanor (0).  Tobias went to Stanford where he majored in Biochemistry and Neurosciences. He is now a Neurosurgeon and works at Mount Sinai Hospital while Hazel is a stay-at-home mother, the family now resides in New York City, New York.

 

With around thirty people at the reunion, there were plenty of people to talk to, and it was fun watching all the kids play together. Cornelia and I fondly imagined Stellan joining in the fun and games when he's old enough.  I received plenty of child-rearing advice from all of Cornelia's siblings and their spouses, not to mention my in-laws, which was irksome at times, but I knew their intentions were kind and sincere.  One evening, Tobias asked me if Cornelia and I planned on having more children, or if we were just having Stellan. I told him that we would be interested in adopting again, but that we didn't have any concrete plans to adopt any time soon.  Tobias didn't ask anything else, but his question stuck with me for the rest of the week.

 

Cornelia, Stellan, and I finally returned home.  After putting Stellan to bed one night, Cornelia brought up the idea of international adoption, which we had considered before adopting Stellan.  We agreed that since it can be a two to four year process, we should put in a request at the adoption agency now.  The next day, I called our agent, Sibella Estienne Smith, who told me the countries they were currently in contact with.  We talked about Stellan, and she said that she would update us if any matches were found.  I hung up the phone feeling giddy about the prospect of having another child.

 

That weekend, Cornelia and I left Stellan at home with my mother so that we could go out to dinner.  We hadn't had a real date night since Stellan  was born, so it was a refreshing evening for both of us.  We talked about what countries we wanted to adopt from, deciding that China, Ukraine, and Haiti were our top choices.  We eventually decided that Ukraine was our first choice of country, since I recently had a few international students form Ukraine in my class this past year and hearing about their culture was certainly interesting and they had been some of my most well-behaved and sincere students ever. So we called Sibella the next day and told her that we were interested in adopting a child from Ukraine.

 

For the next few months, we had our home inspected and filled out countless forms.  During the summer, we decided to take a trip to The Atlantis in the Bahamas. It was wonderful to enjoy the beach and sun, Stellan adored making sandcastles and while we felt a little guilty a few times we left him in the daycare and got massages, had some nice dinners together and even spent one afternoon in the sun lazily while he got to go play with some touch sea animals. Of course, we also did a lot together, we met with Dolphins and took pictures and helped work on teaching Stellan to swim in the ocean and in the pool, our little man even tried his first water slide in my lap.

 

The months pass, and we keep in touch with Sibella, who informs us that there are no suitable matches for us yet.  Although we are disappointed by this, we get into a happy and stable routine with Stellan and rely on my mom's help less and less.  For his third birthday, Cornelia and I decided to throw a party for our son.  He asked for a Lion King themed party, since its his favorite movie by far, and I cannot wait to take him to see Hamlet when he's older, have him read it and take him to Denmark - my mother's birth country - one day considering his fascination.  While shopping for party supplies, I received a call from Sibella who told me that there was a match for us!  I rushed home and called Cornelia, who hurried home as well.  We received a file from Sibella with pictures of two year old twin boys from Ukraine.  We fell in love with them immediately. We speak with Sibella for another hour before leaving to go pick up Stellan from a weekend spent with Tobias, Hazel and their kids; Toby, Nathaniel, Reed, Arabella, Violet and their new little boy born six months ago, Brenner Koch Vervloet.

 

When we get home and Cornelia makes dinner and I bring up having a younger sibling to Stellan and he seems excited by the idea which eases some of our tension and we call back Sibella and talk through the process, we set up to go do a first visit in two months when I'll be off for Christmas break from work. We drop Stellan off with Cornelia's parents and then Cornelia, my mother and I fly off  to Ukraine to start some more of the process for the adoption and meet our precious babies, while not identical, both boys have Brown Hair and Green Eyes. They're adorable and down right perfect and we fall in love with them, at the end of the week and a half when we have to say good, I can't imagine anything more painful, but my mother and Cornelia help me get through it. We'll be returning for them soon enough.  We loved every minute that we spent with them and knew that they was the perfect match for our family.  It hurts even worse knowing we're leaving them in the orphanage...While not terrible, the conditions are....still heartbreaking, the boys go by Oleg and Igor, We were sad to part with them, but we gave them  kisses goodbye and told them that we would see them soon and they would finally com home. I got on our return flight in tears and the only thing that got me through it was knowing that Cornelia's parents and Stellan would be there at the airport to pick us up and I could hold Stellan in my arms.

 

As soon as our family gets home, we start to set up a nursery for our little ones. We even get Stellan involved with painting and helping to set it all up and the next thing you know its been another month and it is time for Cornelia and I to travel back to Ukraine to go pick up our little boys for good, to take home, we left Stellan with my mother for the week long time of ourst hearing, signing of papers and such and honestly, its all a rush and barely there memories and when we arrive, Cornelia's whole family, my mother and Stellan are there with all the food, gifts and babysitting offers we could ever want; of course what they're all eagerly awaiting is news I'm glad to give -we had decided to give the boys new names for a new start - as we inform them of the names we've chosen for our newest additions, Boden Cornelius Vervloet Storstrandand and Kai Porter Rowan Storstrand are welcomed joyfully into the Storstrand and Vervloet clan.

 

It has been two years since we welcomed Boden and Kai into our family and things have been going well, we're currently in waiting for our next adoption from China, which we settled the paper work on about six months ago. However, before that, we moved the family into a new home considering our growing family we knew we would need a little more space, thankfully Cornelia  got a promotion the previous year into a full term lawyer and not just an entry position. Which helped, we ended up moving to a new house, which is stunning - It's in a really lovely neighborhood full of families, it's got about eight bedrooms, so we set up three guest bedrooms, room 1 - room 2 - room 3, we made one room into a luxury master for ourselves, Stellan requested a lion king themed room, a spider man themed room for Boden, a sports themed room for Kai, then we left one room empty to be made up when we hear back from the adoption agency - the house also has an in home gym room, a built in playroom for the kids, an in home theater, a wonderful two person office, a luxury kitchen and we designed a lofting library room. It's a perfect home for us all.

 

It's late at night and I'm currently organizing some files for work and are surprised when the phone rings and I see its our case worker, Sieblla, as she had already spoken to you earlier today to once more inform us that we were still on the waiting list to be matched up with a child, and it was looking like no movement would be coming soon at all. I pick up the phone to answer and ask Sibella why she's calling so late and she informs me she's got some interesting news and a proposal for Cornelia and I and it appears that the birth mother of Stellan has fallen pregnant again which was a huge blow for her, she's in college and trying to make the most of her life. Once more she's looking to adopt out her baby, and she wanted to ask Cornelia and I first since the baby would be Stellan's half sibling and she knows it would go to a good home if we both raised the baby. I'm stunned. I ask if I have time to think about the decision before giving an answer, I need to talk to Cornelia and discuss it before we make any major decisions. Sibella says that's fine, but informs me the quicker the better in circumstances like this so Jennifer would be able to have more time to find a different family if we pick not to adopt her baby. I inform Sibella that I understand and end the conversation.

 

I finish my work and then a few hours later, Cornelia comes home and she just wants to go to bed, but I inform her and I need to talk. I sit down in our living room with Cornelia and inform her about the situation at hand, how Jennifer is pregnant again and would like our family to adopt the baby. At first Cornelia  is as shocked as I was, but she brings up how we both want a big family. I  agree and bring up all the empty space in our new large home. We both decide to sleep on it and head to bed

 

The next morning as we're bringing our kids to school and pre-school for the day, I bring up the idea of if they might like a new brother or a sister and they respond individually. Stellan an Boden are very excited to have another sibling, they say they want a little sister this time, but Kai is a little nervous, I ask him why and he said he's worried about not being the youngest anymore, but I promise him he'll always be my baby even if we have another sibling join our family, or ten and it seems to assuage his worries. I drop all the kids off and think about what my children said and head off to work, I have a pretty good day and my co-worker, Stephenie Ann Mathis, even brings in her new baby - Myles, and I coo over him, he's absolutely adorable and it makes my heart yearn for another child. Later that day, when I go home, Cornelia and I seem to both agree, we'd like to adopt Jennifer's baby. We call back our social worker and tell her that we would like to adopt the baby and she is more than pleased to hear it and we start up the process for it once more, signing things, agreeing to pay for certain costs and such, just like last time.

 

Only a few months later I speak with Jennifer to see how she is doing and how schooling is going for her, and its good, thankfully it seems her pregnancy will be in its latent months over the summer and it won't affect her school work, she also informs me that she's found out the baby's gender that day and the baby is a - A Girl. I'm utterly thrilled, while Cornelia and I would have been delighted either way with a healthy baby, we're still very excited at the chance to welcome our first daughter, and quickly send off a text to Cornelia to let her know before wishing Jennifer well and heading off my lunch break to get back to work.

 

When I get home that day I surprise my mother, Barbra, with the news that she'll be a grandmother again and of course she's thrilled and even more so that she'll be getting her first granddaughter. Then I inform the children who still don't entirely all seem so sure, but when I explain that they can help me decorate the room we had previously left bare. Boden and Kai are very excited, but oddly Stellan now seems a little more hesitant so I try and get him involved, but soon enough the nursery is done and looks fantastic. Stellan, Boden and Kai now seem excited, especially Stellan.

 

As the pregnancy progresses, its time to start thinking about names and Cornelia and I talk back and forth having some trouble, but in the end we find some names we like and can agree on for the baby's first name, Thisbe, but have trouble finding a matching middle name, but decide to leave it be for now. It'll come to us later and its not worth fighting over with Cornelia.

 

Of course, nothing can go as expected and on a hot, July afternoon, Jennifer goes into labor three weeks early and our baby arrives! She's 6 pounds and 2 ounces and 17 inches long. This time both Cornelia and I were in the delivery room for the birth and it was magical, a little scary, but magical. Our children are in the waiting room with my mother, Barbran, and Cornelia's parents - Eleanor and Byron, We're all very excited to meet their new family member, and so I bring out our Brown Haired and Brown Eyed bundle of joy and finally express their full name - Thisbe Emmeline Jenibelle Storstrand. We decided to give her middle names after Jennifer since she truly has given us such gifts in Stellan and Thisbe. As I see Thisbe swaddled in his blanket with my mother holding him while Stellan, Boden and Kai watch them with wide, excited eyes I could not find myself ever feeling this happy before and I'm so grateful.

 

 

The Storstrand Family

 

DW: Poppy Esme Rowena Storstrand [37] [Red Hair & Blue Eyes] [History Professor]

DW: Cornelia Genevieve Storstrand (nee Vervloet) [36] [Brown Hair & Hazel Eyes] [Lawyer]

 

DAS1: Stellan Tobias Judah Storstrand [5] [Blonde Hair & Brown Eyes]

(Adopted Domestically; birth mother: Jennifer Altair; half brother of Thisbe)

DAS2: Boden Cornelius Vervloet Storstrand [4] [Brown Hair & Green Eyes]

(Adopted from Ukraine; twin brother of Kai)

DAS3: Kai Porter Rowan Storstrand [4] [Brown Hair & Green Eyes]

(Adopted from Ukraine; twin brother of Boden)

DAD1: Thisbe Emmeline Jenibelle Storstrand [0] [Blonde Hair & Brown Eyes]

(Adopted Domestically; birth mother: Jennifer Altair; half sister of Stellan)

 

Poppy and Cornelia Storstrand; with Stellan, Boden, Kai & Thisbe 



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Posted 12 March 2016 - 10:32 AM

It has been two years since you welcomed your last child and things have been going well, you're currently in waiting for your next adoption from Haiti, which you settled the paper work on about six months ago. However, before that, you moved the family into a new home considering your growing family you knew you guys would need a little more space, thankfully Cleo got a promotion the previous year which has increased your house revenue by tenfold. Which helped, you ended up moving to a new house.

 

It's late at night and you're currently organizing some files for work and are surprised when the phone rings and you see its your case worker, Kady, as she had already spoken to you earlier today to once more inform you that you were still on the waiting list to be matched up with a child, and it was looking like no movement would be coming soon at all. You pick up the phone to answer and ask your social worker why they're calling so late and she informs you she's got some interesting news and a proposal for you and Cleo it appears that the birth mother of Clementine has fallen pregnant again which was a huge blow for her, she's in college and trying to make the most of her life. Once more she's looking to adopt out her baby, and she wanted to ask you and Cleo first since the baby would be Clementine's half sibling and she knows it would go to a good home if you both raised the baby. You're stunned. You ask if you have time to think about the decision before giving an answer, you need to talk to Cleo and discuss it before you make any major decisions. Kady says that's fine, but informs you the quicker the better in circumstances like this so Jennifer would be able to have more time to find a different family if you pick not to adopt her baby. You inform her you understand and end the conversation.

 

You finish your work and then a few hours later, Cleo comes home and they just want to go to bed, but you inform them you need to talk. You sit down in your living room with Cleo and inform them about the situation at hand, how Jennifer is pregnant again and would like your family to adopt the baby. At first Cleo is as shocked as you were, but they bring up how you both want a big family. You agree and bring up all the empty space in your new large home. You both decide to sleep on it and head to bed

 

The next morning as you're bringing your kids to school and pre-school for the day, you bring up the idea of if they might like a new brother or sister and they respond individually. Clementine doesn't care and Vincent is excited and this make you feel nervous. You drop all the kids off and think about what your children said and head off to work, you have a pretty good day and your co-worker even brings in her new baby, and you coo over him, he's absolutely adorable and it makes your heart yearn for another child. Later that day, when you go home, you and Cleo seem to both agree, you'd like to adopt Jennifer's baby. You call back your social worker and tell her that you would like to adopt the baby and she is more than pleased to hear it and you start up the process for it once more, signing things, agreeing to pay for certain costs and such.

 

Only a few months later you speak with Jennifer to see how she is doing and how schooling is going for her, and its good, thankfully it seems her pregnancy will be in its latent months over the summer and it won't affect her school work, she also informs you that she's found out the baby's gender that day and the baby is a - boy. You're thrilled and quickly send off a text to Cleo to let them know before wishing birth mother well and heading off your lunch break to get back to work.

 

When you get home that day you surprise your mother with the news that she'll be a grandmother again and of course she's thrilled. Then you inform the children who still don't entirely all seem so sure, but when you explain that they can help you decorate the room. Vincent is very excited, but Clementine seems a little more hesitant so you try and get them involved, but soon enough the nursery is done and looks fantastic. All your children now seem excited, especially Clementine.

 

As the pregnancy progresses, its time to start thinking about names and you and Cleo talk back and forth having some trouble, but in the end you find some names you like and can agree on for the baby's first name, Pascal, but have trouble finding a matching middle name, but decide to leave it be for now. It'll come to you later and its not worth fighting over with Cleo.

 

Of course, nothing can go as expected and on a hot, July afternoon, Jennifer goes into labor three weeks early and your baby arrives! They're 6 pounds and 2 ounces and 17 inches long. This time both you and Cleo were in the delivery room for the birth and it was magical, a little scary, but magical. Your children are in the waiting room with your mother and Cleo's parents, who're all very excited to meet their new family member, and so you bring out your red hair and blue eyed bundle of joy and finally express their full name Pascal Jensen Rapp. You decided to give them a middle name after Jennifer since she truly has given you such gifts in Clementine and in your newest baby. As you seem swaddled in their blanket with your mother holding him and your other children watching them with wide, excited eyes you could not find yourself ever feeling this happy before and you're so grateful.

 

The Rapp Family

Arabella & Cleo {37}

Clementine {5}, Vincent {2}, & Pascal {0}



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Posted 02 April 2016 - 10:46 PM

My name is Rhiannon Maisie JørgensenI have red hair and blue eyes and I'm 22 years old. I'm a student at Stanford University and I'm pursuing a major in Forensic Anthropology. Ever since I've come to college, I've always been focused on my studies. I've worked very hard to get into Stanford and need to maintain a certain GPA to continue getting my scholarship money to enable me to continue; the second being I need to be able to get scholarships to go on and further my education.

 

However, today is the last day of my fourth year of being an undergrad and I've just taken my final exam, I'm thrilled, and feel like I've passed all my classes with flying colors, and I could not be more ecstatic. All I want to do now is sleep, maybe watch some Netflix, but my roommate, Ashton Jameson Shepard,  insists I accompany her to the party to make sure she gets home safe since she plans on drinking. I loathe the idea, but she did help me out studying for my final in Biology. So, I accompany her to the party and watch her have a good time and hang out on the outskirts of the party.

 

Suddenly, a guy comes up to me. I dismiss him at first, but he made a comment about my favorite band, which kind of catches my interest. He's got black hair and green eyes (but wears light blue contacts) and introduces himself as Stellan Felix van de Laar. He's 18 years old. I start talking to Stellan and find out about him. He's apparently a legacy of the university, went to prep schools his whole life, has traveled the world with his bourgeois family and while that would usually make me feel a bit of a chip on my shoulder, for some reason, it doesn't with Stellan. I find him charming. I also find out that Stellan is majoring in Biochemistry, and the way he speaks about his major so passionately, entices me. We talk for hours before my roommate stumbles over. Realizing I need to get her home, but not wanting the conversation with Stellan to end, we exchange numbers and I promise to call him later. I leave with my roommate and head back to my dorm, feeling much happier than when I arrived at the party.

 

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It's been ten years since the night of the party, and I honestly cannot help but to look back fondly on it. It's the first night I met Stellan, who has now become my husband. We've both graduated from not only our undergrad programs, but from our respective medical school programs and are working in our dream jobs - I'm a Forensic Anthropologist and he's a Biochemist. Stellan and I could not be happier right now. However, there does seem to be something missing. The pitter patter of little feet. So, Stellan and I decide to start trying for a family. We spend 2 years trying and failing to get pregnant, but nothing happens. No pregnancy.

 

We see a fertility doctor who unfortunately informs us that between the two of us there is a low sperm count, and apparently a previously un-diagnosed case of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome with me. The chance of us having a biological child together is next to near impossible. The first thought of it stuns us both. We go home with that knowledge and both discuss some options, but we mostly grieve our loss. Both Stellan and I have always wanted a big family; me as an only child and Stellan comes from a big family with a slew of brothers and sisters. 
 

It takes us 1 month to finally broach the subject of what we two want to do next - stay childless or look into adoption. It's an easy discussion between us and we decide we want to look into adoption. The first thing we decide is we want to look into both international adoption and into domestic adoption. It takes us some time to find an agency to work with and then to get our home looked into and approved for viability. It's a longer process then expected, but a year later we've been set up by the agency and made an adoption book and just hoped that we would be matched with someone - then one day we were.

 

Our case worker informs us that we've been chosen by a young teen, Jessica Sophia Alcyone, who has fallen pregnant. She wants the adoption to be closed. While we feel sorry for the girl, an excitement does well inside of our chest. Stellan and I want this. We want to be parents. We meet with Jessica, and she comes to our house. We all talk and in the end, we sign the papers. We agree to help pay for the cost of her pregnancy from now on, from making sure her medical bills are paid, new maternity clothes are purchased, and help her with getting good healthy food. Other than that there is minimal contact which works well for all parties. 

 

We find out at the six month mark that Jessica is expecting a boy. Either sex would have been okay, but Stellan and I are just so thrilled. The first thing we do is go to half a dozen baby stores and purchase all the things we have always wanted to buy. We spend hours after, well into the night and wee hours of the morning setting up a nursery. It looks so beautiful and we honestly cry. We never thought that first night after seeing the infertility doctor we would ever get to set up a nursery.

 

The rest of the pregnancy goes by so fast. We work through the whole situation by working extra hours and then well, it happens. Jessica goes into labor. It's a quick one and we're there the whole time in the waiting room. Our little one is born perfect with blonde hair and brown eyes, weighing in at 7 pounds and 9 ounces and 23 inches long. Jessica signs away her rights without ever seeing him. We feel incredible when we look down and just know Levi Josiah is coming home with us, where he belongs, and Stellan and I feel such joy as we strap him into his car seat to take him home.

 

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It has been a year since we welcomed Levi into our family and both Stellan and I love being parents, while at times it's very hard considering we work demanding jobs, and with having been promoted, we get help from my mother, Katherine Jane Jørgensen, we know Levi is always in good hands even if Stellan and I are busy with work.

 

However, later that week Stellan, Levi and I attend Stellan's family's yearly reunion. We're staying with his parents, Emmanuel Oscar and Vera Celeste van de Laar, while we do so. Stellan is the youngest of 6 children.  Thaddeus Humphrey van de Laar, 43, is the oldest of the bunch. He is a world renowned surgeon who has been married for 25 years and has eight beautiful children with his wife, Ruby Hazel van de Laar {42}. They are: Nathan Oscar {23},Oliver Miles {21}, Gabriel Wyatt {18}, India Grace {16}, Madeleine Rose {13}, Sophia Violet {11}, Dominic Lucas {9}, and Tessa Eve de Laar{6}. 

 

The next child is Judah Tobias van de Laarwho is 39. He is a CPA and is married to Clementine Ivy van de Laar {37}. They have four daughters. They are: Thea Mabel {17}, Hope Claire {15}, Daisy Faith {12}, and Gemma Leila de Laar {8}. 

 

Dexter Amos van de Laar is the third son. He is 37 years old and is a Lawyer. He's been married to Lydia Alice van de Laar {35} for 17 years, and they have six children. Their names are Jackson Ezra {19}, Christian Liam {18}, Natalie Ava {16}, Graham Lewis {14}, Jonah Milo {13}, and Charlotte Ella de Laar {10}.

 

Cora Mirabel Gallagher is the fourth child and oldest daughter. She is a stay-at-home mom, is 35 years old, and has been with her husband, Montgomery Frederick Gallagher, {36} for 21 years, and has been married for 15. They have 5 children. They are: Emma Juliet {18}, Finn Hudson {16}, Julian Isaac {13},Carolina Josie {9}, and Lily Paige Gallagher {5}.

 

Evangeline Violet van Holland is the fifth child and youngest daughter. She is 34 years old. She is married to Calvin Silas Holland {34} and has 3 children. They are: Harry Sawyer {10}. Francesca Zoe {7}, and Nicholas Owen Holland {2}.

 

 I love spending time with my husband's siblings (their spouses), and our nieces and nephews. They're always talking to us and giving us advice about child rearing, relationships, etc., and while irksome at times, I know it all comes from a good and loving place. Later, when speaking to Cora, she asks me if Stellan and I plan to have anymore kids or if we just plan to have Levi. I offhandedly comment that we would like more kids, but are unsure when Stellan and I intend to look into further adoption, and then I go back to talking about other things, but the thought does seem to stay with me a bit.

 

The night after the reunion and after coming home from work and putting Levi to bed, Stellan and I are reading in bed when he brings back up the fact that we still would like to adopt internationally and that it can take quite a bit of time. I agree with Stellan, having known other people in the adoption community in online support groups who have waited years, and I know we just got very lucky with Levi. We agree to go to bed and place a call with our case worker and agency tomorrow about paper work, considering the likely occurrence of a two to four year wait to be matched up with a child.

 

The next day on our lunch break I place a call to my agent, Catharina Amaya Wagner, and she agrees it would be good to start working through the papers since it could take some time. Cat explains which countries she has current associations with and informs me that Stellan and I need to pick one to start the process. We chit chat a little more about how Levi is doing before hanging up and heading back to work that day, extremely excited.

 

That night I ask Stellan's oldest sibling and his wife - Thaddeus and Ruby - to watch Levi so Stellan and I can decide on which country we want to adopt from. After leaving Levi, we go out and have a nice dinner together for the first time in awhile and savor it, making some small work talk before hitting to harder subjects. We discuss some of the places that intrigue us, and make it down to our top three locations - Japan, Ethiopia and Germany. Eventually, we end up deciding on Ethiopia because of how many orphans there are in Africa.

 

Later that night, I send an email off to my agent to get the ball rolling on the process. The next day I pick up Levi from Stellan's brother and sister-in-law, Thaddeus and Ruby, and feel refreshed and excited about our decision. Over the next couple of months, Stellan and I work through the paper work, have our home visits and then hit the dry spell we knew would hit, but we fill it with exciting things including our first family vacation with Levi.

 

It takes some time for us to decide, but we end up picking Disney World. Stellan and I pick a less crowded week to take off, not around traditional holidays, and then spend the week with our family, making memories and taking a ton of photos. We got on every single ride, including the ones in Magic Kingdom. My favorite part was the water rides, and Stellan and I's least favorite part was cleaning up all the puke out of the car when Levi got sick.

 

Sadly, even after that, I still haven't heard much back from my agent, other then she's still looking to match Stellan and I with a child. We try not to feel disheartened by the time frame and continue to enjoy life as it is now. I get into a routine again with Stellan and Levi, and my monthly discussions with my case worker to check in, until it's been about a year and a half since I put in the paper work, and Levi is just a month away from turning three! I can't believe how big he's gotten.

 

While shopping for Levi's party (he's having a Safari theme), I get a call from my agent. She's found a match! I ask Cat if I can call her back in a minute as I am out and not at a computer to receive the file, and she agrees. I rush through check out and quickly call Stellan telling him he needs to get home; we've been matched! I throw everything into the car and drive home and thankfully Stellan is there as well, and I call Cat back, who informs me that we've been matched with a 2 year old girl, and we couldn't be more thrilled. I speak with her for another hour before she sends the file and I open it up, look through pictures, and feel my heart melt. Stellan and I browse through it a little more before leaving to go pick up Levi from a day with Stellan's parents.

 

I get home and Stellan makes dinner and we bring up having a younger sibling to Levi, and he seems excited by the idea, which eases some of our tension, and I call back my agent and talk through the process. We set up to go do a first visit in two months when we'll be off for Christmas break from work. Stellan, my mother, and Levi and I fly off to Ethiopia and meet our precious little girl for the first time. She has black hair and brown eyes. She's adorable and down right perfect, and we fall in love with her. At the end of the week and a half when we have to say goodbye, we can't imagine anything more painful, but Stellan and my mother help me get through it. We'll be returning for her soon enough.

 

As soon as our family gets home, we start to set up a nursery for our little girl. We get Levi involved with painting and helping to set it all up, and the next thing we know, it's been another month and Stellan and I travel back to Ethiopia to go pick up our daughter for good, to take home, and when we arrive, Stellan's whole family, my mother and Levi are there with all the food, gifts and babysitting offers we could ever want; of course, what they're all eagerly awaiting is news we're glad to give, as we inform them of the name we've chosen for our newest addition. Haven Stella is welcomed joyfully into the van de Laar clan.

 

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It has been two years since Stellan and I welcomed our last child and things have been going well. We're currently in waiting for our next adoption from Korea, which we settled the paper work on about six months ago. However, before that, we moved the family into a new home considering our growing family, we knew we would need a little more space. Thankfully, Stellan got a promotion the previous year, which has increased our house revenue tenfold, which helped. We ended up moving to a new house, which has 10 bedrooms, 4 and a half baths, a recreational room, sun room, theater and a pool. We love the house because of all the amenities it came with, and there's a school and a playground right down the road.

 

It's late at night and I'm currently organizing some files for work and am surprised when the phone rings, and see it's my case worker, Cat, as she had already spoken to me earlier today to once more inform me that we were still on the waiting list to be matched up with a child, and it was looking like no movement would be coming soon at all. I pick up the phone to answer and ask my social worker why she's calling so late, and she informs me that she's got some interesting news and a proposal for Stellan and I. It appears that the birth mother of Levi has fallen pregnant again, which was a huge blow for her. She's in college and trying to make the most of her life. Once more she's looking to adopt out her baby, and she wanted to ask Levi and I first, since the baby would be Levi's half sibling and she knows it would go to a good home if we raised the baby. I'm stunned. I ask Cat if I have time to think about the decision before giving an answer. I need to talk to Stellan and discuss it before we make any major decisions. Cat says that's fine, but informs me the quicker, the better, in circumstances like this, so Jessica would be able to have more time to find a different family, if we decide not to adopt her baby. I inform her that I understand and end the conversation.

 

I finish my work and then a few hours later, Stellan comes home and he just wants to go to bed, but I inform him that we need to talk. I sit down in the living room with Stellan and inform him about the situation at hand, how Jessica is pregnant again and would like us to adopt the baby. At first Stellan is as shocked as I was, but he brings up how we both want a big family. We agree and bring up all the empty space in our new large home. We decide to sleep on it, and head to bed.

 

The next morning, as I'm bringing my kids to school and pre-school for the day, I bring up the idea if they might like a new brother or sister and they respond individually. Levi is joyed and Haven doesn't care, and this make me feel a tad upset for Haven. I drop the kids off and think about what they said and head off to work. I have a pretty good day and my co-worker even brings in her new baby, and I coo over him. He's absolutely adorable and it makes my heart yearn for another child. Later that day, when I go home, Stellan and I seem to both agree that we'd like to adopt Jessica's baby. I call my social worker back and tell her that we would like to adopt the baby, and she is more than pleased to hear it, and we start up the process for it once more, signing things, agreeing to pay for certain costs and such.

 

Only a few months later, I speak with Jessica to see how she is doing and how schooling is going for her, and it's good. Thankfully, it seems her pregnancy will be in its latent months over the summer and it won't affect her school work. She also informs me that she's found out the baby's gender that day, and the baby is a girl. I'm thrilled and quickly send off a text to Stellan to let him know before wishing birth mother well, and heading off my lunch break to get back to work.

 

When I get home that day, I surprise my mother with the news that she'll be a grandmother again. and of course she's thrilled. Then I inform the children who still don't entirely all seem so sure, but when I explain that they can help decorate the room, Haven is very excited, but Levi seems a little more hesitant, so I try and get him involved, but soon enough, the nursery is done and looks fantastic. The children now seem excited, especially Levi.

 

As the pregnancy progresses, it's time to start thinking about names, and Stellan and I talk back and forth, having some trouble, but in the end we find some names we like and can agree on for the baby's first name, Anneliese, but have trouble finding a matching middle name, but we decide to leave it be for now. It'll come to us later and it's not worth fighting over with Stellan.

 

Of course, nothing can go as expected and on a hot, July afternoon, Jessica goes into labor three weeks early and our baby arrives! She's 6 pounds and 2 ounces and 17 inches long. This time both Stellan and I were in the delivery room for the birth and it was magical. A little scary, but magical. Our children are in the waiting room with my mother and Stellan's parents, who're all very excited to meet their new family member, and so we bring out our red hair and hazel eyed bundle of joy, and finally express her full name, Anneliese Sophia van de Laar. We decided to give her a middle name after Jessica since she truly has given us such gifts in Levi and in our newest baby. As we see Anna swaddled in her blanket with my mother holding her, and our other children watching them with wide, excited eyes, we could not find yourself ever feeling this happy before and we're so grateful.
 

The van de Laar Family

 

DW: Rhiannon Maisie van de Laar (nee Jørgensen) [38] {Red Hair and Blue Eyes}

DH: Stellan Felix van de Laar [34] {Black Hair and Green Eyes}

 

DAS: Levi Josiah van de Laar [5] {Blonde Hair and Brown Eyes}

DAD: Haven Stella van de Laar [4] {Black Hair and Brown Eyes}

DAD: Anneliese Sophia van de Laar [0] {Red Hair and Hazel Eyes}

 

Rhi and Stel with; 

 

Levi, Haven & Anna



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Posted 29 May 2017 - 02:39 PM

My name is Arabella Jamesina Rundstrom, I have Black Hair and Brown Eyes and I'm twenty-one years old. I'm a student at Columbia University and you're pursuing a major in Biology. Ever since I came to college, I've always been focused on my studies, I've worked very hard to get into Columbia and need to maintain a certain GPA to continue getting my scholarship money to enable me to continue, the second being I need to be able to get scholarships to go on and further my education.

 

However, today is the last day of my senior year of undergrad and I've just taken my final exam, I'm thrilled, and feel like I've passed all my classes with flying colors and I could not be more ecstatic. All I want to do now is sleep, maybe watch some netflix, but my roommate, Justice Harley Duncan,  insists I accompany her to the party to make sure she gets home safe since she plans on drinking. I loathe the idea, but she did help me out studying for my final in Journalism. So, I accompany her to the party and watch her have a good time and hang out on the outskirts of the party.

 

Suddenly, a guy comes up to me. I dismiss him at first, but he made a comment about my favorite tv show, The Magicians, which kind of catches my interest. He's got Brown Hair and Blue Eyes and introduces themselves as Lloyd Humphrey Vossen, they're nineteen years old. I start talking to Lloyd and find out about him, he is apparently a legacy of the university, went to prep schools his whole life, has traveled the world with his bourgeois family and while that would usually make me feel a bit of a chip on my shoulder, for some reason, it doesn't with Lloyd, for some reason. I find him charming. I also find out that Lloyd is majoring in Business and the way Lloyd speak about his major so passionately it entices me. We talk for hours before Justice stumbles over. Realizing I need to get her home, but not wanting the conversation with Lloyd to end, so we exchange numbers and I promise to call him later. I leave with Justice and head back to my dorm, feeling much happier than when I'd arrived at the party.

 

I met my husband ten years ago at that silly college party, and as much as I disliked the party scene in college, I can't help but look back on that night fondly.  Ever since that night, Lloyd and I started dating.  We graduated from Columbia, and Lloyd ended up working for his family's company while I went right into Medical School at NYU - Since we were both in New York, we continued to date throughout our 20's.  Eventually, Lloyd completed his internship with his family, and attended graduate school for business at Columbia University. Once we both completed school, I became a Pediatrician at Mount Sinai in NYC and Lloyd went back to working as an Executive at his father's company.

 

Once we settled into our careers, we got married.  It was a rather large ceremony with a ton of both of our associates at Oheka Castle on Long Island.  Lloyd and I decided to honeymoon in a few places over the course of three weeks Dublin, Ireland, Paris, France and ending in The Bahamas. We used the lump sum of money that Lloyd's parents had gifted us for the wedding invested the money we saved into buying a four-bedroom house together, since we planned on having kids soon after getting married.

 

Lloyd and I started trying to conceive soon after getting married, but a year passed, and we still had no luck getting pregnant.  We visited a fertility doctor, who reported that Lloyd had a low sperm count, and I had an undiagnosed case of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, making it nearly impossible for us to have a biological child together.  Lloyd and I were stunned and devastated.  We spent a few months going over the facts and trying to think of a solution.  As an only child, I wanted my kids to have many siblings that they could count on, since Lloyd has a load of siblings and loves being a part of a big family.

 

Six months after the news, Lloyd and I made the decision to visit an adoption agency.  We were matched with a birth mother, Jessica Isabella Luna,  who lived in a rural area in Vermont.  She was 16 and had gotten pregnant accidentally.  We met with her a few times and agreed to pay for her medical bills.  The adoption agency informed us a few months into the pregnancy that we would be the parents of a little girl. Lloyd and I had agreed that we would be fine with either gender, but we were both so excited to have a daughter.

 

Lloyd and I spent the next few months converting one of our spare bedrooms into a nursery for our daughter.  Finally, the day of delivery arrived. Jessica  went into labor, and we waited for hours at the hospital until finally we received news that she had been born.  Our daughter weighed seven pounds and nine ounces and was twenty-three inches long.  She had Brown Hair and Green Eyes.  Jessica signed away her rights without even seeing the baby another time.  We took her home the next day and named her Flora Veronica Vossen.

 

My mother, Katherine Grace Rundstrom (née Avignon), moved to New York shortly after Flora was born to help us raise her, since Lloyd and I had such demanding jobs.  Juggling motherhood and being promoted to a full time Pediatric Resident, but Flora's smile motivated us through the challenges we faced as new parents.

 

Around Flora's first birthday, Lloyd, Flora, and I flew to Palm Beach Gardens, Florida for the annual Vossen family reunion.  We stayed at Lloyd's parents home, Veronica Charlotte (née Carlton) and Jeremiah Felix Vossen,. Lloyd is the youngest of four kids.  The eldest Verhoeven child is Felix Dudley Vossen, who is 42.  He graduated from Sanford with a degree in Computer programming  .  He is married to Agnes Louise Vossen (née Fontaine), a stay-at-home mother, and they have five kids: Finn Jasper (16), Liam Felix (14), Theo Lewis (12), Max Charlie (10) and Sophie Bella (7). They live in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida in the same community as Veronica and Jeremiah.

 

The second Vossen child is Dexter Amos Vossen, who is 39.  He graduated from New York University with a degree in Political Science, to go on and get a law degree from Fordham. His wife's name is Tess Winifred Vossen (née Harwell). She is also a lawyer and the pair have their own law firm together. Dexter and Tess have five kids: Aidan Wyatt (10), Zoe Addison (9), Brooke Tessa (7), Walker Andrew (5) and Sloane Chloe (5). Dexter, Tess and the kids all live on Long Island and we actually see them rather often, a standard once a month dinner.

 

The third Vossen child and only daughter is Faye Theodora Anderson (née Vossen). She is 35 and is married to Lionel August Anderson. Faye and Lionel have four children: Simon Jack (6), Violet Thea (4), Maisie Rose (1) and Levi Frederick (0). Faye went to Columbia University where she majored in Accounting and Business. She's now working as an Executive at the family business and Lionel is a stay-at-home father. They live in Long Island and again, we see them very often, even more so since Faye and Lloyd work together.

 

With around twenty people at the reunion, there were plenty of people to talk to, and it was fun watching all the kids play together.  Lloyd and I cannot wait to see Flora really joining in on the fun and agmes when she's old enough, for now its nice to see her and Maisie playing together gently.  I received plenty of child-rearing advice from all of Lloyd's siblings and their spouses, not to mention my in-laws, which was irksome at times, but I knew their intentions were kind and sincere.  One evening, Faye asked me if Lloyd and I planned on having more children, or if we were just having Flora.  I told her  that we would be interested in adopting again, but that we didn't have any concrete plans to adopt any time soon.  Faye didn't ask anything else, but her question stuck with me for the rest of the week.

 

Lloyd, Flora and I finally returned home.  After putting Flora to bed one night, Lloyd brought up the idea of international adoption, which we had considered before adopting Lloyd.  We agreed that since it can be a two to four year process, we should put in a request at the adoption agency now.  The next day, I called our agent, Calliope Linnea Bennett , who told me the countries they were currently in contact with.  We talked about Flora, and she said that she would update us if any matches were found.  I hung up the phone feeling giddy about the prospect of having another child.

 

That weekend, Lloyd and I left Flora at home with my mother so that we could go out to dinner.  We hadn't had a real date night since Flora was born, so it was a refreshing evening for both of us.  We talked about what countries we wanted to adopt from, deciding that Vietnam, China and South Korea were our top choices.  We eventually decided that China was our first choice of country. Our neighbors, Elisabeth Lynn  and Diana Jess Yelims-Sedohr adopted their son, Halvar Kip (2), from China and could not have been happier with their choice, and Halvar is just the sweetest little boy. So we called Calliope the next day and told her that we were interested in adopting a child from China.

 

For the next few months, we had our home inspected and filled out countless forms.  During the summer, we decided to take a weekend trip to Hershey Park in Pennsylvania. Flora had a fun time getting hyped up on lots of sugar and then of course, the rides and other games. It was nice little trip.

 

The months pass, and we keep in touch with Calliope, who informs us that there are no suitable matches for us yet.  Although we are disappointed by this, we get into a happy and stable routine with Flora and rely on my mom's help less and less.  For her third birthday, Lloyd and I decided to throw a party for our daughter.  She asked for a Lion King themed party, since it's a family favorite and Flora adores The Lion Guard.  While shopping for party supplies, I received a call from Calliope who told me that there was a match for us!  I rushed home and called Lloyd, who hurried home as well.  We received a file from Calliope with pictures of seven month old twin girls.  We fell in love with them immediately.

 

Flora was excited about the news of having little sisters.  The day after her birthday party, Lloyd and I flew to Florida and dropped Flora off with Lloyd's parents, flew to China, We spent a whole week with the girls and we loved every minute that we spent with them and knew that they was the perfect match for our family.  They both had Black Hair and Almond Eyes. We were sad to part with them, but we gave them  kisses goodbye and told them that we would see them soon.  

 

Lloyd and I decorated our second spare bedroom, creating a beautiful nursery for our twins.  Finally, another month passed, and we left Flora with Faye, Lionel and their kids while we flew to China again, this time to bring our little darlings home for good.  We named them Iris Humphrey Vossen and Lily Arabella Vossen.

 

It has been two years since we welcomed Iris and Lily into our family and things have been going well, we're currently in waiting for our next adoption from Columbia, which we settled the paper work on about six months ago. However, before that, we moved the family into a new home considering our growing family we knew we would need a little more space, thankfully Lloyd  got a promotion the previous year to - an upper executive. Which helped, we ended up moving to a new house, which is stunning - It's in a really lovely neighborhood full of families, it's about an hour from the city where both Lloyd and I work. It's got about seven bedrooms - so we set up three guest bedrooms- one, two and three, we made one room into a luxury master for ourselves, Flora requested a pink room and we made it happen, very pink. a double bedroom for Iris and Lily since we don't want to separate them just yet, and one unmade room for our little one to come. the house also has, a built in playroom for the kids, a luxury kitchen and we designed a library room. It's a perfect home for us all.

 

It's late at night and I'm currently organizing some files for work and are surprised when the phone rings and I see its our case worker, Calliope, as she had already spoken to you earlier today to once more inform us that we were still on the waiting list to be matched up with a child, and it was looking like no movement would be coming soon at all. I pick up the phone to answer and ask Callipe why she's calling so late and she informs me she's got some interesting news and a proposal for Lloyd and I and it appears that the birth mother of Flora has fallen pregnant again which was a huge blow for her, she's in college and trying to make the most of her life. Once more she's looking to adopt out her baby, and she wanted to ask Lloyd and I first since the baby would be Flora's half sibling and she knows it would go to a good home if we both raised the baby. I'm stunned. I ask if I have time to think about the decision before giving an answer, I need to talk to Lloyd and discuss it before we make any major decisions. Calliope says that's fine, but informs me the quicker the better in circumstances like this so Jessica would be able to have more time to find a different family if we pick not to adopt her baby. I inform Calliope that I understand and end the conversation.

 

I finish my work and then a few hours later, Lloyd comes home and he just wants to go to bed, but I inform him and I need to talk. I sit down in our living room with Lloyd and inform him about the situation at hand, how Jessica is pregnant again and would like our family to adopt the baby. At first Lloyd  is as shocked as I was, but he brings up how we both want a big family. I  agree and bring up all the empty space in our new large home. We both decide to sleep on it and head to bed

 

The next morning as we're bringing our kids to school and pre-school for the day, I bring up the idea of if they might like a new brother or sister and they respond individually. Iris and Lily express joy, they're both very excited to become big sisters, but Flora becomes upset, she doesn't understand why we need more babies and how the baby is her biological half-sibling simply confuses her. I calm her down with a little talk and she seems a bit better, but still upset. I drop all the kids off and think about what my children said and head off to work, I have a pretty good day and my co-worker, Aideen Natalie Jean, even brings in her new baby - Luke, and I coo over him, he's absolutely adorable and it makes my heart yearn for another child. Later that day, when I go home, Lloyd and I seem to both agree, we'd like to adopt Jessica's baby. We call back our social worker and tell her that we would like to adopt the baby and she is more than pleased to hear it and we start up the process for it once more, signing things, agreeing to pay for certain costs and such.

 

Only a few months later I speak with Jessica to see how she is doing and how schooling is going for her, and its good, thankfully it seems her pregnancy will be in its latent months over the summer and it won't affect her school work, she also informs me that she's found out the baby's gender that day and the baby is a - A Boy. I'm thrilled and quickly send off a text to Lloyd to let him know before wishing Jessica well and heading off my lunch break to get back to work.

 

When I get home that day I surprise my mother, Katherine, with the news that she'll be a grandmother again and of course she's thrilled. Then I inform the children who still don't entirely all seem so sure, but when I explain that they can help me decorate the room we had previously left bare. Iris and Lily are very excited, but  Flora still seems a little more hesitant so I try and get her involved, but soon enough the nursery is done and looks fantastic. Flora, Iris and Lily now seem excited, especially Flora.

 

As the pregnancy progresses, its time to start thinking about names and Lloyd and I talk back and forth having some trouble, but in the end we find some names we like and can agree on for the baby's first name, Warren, but have trouble finding a matching middle name, but decide to leave it be for now. It'll come to us later and its not worth fighting over with Lloyd.

 

Of course, nothing can go as expected and on a hot, July afternoon, Jessica goes into labor three weeks early and our baby arrives! He's 6 pounds and 2 ounces and 17 inches long. This time both Lloyd and I were in the delivery room for the birth and it was magical, a little scary, but magical. Our children are in the waiting room with my mother, Katherine, and Lloyd's parents - Veronica and Jeremiah, We're all very excited to meet their new family member, and so I bring out our Blonde Haired and Hazel Eyed bundle of joy and finally express their full name - Warren Jesse Vossen. We decided to give him a middle name after Jessica since she truly has given us such gifts with Flora and Warren. As I see Warren swaddled in his blanket with my mother holding him while Flora, Iris and Lily watch them with wide, excited eyes I could not find myself ever feeling this happy before and I'm so grateful.

 

 

The Vossen Family

 

ME: Arabella Jamesina Vossen (nee Rundstrom) [38] [Black Hair & Brown Eyes] [Pediatrician]

LI: Lloyd Humphrey Vossen [35] [Brown Hair & Blue Eyes] [Business Executive]

 

DAD1: Flora Veronica Vossen [5] [Brown Hair & Green Eyes]

(Adopted Domestically; birth mother: Jessica Luna; half sister of Warren)

DAD2: Iris Humphrey Vossen  [3] [Black Hair & Almond Eyes]

(Adopted from China; twin sister of Lily)

DAD3: Lily Arabella Vossen [3] [Black Hair & Almond Eyes]

(Adopted from China; twin sister of Iris)

DAS1: Warren Jesse Vossen [0] [Blonde Hair & Hazel Eyes]

(Adopted Domestically; birth mother: Jessica Luna; half brother of Flora)

 

Arabella and Lloyd Vossen; with Flora, Iris, Lily & Warren

 



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Posted 29 May 2017 - 04:19 PM

It has been two years since you welcomed your last child and things have been going well, you're currently in waiting for your next adoption from Korea, which you settled the paper work on about six months ago. However, before that, you moved the family into a new home considering your growing family you knew you guys would need a little more space, thankfully Caspian got a promotion the previous year to the head of accounting at his company which has increased your house revenue by tenfold. Which helped, you ended up moving to a new house, here, You chose it because it was big with  lots of bedrooms for your growing family. It also has two bathrooms. iris loves it because she thinks it looks like a princess castle.

 

It's late at night and you're currently organizing some files for work and are surprised when the phone rings and you see its your case worker, Persephone, as she had already spoken to you earlier today to once more inform you that you were still on the waiting list to be matched up with a child, and it was looking like no movement would be coming soon at all. You pick up the phone to answer and ask your social worker why they're calling so late and she informs you she's got some interesting news and a proposal for you and Caspian. It appears that the birth mother of Iris has fallen pregnant again which was a huge blow for her, she's in college and trying to make the most of her life. Once more she's looking to adopt out her baby, and she wanted to ask you and Caspian first since the baby would be Iris' half sibling and she knows it would go to a good home if you both raised the baby. You're stunned. You ask if you have time to think about the decision before giving an answer, you need to talk to Caspian and discuss it before you make any major decisions. Persephone says that's fine, but informs you the quicker the better in circumstances like this so Emily would be able to have more time to find a different family if you pick not to adopt her baby. You inform her you understand and end the conversation.

 

You finish your work and then a few hours later, Caspian comes home and they just want to go to bed, but you inform them you need to talk. You sit down in your living room with Caspian and inform them about the situation at hand, how Emily is pregnant again and would like your family to adopt the baby. At first Caspian is as shocked as you were, but they bring up how you both want a big family. You agree and bring up all the empty space in your new large home. You both decide to sleep on it and head to bed

 

The next morning as you're bringing your kids to school and pre-school for the day, you bring up the idea of if they might like a new brother or sister and they respond individually. All three don't seem to really care either way and this make you feel glad that at least they're nt against it, though you do wonder how they'll really feel if it does happen. You drop all the kids off and think about what your children said and head off to work, you have a pretty good day and your co-worker even brings in her new baby, and you coo over him, he's absolutely adorable and it makes your heart yearn for another child. Later that day, when you go home, you and Caspian seem to both agree, you'd like to adopt Emily's baby. You call back your social worker and tell her that you would like to adopt the baby and she is more than pleased to hear it and you start up the process for it once more, signing things, agreeing to pay for certain costs and such.

 

Only a few months later you speak with Emily to see how she is doing and how schooling is going for her, and its good, thankfully it seems her pregnancy will be in its latent months over the summer and it won't affect her school work, she also informs you that she's found out the baby's gender that day and the baby is a - boy. You're thrilled and quickly send off a text to Caspian to let them know before wishing birth mother well and heading off your lunch break to get back to work.

 

When you get home that day you surprise your mother with the news that she'll be a grandmother again and of course she's thrilled. Then you inform the children who still don't entirely all seem so sure, but when you explain that they can help you decorate the room. Axel and Serena are very excited, but Iris seems a little more hesitant so you try and get them involved, but soon enough the nursery is done and looks fantastic. All your children now seem excited, especially Iris.

 

As the pregnancy progresses, its time to start thinking about names and you and Caspian talk back and forth having some trouble, but in the end you find some names you like and can agree on for the baby's first name, Lucian (though we're a little worried that it's too close to our last name Lucas). , but have trouble finding a matching middle name, but decide to leave it be for now. It'll come to you later and its not worth fighting over with Caspian.

 

Of course, nothing can go as expected and on a hot, July afternoon, Emily goes into labor three weeks early and your baby arrives! They're 6 pounds and 2 ounces and 17 inches long. This time both you and Caspian were in the delivery room for the birth and it was magical, a little scary, but magical. Your children are in the waiting room with your mother and Caspian's parents, who're all very excited to meet their new family member, and so you bring out your red hair and hazel eyed bundle of joy and finally express their full name Lucian Emery Lucas. You decided to give them a middle name after Emily since she truly has given you such gifts in Iris and in your newest baby. As you seem swaddled in their blanket with your mother holding him and your other children watching them with wide, excited eyes you could not find yourself ever feeling this happy before and you're so grateful.

 

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DH: Caspian Felix Lucas  Looks (36)

DW: Hermione Nessa Lucas Looks (37)

DAD: Iris Mae Lucas (6)

DAS/DAD: Axel Hermes Lucas and Serena Cassandra Lucas (3)

DAS: Lucian Emery Lucas (newborn)

 

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Extended Family

 

Maternal Grandmother: Elizabeth Anne Hall

 

Paternal Grandfather: Arthur Josiah Lucas

Paternal Grandmother: Cora Nicole Lucas

 

Aunts, Uncles, Cousins:

 

DH: Josiah Roman Redwood

DW: Clarissa Mae Redwood

DS: Levi Cole Redwood

DS/DS: Nicholas Lucas Redwood and Nathan Jackson Redwood

DS: Simon Quinn Redwood

DS: Oliver Julian Redwood

 

DH: Tobias Homer Lucas

DW: Lydia Ruth Lucas

DD: Addison Brooke Lucas

DS: Andrew Jack Lucas

DD: Ava Kate Lucas

 

DH: Judah Phineas Lucas

DW: Violet Elsie Lucas

DD: Charlotte Grace Lucas

DS: Liam Elijah Lucas

DD: Isabel Hope Lucas

DD: Olivia Paige Lucas

DD: Sophia Claire Lucas

 

DH: August Jasper Raven

DW: Amity Susannah Raven

DS/DS: Gabriel Isaiah Raven and Isaac Gregory Raven

 DD: Emma Faith Raven

 

DH: Amos Chester Lucas

DW: Ivy Hazel Lucas

DS: Noah Andrew Lucas

DD: Felicity Helen Lucas "Lissy"

DD:Lily Gabriella Lucas

DD: Miranda Rose Lucas

DD: Juliana Addison Lucas



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Posted 14 February 2019 - 05:14 PM

Your name is Eva Isobel Jansson, you have red hair and brown eyes and you're 20 years old. You're a student at Yale University and you're pursuing a major in English. Ever since you've come to college, you've always been focused on your studies, you've worked very hard to get into Take and need to maintain a certain GPA to continue getting your scholarship money to enable you to continue, the second being you need to be able to get scholarships to go on and further your education.

 

However, today is the last day of your junior year of undergrad and you've just taken your final exam, you're thrilled, and feel like you've passed all your classes with flying colors and you could not be more ecstatic. All you want to do now is sleep, maybe watch some netflix, but your roommate, Leslie Schuyler Jens,  insists you accompany her to the party to make sure she gets home safe since she plans on drinking. You loathe the idea, but she did help you out studying for your final in Calculus. So, you accompany her to the party and watch her have a good time and hang out on the outskirts of the party.

 

Suddenly, a guy comes up to you. You dismiss him at first, but he comments about my favorite TV show which kind of catches your interest. He's got black hair and hazel eyes and introduces himself as Stellan Otto Reynders, he's 18 years old. You start talking to Stellan and find out about them, they're apparently legacies of the university, went to prep schools their whole life, have traveled the world with their bourgeois family and while that would usually make you feel a bit of a chip on your shoulder, for some reason, it doesn't with him. You find them charming. You also find out that Stellan is majoring in Biology and the way they speak about their major so passionately entices you. You talk for hours before your roommate stumbles over. Realizing you need to get her home, but not wanting the conversation with Stellan to end so you exchange numbers and promise to call them later. You leave with your roommate and head back to your dorm, feeling much happier than when you arrived at the party.


~


It's been ten years since the night of the party and you honestly cannot help but to look back fondly on it. It's the first night you met Stellan who has now become your husband. You've both graduated from not only your undergrad programs, but from your respective graduate school programs and are each working in your dream jobs - Editor and Biology Professor. You and Stellan could not be happier right now. However, there does seem to be something missing. The pitter patter of little feet. So, you and Stellan decide to start trying for a family, you spend 1 year trying and failing to get pregnant, but nothing happens. No pregnancy.

 

You see a fertility doctor who unfortunately informs you that between the two of you there is a low sperm count and apparently a previously undiagnosed case of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome between you. The chance of you two having a biological child together is next to near impossible. The first thought of it stuns you both, you go home with that knowledge and both discuss some options, but you mostly grieve your loss. Both you and Stellan have always wanted a big family, you as an only child and then Stellan comes from a big family with a slew of brothers and sisters. 
 

It takes you 4 months to finally broach the subject of what you two want to do next, stay childless or look into adoption. It's an easy discussion between us and we decide we want to look into adoption. The first thing we decide is we want to look into both international adoption and into domestic adoption. It takes us some time to find an agency to work with and then to get our home looked into and approved for viability. It's a longer process then expected, but a year later you've been set up by the agency and made an adoption book and just hoped that you would be matched with someone; then one day you were.

 

Your case worker informs you that you've been chosen by a young teen, Jennifer Sophia Holmes, who has fallen pregnant. She wants the adoption to be closed. While you feel sorry for the girl, an excitement does well inside of your chest. You and Stellan want this, you want to be parents. You meet with Jen and she comes to your house. You all talk and in the end, you sign the papers. You agree to help pay for the cost of her pregnancy from now on, from making sure her medical bills are paid, new maternity clothes are purchased and help her with getting good healthy food. Other than that there is minimal contact which works well for all parties. 

 

We find out at the six month mark that Jen is expecting a boy. Either sex would have been okay, but you and Stellan are just so thrilled. The first thing you both do is go to half a dozen baby stores and purchase all the things you have always wanted to buy. You spend hours after, well into the night and wee hours of the morning setting up a nursery. It looks so beautiful and you honestly cry. You never thought that first night after seeing the infertility doctor you would ever get to set up a nursery.

 

The rest of the pregnancy goes by so fast, I work through the whole situation by working extra hours and then well, it happens. Jen goes into labor. It's a quick one and we're there the whole time in the waiting room. Your little one is born perfect with red hair and hazel eyes weighing in at 7 pounds and 9 ounces and 23 inches long. Jen signs away her rights without ever seeing him. You feel incredible when you look down and just know Otto Felix Jansson-Reynders is coming home with you. Where they belong and you and Stellan feel such joy as you strap them into their car seat to take Otto home.


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It has been a year since you welcomed Otto into your family and both you and Stellan love being parents, while at times its very hard considering you both work demanding jobs and with you having been promoted up a position to Senior Editor, but thanks to help from your mother, Sarah Patricia {nee Standon} Jansson, you know Otto is always in good hands even if you and Stellan are busy with work.

 

However, later that week you, Stellan and Otto attend his family's yearly reunion. You're staying with his parents, Florencia Gertrude {nee Sanbe} Reyners 'Flora' and Simon Atticus Reyners, while you do so. You love hanging out with all of his siblings, Rufus Humphrey Reyners, Dexter Judah Reyners, and Veronica Amity {nee Jansson} Kurra, their spouses, Tess Louisa {nee Burnwood} Reyners, Hazel Beatrix {nee Caskal} Reyners, and Oscar Frederick Kurra and all your nieces and nephews as Stellan is the youngest child in his family. They're always talking to you guys and giving advice about child rearing, relationships, etc and while irksome at times you know it all comes from a good and loving place. Later, when speaking to Dexter, they ask you if you plan to have anymore kids or if you guys just plan to have Otto. You offhandedly comment that you would like more kids, but are unsure when you and Stellan intend to look into further adoption and go back to talking about other things, but the thought does seem to stay with you a bit.

 
Stellan's Family

DW: Florencia 'Flora' Gertrude {nee Sanbe} Reyners
DH: Simon Atticus Reyners

DS: Rufus Humphrey Reyners
DS: Dexter Judah Reyners
DD: Veronica Amity {nee Reyners} Kurra
DS: Stellan Otto Reyners

Flora & Simon with Rufus, Dexter, Veronica, and Stellan.


DH: Rufus Humphrey Reyners
DW: Tess Louisa {nee Burnwood} Reyners

DD: Sloane Juliana Reyners
DS: Nathan Henry Reyners
DD: Thea Claire Reyners
DS: Forrest Levi Reyners
DS: Jasper Dashiell Reyners

Rufus & Tess with Sloane, Nathan, Thea, Forrest, and Jasper.


DH: Dexter Judah Reyners
DW: Hazel Beatrix {nee Caskal} Reyners

DS: Leo Sebastian Reyners
DS: Ezra Truman Reyners
DD: Zoe Violet Reyners
DD: Maya Juliet Reyners
DD: Bella Charlotte Reyners
DD: Lily Margaret Reyners
DS: Max Quentin Reyners
DS: Eli Julian Reyners

Dexter & Hazel with Leo, Ezra, Zoe, Maya, Bella, Lily, Max, and Eli.


DW: Veronica Amity {nee Reyners} Kurra
DH: Oscar Frederick Kurra

DS: Jackson Oscar Kurra
DS: Owen Frederick Kurra
DD: Grace Flora Kurra
DD: Amelia Eleanor Kurra
DS: Lucas Simon Kurra

Veronica & Oscar with Jackson, Owen, Grace, Amelia, and Lucas.


The night after the reunion and after coming home from work and putting Otto to bed, you and Stellan are reading in bed when he brings back up the fact that you both still would like to adopt internationally and that that can take quite a bit of time. You agree with him having known other people in the adoption community in online support groups who have waited years, you know you just got very lucky with Otto. You both agree to go to bed and place a call with your case worker and agency tomorrow about paper work considering the likely occurrence of a two to four year wait to be matched up with a child.

 

The next day on your lunch break you place a call to your agent, Koala Johnson, and she agrees it would be good to start working through the papers since it could take some time. Koala explains which countries they have current associations with and informs you that you and Stellan need to pick one to start the process. We chit chat a little more about how Otto is doing before hanging up and heading back to work that day, extremely excited.

 

That night you ask Stellan's oldest sibling and their spouse - Rufus and Tess - to watch Otto so you and Stellan can decide on which country you want to adopt from. After leaving Otto you go out and have a nice dinner together for the first time in awhile and savor it, making some small work talk before hitting to harder subjects. You discuss some of the places that intrigue you both, you make it down to your top three locations, Russia, Ethiopia and Portugal, eventually you end up deciding on Ethiopia.

 

Later that night you and Stellan send an email off to your agent to get the ball rolling on the process. The next day you pick up Otto from Stellan's sibling and feel refreshed and excited about your decision. Over the next couple of months, both you and Stellan work through the paper work, have your home visits and then hit the dry spell you knew would hit, but you fill it with exciting things including your first family vacation with Otto.

 

It takes some time for you to decide, but you end up picking Hershey Park in Pennsylvania. You and Stellan pick a less crowded week to take off, not around traditional holidays and then spend said week with your family making memories and taking a ton of photos.

 

Sadly, even after that you still haven't heard much back from your agent other then she's still looking to match you and Stellan with a child. You try not to feel disheartened by the time frame and continue to enjoy life as it is now. You get into a routine again with Stellan and Otto, and your monthly discussions with your case worker to check in until it's been about a year and a half since you put in the paper work and Otto is just a month away from turning three! You can't believe ho big they've gotten.

 

While shopping for themed thing for Otto's party, they're having a Super Heroes theme, you get a call from your agent. They've found a match! You ask agent if you can call them back in a minute as your out and not at a computer to recieve the file and they agree. You rush through check out and quickly call Stellan telling them they need to get home; you've been matched! You throw everything into the car and drive home and thankfully he is there as well and you call back your agent who informs you that you've been matched with a two year-old girl and you couldn't be more thrilled. You speak with her for another hour before she sends the file and you open it up, look through pictures and feel your heart melt. You and Stellan browse through it a little more before leaving to go pick up Otto from a day with Stellan's parents.

 

You get home and Stellan makes dinner and you bring up having a younger sibling to Otto and they seem excited by the idea which eases some of your tension and you call back your agent and talk through the process, you set up to go do a first visit in two months when you'll be off for Christmas break from work. You, Stellan, your mother and Otto fly off to Ethiopia and meet your precious baby, she has black hair and brown eyes, for the first time, she's adorable and down right perfect and you fall in love with her, at the end of the week and a half when you have to say goodbye, you can't imagine anything more painful, but your mother and Stellan help you get through it. You'll be returning for them soon enough.

 

As soon as your family gets home, you start to set up a nursery for your little one. You get Otto involved with painting and helping to set it all up and the next thing you know its been another month and you and Stellan travel back to Ethiopia to go pick up your little one for good, to take home, and when you arrive, Stellan's whole family, your mother and Otto are there with all the food, gifts and babysitting offers you could ever want; of course what they're all eagerly awaiting is news your glad to give as you inform them of the name you've chosen for your newest addition, Maggie Stella, are welcome joyfully into the Jansson-Reyners clan.


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It has been two years since you welcomed your last child and things have been going well, you're currently in waiting for your next adoption from Haiti, which you settled the paper work on about six months ago. However, before that, you moved the family into a new home considering your growing family you knew you guys would need a little more space, thankfully Stellan got a promotion the previous year to - Professor of Advanced Biology - which has increased your house revenue by tenfold. Which helped, you ended up moving to a new house.

 

It's late at night and you're currently organizing some files for work and are surprised when the phone rings and you see its your case worker, Koala, as she had already spoken to you earlier today to once more inform you that you were still on the waiting list to be matched up with a child, and it was looking like no movement would be coming soon at all. You pick up the phone to answer and ask your social worker why they're calling so late and she informs you she's got some interesting news and a proposal for you and Stellan it appears that the birth mother of Otto has fallen pregnant again which was a huge blow for her, she's in college and trying to make the most of her life. Once more she's looking to adopt out her baby, and she wanted to ask you and Stellan first since the baby would be Otto's half sibling and she knows it would go to a good home if you both raised the baby. You're stunned. You ask if you have time to think about the decision before giving an answer, you need to talk to Stellan and discuss it before you make any major decisions. Koala says that's fine, but informs you the quicker the better in circumstances like this so Jen would be able to have more time to find a different family if you pick not to adopt her baby. You inform her you understand and end the conversation.

 

You finish your work and then a few hours later, Stellan comes home and they just want to go to bed, but you inform them you need to talk. You sit down in your living room with him and inform them about the situation at hand, how Jen is pregnant again and would like your family to adopt the baby. At first Stellan is as shocked as you were, but they bring up how you both want a big family. You agree and bring up all the empty space in your new large home. You both decide to sleep on it and head to bed.

 

The next morning as you're bringing your kids to school and pre-school for the day, you bring up the idea of if they might like a new brother or sister and they respond individually. Otto was excited and Maggie was happy, and this makes you feel glad. You drop all the kids off and think about what your children said and head off to work, you have a pretty good day and your co-worker even brings in her new baby, and you coo over him, he's absolutely adorable and it makes your heart yearn for another child. Later that day, when you go home, you and Stellan seem to both agree, you'd like to adopt Jen's baby. You call back your social worker and tell her that you would like to adopt the baby and she is more than pleased to hear it and you start up the process for it once more, signing things, agreeing to pay for certain costs and such.

 

Only a few months later you speak with Jen to see how she is doing and how schooling is going for her, and its good, thankfully it seems her pregnancy will be in its latent months over the summer and it won't affect her school work, she also informs you that she's found out the baby's gender that day and the baby is a - girl. You're thrilled and quickly send off a text to Stellan to let them know before wishing birth mother well and heading off your lunch break to get back to work.

 

When you get home that day you surprise your mother with the news that she'll be a grandmother again and of course she's thrilled. Then you inform the children who still don't entirely all seem so sure, but when you explain that they can help you decorate the room. maggie is very excited, but Otto seems a little more hesitant so you try and get them involved, but soon enough the nursery is done and looks fantastic. All your children now seem excited, especially Otto.

 

As the pregnancy progresses, its time to start thinking about names and you and Stellan talk back and forth having some trouble, but in the end you find some names you like and can agree on for the baby's first name, Elodie, but have trouble finding a matching middle name, but decide to leave it be for now. It'll come to you later and its not worth fighting over with Stellan.

 

Of course, nothing can go as expected and on a hot, July afternoon, Jen goes into labor three weeks early and your baby arrives! They're 6 pounds and 2 ounces and 17 inches long. This time both you and Stellan were in the delivery room for the birth and it was magical, a little scary, but magical. Your children are in the waiting room with your mother and Stellan's parents, who're all very excited to meet their new family member, and so you bring out your red haired, hazel eyed bundle of joy and finally express their full name Elodie Sophia Jansson-Reyners. You decided to give them a middle name after Jen since she truly has given you such gifts in Otto and in your newest baby. As you seem swaddled in their blanket with your mother holding her and your other children watching them with wide, excited eyes you could not find yourself ever feeling this happy before and you're so grateful.


The Jansson-Reynders Family

DW: Eva Isobel Jansson [37] ~ red hair, brown eyes
DH: Stellan Otto Reynders [35] ~ black hair, hazel eyes

DAS: Otto Felix Jansson-Reynders [5] ~ red hair, hazel eyes
DAD: Maggie Stella Jansson-Reynders [4] ~ black hair, brown eyes
DAD: Elodie Sophia Jansson-Reynders [infant] ~ red hair, hazel eyes

Eva & Stellan with Otto, Maggie, and Elodie.

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Posted 18 February 2019 - 05:37 PM

Two years after we adopted Hanna, we filed paperwork to adopt another child from Colombia. Thankfully, the year prior, Ben was promoted to Chief Financial Officer of the University of Pennsylvania. His salary increased tenfold, which allowed us to move to a new house in West Chester, PA. We were excited to move outside of the metropolitan Philadelphia area and into the suburbs, since Milo and Hanna would be starting school soon. This house had five bedrooms, which was much more spacious than our last home.

 

One night, as I was organizing files for work, I answered a phone call from our adoption agent, Leilani Jones. Leilani told me that Ben and I were still on the wait list to adopt a child from Colombia, but that the process was moving slowly and our chances of adopting a child within the next year were slim. She then, however, shared that Milo's birth mother, Jessica Mary Pollux, had become pregnant again. Initially a teenager when she was pregnant with Milo, she was now in college and didn't know how to care for a baby with her tuition expenses. She had reached out to Leilani to see if Ben and I would be interested in adopting Milo's half-sibling. Ben and I discussed this possibility and agreed to ask Milo and Hanna their thoughts, since they were old enough to understand what another sibling would entail. Milo was excited at the prospect of being a big brother for the second time, whereas Hanna didn't seem to understand or care at the young age of three! Ben and I decided that adopting this baby was the right decision for us.

 

A few months later, we learned that we would be adopting a baby girl! Hanna seemed more excited at that news, especially when we let her and Milo help us decorate the new baby's nursery.

 

Ben and I agreed on a first name for our third child, Lilith, but struggled to find a middle name and put it off for a while.  Finally, on a hot July afternoon, our baby was born three weeks early at 6 pounds, 2 ounces and 17 inches. For the first time, Ben and I were in the delivery room for our child's birth, and although it was a scary experience, it was also magical to be there when our little girl came into the world. We decided to give Lilith the middle name Jessamine in honor of Jessica, her birth mother.

 

The Peeters Family

~Philadelphia, PA~

 

DH: Benedict Humphrey "Ben" [37]

Columbia University & University of Pennsylvania

​Chief Financial Officer, University of Pennsylvania 

DW: Finlay Cameron, née Stendhal [37]

Columbia University & New York University

Clinical Psychologist

 

DAS: Milo Atticus [5]

DAD: Hanna Bernadette [3]

DAD: Lilith Jessamine [0]

 

Ben & Finlay with Milo, Hanna, & Lilith

 

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The Peeters Family

~Albany, NY~

 

DH: Byron Maxwell [73]

Cornell University

Retired Attorney

DW: Georgiana Violette, née Danforth [72]

Cornell University

Retired Paralegal

 

DS: Amos Lemuel [48]

DS: Thaddeus Alonzo "Thad" [46]

DD: Millicent Eliza "Millie" [42]

DS: Phineas Josiah [40]

DD: Cecily Maude [38]

DS: Benedict Humphrey "Ben" [37]

 

Byron & Georgiana with Amos, Thad, Millie, Phineas, Cecily, & Ben

 

~~~

 

The Peeters Family

~Ithaca, NY~

 

DH: Amos Lemuel [48]

Princeton University

Economics Professor, Cornell University

DW: Louise Dorothea, née Mulberry [46]

Sarah Lawrence College

Stay-at-Home-Mother

 

DS: Henry Nathaniel [15]

DS: Duncan Tobias [12]

DS: Colin Frederick [8]

DS: Simon George [6]

 

Amos & Louise with Henry, Duncan, Colin, & Simon

 

~~~

 

The Peeters Family

~Silicon Valley, CA~

 

​DH: Thaddeus Alonzo [46]

Stanford University

Quantitative Analyst, Google 

DW: Cora Beatrix, née Dunn [44]

Stanford University

Attorney

 

DS: Emmett Reed [13]

DD/DD: Lucy Caroline / Fiona Margaret [11]

DD: Gabriella Faith "Ella" [9]

DD: Josephine Charlotte "Josie" [8]

DD: Madeleine Tess [5]

 

Thad & Cora with Emmett, Lucy, Fiona, Ella, Josie, & Madeleine

 

~~~

 

The St. George Family

~Columbus, OH~

 

DW: Millicent Eliza "Millie," née Peeters [42]

Georgetown University

Registered Nurse

DH: Calvin Silas "Cal" [45]

Carnegie Mellon University

Stock Analyst

 

DD: Natalie Beatrice [10]

DD: Amelia Violet [7]

DS: Walker Philip [4]

 

Millie & Cal with Natalie, Amelia, & Walker

 

~~~

 

The Peeters Family

~Annapolis, MD~

 

DH: Phineas Josiah [40]

University of Virginia

CEO of Pharmaceutical Company

DW: Eloise Mae, née Bancroft [38]

University of Maryland

Public Relations Executive

 

DS: Quentin Elijah [9]

DD: Sloane Arabella [5]

DD: Olivia Zoe [3]

 

Phineas & Eloise with Quentin, Sloane, & Olivia 

 

~Athens, Georgia~

 

ex-DW: Hazel Winifred Montgomery [41]

 

DS: Harrison Jack [14]

 

Phineas & Hazel with Harrison

 

~~~

 

The Hunt Family

~Los Angeles, CA~

 

DW: Cecily Maude, née Peeters [38]

Dartmouth College

Movie Producer

DH: Arthur Sebastian [42]

University of California, Los Angeles

Anesthesiologist

 

DD: Eleanor Maisie [7]

DD: Addison Claire "Addie" [5]

DD: Isabel Daisy [2]

 

Cecily & Arthur with Eleanor, Addie, & Isabel







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