One lucky Goodies for Mom readers will win an Artistry® essentials makeup kit (value=$59.00) courtesy of the Health and Beauty Zone.
When I received my sample of the Artistry® essentials makeup kit, I was excited to try all these great new products. I'm actual horrible about wearing makeup. I'm into work by 7:00am so time is not a luxury I have in my mornings and make up is usually the first thing to go, especially when I became a mom. I'm trying to get better and Artistry® essen... Read Full Story
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc. announced the voluntary recall of more than 2.1 million Stork Craft drop-side cribs, including about 147,000 Stork Craft drop-side cribs with the Fisher-Price logo. The recall involves approximately 1,213,000 units distributed in the United States.
Parents and caregivers are urged to immediately stop using the recalled cribs. Consumers should contact Stork Craft to receive a free repair kit... Read Full Story
by Stacey Doss Doherty of Stacey Doss Doherty PR
I am single, 45, and after years of failed fertility treatments and a painful divorce, I decided to take that wild leap and adopt a baby on my own. Vanessa was born on June 13, 2008, and taking her into my life as my daughter at 24 hours old was the best thing I have ever done, by far. Words cannot describe the day she walked for the first time, or the day she said “Mama.”
My story did not come without its challenges (see Operation Vanessa);... Read Full Story
by Singer/Song Writer Donna Hill
Born with glaucoma, given up for adoption, blind by twelve, a high school drop-out ... all spelled long odds for an African-American kid in New York City. But, the odds-makers didn’t know Dennis Holston. Dennis (31, Manhattan) boot-strapped his way to a successful life as a computer teacher and artist recruiter. He mentors two teens through Mentoring USA and I Mentor. Now in his third year at the helm of the volunteer-run, nonprofit Performing Arts Division ... Read Full Story
by Karen Maunu of Love Without Boundaries Foundation
The Rainbow Twins” (named because their two given names of Hong and Cai combine to make up the Chinese word for “rainbow”) entered this world weighing one pound each. They were abandoned in front of an orphanage by extremely poor migrant workers who had no way to care for their daughters’ emergency medical needs. The orphanage director contacted LWB immediately, and we were able to get the girls moved to a top children’s hospital in Shang... Read Full Story
Goodies for Mom is helping celebrate National Adoption Month all this week with stories celebrating familes being brought together by adoption. You'll hear the touching stories from those who have been personally touched by adoption.
November is set aside to raise awareness about the adoption of children and youth from foster care, and we are trying to do are part in raising awareness. This year's theme,"You don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent."
The Goodies for Mom&n... Read Full Story
by Renee Hoyt
My husband and I are awaiting a match for a domestic newborn adoption. Like many other potential adoptive parents, we don’t know how long this could take. However, we have been here before. Our adoption application was approved to seek a birth parent match 8 months ago, and we were selected by a potential birth mother only 4 months after that. However, she changed her mind when she delivered and decided to parent her baby.
Now that we’ve gone through a wait before, and lived ... Read Full Story
by Amy Jewett Sampson
I like to say that I have a multicultural family. After years of struggling with infertility, my husband and I traveled to China to adopt our daughter who was 12 months old at the time. Six months prior, our biological daughter was born and one year after returning from China, our biological son was born. Three kids in less than a year and a half. Life was crazy!
Our adoption journey was put on hold during the summer of 2003 because of the SARS epidemic. When the cou... Read Full Story
by John Paul Engel
I was born with severe brain damage. The doctors said I would never walk and that I would never lead a normal life. I was also born addicted to drugs. Because of all of these problems the State of Iowa deemed me unadoptable. That ment that I wasn't going to a home with a mother and father, brothers and sisters, I was going to spend the rest of my life in an institution - Glenwood to be exact.
Fortunately, there wasn't room for me in the institution so I came to the Engel... Read Full Story
by Teena Gomez
My husband and I adopted our son from Texas in November 2007. It was the happy ending to a long battle with infertility, because we'd done six IUI’s, six IVF’s and even tried donor sperm and donor embryos over a four-year period. Despite all of that suffering, we were happy to have gone through because it put us in the right place at the right time to adopt our son, Nathaniel. He was truly meant to be a part of our family.
We signed up with a San Antonio adoption agency in ... Read Full Story
