Category: Adoption & Foster Care
Adoption and Foster Care posts
Why We Celebrate Gotcha Day
Monday morning is Paxton’s Gotcha Day so I wanted to share some thoughts on why and how we celebrate. November is National Adoption Month and I will be doing a series of posts to talk about our experience with adoption. A Gotcha Day may or may not be a term that you have heard before. … Continue reading Why We Celebrate Gotcha Day
Adoption and Foster Care Loss
This month of November is National Adoption Month. We love to celebrate with our family and friends by spreading awareness about adoption and foster care. This month has been a bit different for us. We have one family that is in the process of reunifung their foster son with his birth parents and a family… Continue reading Adoption and Foster Care Loss
Paxton’s Adoption Story
November is National Adoption Month and October is the King Family adoption month and today… well today is Paxton’s Gotcha Day. Three years ago the New Orleans Family Court ordered that we be forever a family. It was almost a year and three months to the day that we took legal custody of him that… Continue reading Paxton’s Adoption Story
To Peyton on His Fifth Birthday
To my Oldest Son Peyton… Today you are five. FIVE. I am not even sure how we got here. People tell you it goes so fast and it always sounded cliche to me but here I am with a five year old and I feel like ten minutes ago you were a baby. I have… Continue reading To Peyton on His Fifth Birthday
To Paxton on His Fourth Birthday
Dear Paxton: Birthday’s are a special time in our family as you know. It’s a time for celebration, but it is also a time for reflecting. It’s hard to think about the fact that the day you were born we didn’t even know you existed. You were a dream born into our hearts but… Continue reading To Paxton on His Fourth Birthday
We Five Kings…
Welcome to my blog! I thought that it would be best to start this off my introducing myself and my family. I am Tiffany or Tippy as I am affectionately known by many. I am a southern girl at heart and was born in raised in a suburb of New Orleans. All my life I… Continue reading We Five Kings…