After school and work we made a quick trip into the city to attend a kind of meet and greet with Gladney families. It was a lot of fun and Madison and Sage enjoyed meeting some new kids. Madison was especially glad to meet Malak! We had read tons of great stuff about The Gladney Center for Adoption when we were in the decision stage and felt good about choosing them as our adoption agency. But meeting actual Gladney families and hearing their stories really added a boost to our already confident decision. One mom was telling us how much she loved Gladney because their philosophy is "family for life" and they are available for any circumstance throughout an adopted person's life.
I am terrible with names, but met one man who introduced himself as a Gladney kid. I didn't quite get it at first, but what he was saying is that he was adopted through Gladney when he was just a toddler and he is now 34 years old. We met beautiful children from Russia, China, the US and Ethiopia tonight. Go Gladney!
3 comments:
It was great to meet you and your family! Madison was totaly fine, honestly, Malak always seems to like it rough- apparently that is much funnier to him. :) Hopefully we can keep in touch and I will definitely be following your journey!
Nikki, thanks for your comment! It's nice to see I'm not the only adoptive mother that struggles with the big questions. I look forward to following your journey. :)
Nikki! We are sorry we missed the Gladney event.. Josh instead took Silas to the Casady vs Heritage Hall football game. :)
So, something we learned pretty quickly- especially from the wealthy Casady environment- is that the term "Gladney kid" is a real term! We have learned that it is kind of prestigous to be a "Gladney kid" or "Gladney baby" When we were telling some of the Casady families which agency we used, they were all familiar with Gladney and started to tell us the names of some other "Gladney babies" who were now high school students at Casady. Isn't that funny and great!
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