No matter how open our relationship is, Kami and I will never have the relationship we would have had. I will never be her only mother. I have been present in her life from the beginning; I am less than two miles down the road, but in some ways, we might as well be on different planets.

As a Middle School teacher I always ended my school year with poetry because my students were always squirrelly. For me, poetry was exciting to teach the final weeks of school. The grass was green, …

Grown in My Heart is in the midst of some BIG changes and we are looking for the following writers:

Foster Care
Adoptee
First Parent
Same Sex Adoption
Craft
Food
Culture
Infertility
Adoption social worker
Adoption Health

At this point these are not paid positions but …

I found myself telling my doctor that I could not get this woman I have never met off my mind, and wishing I could just give her a hug and let her play with her children, even if just for a little while every year.