A TREASURED BOND WITH A FATHER
Published June 2013 By The Cradle Staff “I remember being into ballet when I was really little,” Cradle baby Julie Kaczmarek recalls. “Dad sat everyone down in the living room to watch me give a ‘performance,’ and he was the first to clap.”Julie’s brother Andrew golfed with his Dad in the 2011 Cradle Classic. Nowadays, […]
ELENA’S ADOPTION STORY – MOM AND DAUGHTER, BOTH ADOPTED FROM THE CRADLE
Published July 2011 By The Cradle Staff When Sarah Borland Bellini was a child, one of her school projects was to make a journal about her family and her dreams for the future. In one of those books she wrote, “When I grow up I’m going to be a golf pro and adopt three children.” […]
A FAMILY FOR BABY SOFIA
Published September 2012 By Shelbie Bostedt, Intern For Tammi and Marc Kotarski, meeting Sofia was love at first sight. Baby Sofia was born on April 17 with Down syndrome and a heart defect. At one month she had cardiac surgery, and on May 28 she was discharged from the hospital to a foster family because […]
AN OPEN ADOPTION STORY FROM A FAMILY WHO ADOPTED THROUGH THE CRADLE
An open adoption story from a family who adopted through The Cradle
LESSONS FROM NINA
Published October 2012 By The Cradle Staff When Becky and Rich Carter brought six-week-old Nina home from The Cradle in the spring of 2009, they were “surrounded by the newness of it all,” Becky recalls. As first-time parents, they were more focused on attending to the needs of their infant daughter than mulling over the […]
MAKING THE CONNECTION
I was adopted through the Cradle in 1979 by two very loving and wonderful adoptive parents. Although my life with them was happy and full, there were always questions I had that no one could answer except my birth family. I always knew that finding my birth family would help clear up my own personal […]
