This is a personal and touching story of one women’s journey to find a child. Tamra spent 8 years pursuing a child through fertility clinics without success. Her body would not cooperate and give her the child she wanted. The need for a child was so overwhelming they turned to adoption. Their adoption journey from start to finish took three years, while reading the story you will learn of the many pitfalls they had to overcome. The story has a happy ending with the adoption of their daughter.

God Made Us a Family God Made Us a Family is a children's book about adoption. The adoption of a child is one of the greatest blessings a family can receive. This story illustrates that God has a plan for each child created by Him and that adoption is exciting and a natural step in becoming a family. This story also explains that adopted children are loved and protected by their parents and are part of a family that will love them forever.

God Made Us a Family God Made Us a Family is a children's book about adoption. The adoption of a child is one of the greatest blessings a family can receive. This story illustrates that God has a plan for each child created by Him and that adoption is exciting and a natural step in becoming a family. This story also explains that adopted children are loved and protected by their parents and are part of a family that will love them forever.

This is a story about adoption. It is about direct adoption and family adoption. It also involves keeping a secret from one of those who is adopted. It forms a family secret that defines and destroys as it gets passed along. It is the story of my mother and her sister who get cast out into the cold and are taken in by family. However, they are split up by the family and live in two separate worlds. My mother is taken to California and never told the secret. Dorothy, mom’s sister, knows she is adopted and knows she has a sister. My mother is raised as the only child of the Haughts. She knows she was born in Ohio but knows nothing else. This is the way Norden and Mabel want it to be. They would be the only ones knowing the family secret. Mabel is paranoid that someone would find out and attempt to take Zona away from them. After mother learns the truth she takes on that paranoia. She lives and breathes it and it eventually takes over her life. Everything is done to protect that secret. Yet, when I turn 17 she decides it is time to tell me “the secret” and to take me back to meet my real aunt and uncle and cousins. This is a story of how the family secret transcends time and touches many lives. It is a story of how people react differently when told the secret. My cousins David, Barbara, and Joe are amazed that I just found out about them a few months before meeting them. They have known about me all their lives. They knew who I was and where I was and what all was going on. For me, all of that was shut out. I had to ask them tons of questions to find out about them. Even when doing my final research for this book I was still asking questions to all that were still alive. I am glad I went when I did because death would take the ones who knew the answers. Imagine if I would just now be finding all of this out at the ripe old age of 60? There would now be only a handful of people left to tell me and they would only have part of the knowledge. This secret has led me on many adventures. I am glad that I know the secret but sure wish it had come about differently. But then I would not have had to write this book. So welcome to Our Family Secret, My Mother’s Lie.

This is a story about adoption. It is about direct adoption and family adoption. It also involves keeping a secret from one of those who is adopted. It forms a family secret that defines and destroys as it gets passed along. It is the story of my mother and her sister who get cast out into the cold and are taken in by family. However, they are split up by the family and live in two separate worlds. My mother is taken to California and never told the secret. Dorothy, mom’s sister, knows she is adopted and knows she has a sister. My mother is raised as the only child of the Haughts. She knows she was born in Ohio but knows nothing else. This is the way Norden and Mabel want it to be. They would be the only ones knowing the family secret. Mabel is paranoid that someone would find out and attempt to take Zona away from them. After mother learns the truth she takes on that paranoia. She lives and breathes it and it eventually takes over her life. Everything is done to protect that secret. Yet, when I turn 17 she decides it is time to tell me “the secret” and to take me back to meet my real aunt and uncle and cousins. This is a story of how the family secret transcends time and touches many lives. It is a story of how people react differently when told the secret. My cousins David, Barbara, and Joe are amazed that I just found out about them a few months before meeting them. They have known about me all their lives. They knew who I was and where I was and what all was going on. For me, all of that was shut out. I had to ask them tons of questions to find out about them. Even when doing my final research for this book I was still asking questions to all that were still alive. I am glad I went when I did because death would take the ones who knew the answers. Imagine if I would just now be finding all of this out at the ripe old age of 60? There would now be only a handful of people left to tell me and they would only have part of the knowledge. This secret has led me on many adventures. I am glad that I know the secret but sure wish it had come about differently. But then I would not have had to write this book. So welcome to Our Family Secret, My Mother’s Lie.

This is a story about adoption. It is about direct adoption and family adoption. It also involves keeping a secret from one of those who is adopted. It forms a family secret that defines and destroys as it gets passed along. It is the story of my mother and her sister who get cast out into the cold and are taken in by family. However, they are split up by the family and live in two separate worlds. My mother is taken to California and never told the secret. Dorothy, mom’s sister, knows she is adopted and knows she has a sister. My mother is raised as the only child of the Haughts. She knows she was born in Ohio but knows nothing else. This is the way Norden and Mabel want it to be. They would be the only ones knowing the family secret. Mabel is paranoid that someone would find out and attempt to take Zona away from them. After mother learns the truth she takes on that paranoia. She lives and breathes it and it eventually takes over her life. Everything is done to protect that secret. Yet, when I turn 17 she decides it is time to tell me “the secret” and to take me back to meet my real aunt and uncle and cousins. This is a story of how the family secret transcends time and touches many lives. It is a story of how people react differently when told the secret. My cousins David, Barbara, and Joe are amazed that I just found out about them a few months before meeting them. They have known about me all their lives. They knew who I was and where I was and what all was going on. For me, all of that was shut out. I had to ask them tons of questions to find out about them. Even when doing my final research for this book I was still asking questions to all that were still alive. I am glad I went when I did because death would take the ones who knew the answers. Imagine if I would just now be finding all of this out at the ripe old age of 60? There would now be only a handful of people left to tell me and they would only have part of the knowledge. This secret has led me on many adventures. I am glad that I know the secret but sure wish it had come about differently. But then I would not have had to write this book. So welcome to Our Family Secret, My Mother’s Lie.

Shanae Watson never understood why her family had fallen apart. Her relationship with her estranged father caused a void that only sadness and doubt could fill. When Shanae’s emotions spiral out of control, she makes a decision that changes her life forever. Suddenly, family secrets are uncovered and Shanae has to make some hard decisions about who to believe, and what to do.Ms. Watson (Shanae’s mother) made the mistake of being born. After being wrongfully placed in foster care as a child, she was sexually abused by her foster father and nearly 20years later still struggles with the abuse. Can Ms. Watson overcome her own struggles long enough to keep her daughter from making the same mistakes? Is Shanae able to overcome her own obstacles and her mother's?

Shanae Watson never understood why her family had fallen apart. Her relationship with her estranged father caused a void that only sadness and doubt could fill. When Shanae’s emotions spiral out of control, she makes a decision that changes her life forever. Suddenly, family secrets are uncovered and Shanae has to make some hard decisions about who to believe, and what to do.Ms. Watson (Shanae’s mother) made the mistake of being born. After being wrongfully placed in foster care as a child, she was sexually abused by her foster father and nearly 20years later still struggles with the abuse. Can Ms. Watson overcome her own struggles long enough to keep her daughter from making the same mistakes? Is Shanae able to overcome her own obstacles and her mother's?

In this interactive new book, Stacie Cahill shows teenagers and young adults how to overcome the void in life and how to cope with feelings that may cause pain during the growing up years. The reader will become involved in the book by answering a series of questions concerning personal issues and adoption. The questions will guide adoptees as they conquer identity issues that are so common during young adult years. This inspiring book is designed to encourage adoptees by boosting confidence and raising self awareness, both of which are necessary components in the development of a healthy identity.

Has your life been touched by adoption?? Have you or a friend adopted a child?? "Who Am I?" is a children's picture book that will be a helpful resource in providing a child with a complete understanding of the miracle of adoption. Each child will feel special and more secure as a result of learning what each letter in adoption represents. Children at a young age have so many questions regarding their identities and the circumstances surrounding each adoption experience. They typically want to know why their birthparents could not keep them. They want to know why they were adopted into their families. The pages in this book are bright and colorful, which help create a cheerful and fun tone, in which a child feels good when learning about adoption. The child will better understand God's love in building families through adoption. Children will learn to celebrate adoption, and will view adoption as another wonderful way, in which to build a family.

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I found your book, Who Am I to be very well written and the illustrations were just great. I especially liked how the book talks about God's role in building families through adoption. Who Am I is a must read for anyone who has been adopted or is considering adoption.
Rodger Bingham
Former Contestant
Survivor II
The Australian Outback