Special Needs Mama

 This is me. I’m a mother of 3 adopted children special needs children.I was born with a congenital heart defect. My heart defect made it risky for me to carry children. It would have been risky for the child I was carrying also. I was 27 years old when my husband of 25 years and I, fostered our first child. Our oldest child was 2 years old when he was placed in our home as a foster child. Parental rights were terminated two years later. On July 25th 2001the adoption was finalized. I was a month away from turning 30 years old, when we got the call for our second foster child. The child was born at 28 weeks and stayed in the NICU. The child came home with us as a foster child on December 2nd 2002. It wasn’t until 14 years later that our youngest child. I had just turned 45 years old when the youngest came into our home. This child was not a foster child. He was the newborn of my youngest sister. All 3 of theses children are special needs and have interesting histories and stories. I will share their stories individually and together as a family throughout my blog.