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Good News - With Love From Jay and Staci

Thursday, March 07, 2013

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TheBright.com™ News

By Rita Mailheau

This week I was all set to write an article about free medical clinics in Tampa FL, but when I started drilling down to the finer details, I just couldn’t move forward. So, I put it aside and continued searching for something else, something to hit my heart.

One idea I’ve been mulling over from my first days with My Bright is an article about adoption. Inspired by a calendar that the San Diego Chargers sent a couple of years back, I have become increasingly aware of the importance of family in helping a child reach his full potential. The Chargers’ calendar featured a different set of siblings each month. These kids want parents but they also want to stay together. Each month a feature photo showed brothers and sisters horsing around on the practice field with a player from the football team. It was hard to tell who was having more fun, the kids or the players. The originators of this calendar included a little bit about the interests of each child, and some of that child’s lifetime aspirations.

So I made up my mind this week to talk about adoption.

To get things started, I googled adoption agencies and started checking out various groups based in Tampa. With each site I found a caring staff and a loving mission. Then something unexpected happened.

As I mindlessly continued, I happened upon the link for jayandstaci and immediately my heart melted. This wasn’t an agency at all. This was a couple.

Jay and Staci have been married five years. They live in San Francisco and have put together a beautiful website to let a special birth mother know how well they will care for the child they have the privilege to raise.

I have a close friend who had a son when she was very young. Unable to care for the baby, she gave him up for adoption at the time of his birth. Four years ago he contacted her. Fast forward thirty years, he is grown and married to a wonderful woman and has children of his own. I can’t begin to tell you what it means to her that he reached out. He has a strong place in her life now. She has made peace with the situation. Her only regret was not having seen him grow up from a baby to a man.

Jays and Staci want to give a home to a child in need, but in an open adoption situation. That means that the birth mother will be able to see her child throughout the child’s life. The mother who entrusts her baby into Jay and Staci’s loving hands has been given a gift.

Jay and Staci are remarkably open about themselves, and how they plan to nurture their child. For anyone who has had a tough day and just wants to experience the beauty of unconditional love, just visit their website. You will melt, too.

Famous People Who Were Adopted

I thought it might interest readers to hear about some of the famous people who have been adopted: John J. Audubon, Steve Jobs, Doctor Ruth, George Washington Carver, James Michener the author, Moses, Nelson Mandela, Nat King Cole and Faith Hill are just a few of the accomplished, contributing people whose lives benefited from being raised in a loving adoptive family.
Famous Adoptive Parents

Now here are the names of some famous adoptive parents: Ben Stein, George Lucas, Alfre Woodard, Hugh Jackman, Walt and Lily Disney, Stephen Spielberg, Erma Bombeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Willie Mays, Richard King Mellon, Magic Johnson, Dan Marino and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson.

Jay and Staci and Adoption

Jay and his sister were both adopted, in case you were wondering. He knows firsthand the importance of a loving family. Staci has some cousins who were adopted, too.

One thing that Jay and Staci’s child will enjoy is the stability. No parent is perfect, but this couple is likeminded on the importance of love, forgiveness, lots of laughter, and an occasional cry. That’s the way to keep life sweet.

I admire these two kindhearted, smart people for their bold resolve to see this magnificent dream become a reality. If you know of someone who would benefit, and who wouldn’t, from two such loving parents, you can contact them through their website.
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