adoption testimony - Lacey
Lacey and Tyler were a joy to serve! She brought extra empathy and sensitivity into their adoption journey, as she is an adoptee herself! I asked her to share some of her thoughts, from her unique position of occupying two parts of the adoption triad, adoptee and adoptive mom. Thank you, Lacey, for sharing your own unique story, as well as your journey to your beautiful son! I myself was adopted as an infant through private adoption. My birth mother had my sister when she was just 16, and had me when she was 18. She was young and not ready to be a parent. My adoptive parents were married and had tried to conceive for over 8 years and it just wasn’t happening for them. My birth mother and my adoptive mother worked together for a short amount of time. My birth mother would have my adoptive mother babysit my birth half sister, and she was testing the waters to see if she wanted to have my adoptive mom adopt my sister. (Me and my birth sister, me on the right) (The two