OUR FIRST YEAR WITH AIDEN – THE BELL FAMILY
Published August 2013 By The Cradle Staff We had been married five years and had been through a few years of frustrating infertility treatment without success. We had always discussed no matter we wanted to parent together and sought out our adoption options. We had two sets of friends who had recently used The Cradle […]
THE LOFTUS FAMILY ADOPTION STORY
A Thousand Words…. Although pictures are worth a thousand words, a thousand words are not enough to show our happiness and love we have for each other. We will be grateful to The Cradle and Daniel’s biological mother for the rest of our lives. Sincerely, Daniel & Linda
GRATEFUL FOR GABE
Published January 2015 By Samantha Spengler, Intern Gabe Studer was a vampire this Halloween. In school he checked out vampire books at the library, his favorite class of the day. He even wore his glow-in-the-dark fangs on his visit to the Cradle. At seven years old, Gabe is a bright and happy little kid. Collette Rand […]
AMAZING LOVE: THE TAYLORS’ ADOPTION STORY
Published September 2013 By The Cradle Staff When Angela and Jason Taylor decided to adopt, they already had some insight into the process. Angela was an adopted person herself, placed in 1970, but as was typical at the time her adoption had been a closed one. She has never met her birth family. The Taylors […]
THE PETRICKS’ ADOPTION STORY
Bringing Home Teddy By The Cradle Staff According to Stacey Petrick, the hardest part of meeting her future son Theodore was coming back to the United States without him after their first trip. Already attached and knowing that he would eventually be part of her family, she thought, “he’s way over there and I’m way […]
THE DUNN FAMILY ADOPTION STORY
Since Roger’s arrival in 2005, our lives have grown in many ways with tremendous joy and a true sense of family that adoption has been able to provide. This life changing experience which has brought us true happiness has gone well beyond what we had even imagined. Robin and Christopher Dunn
