My Mommy Has No Milk: A Story About Adop

Terrell found himself as a first-time parent of infants, in the middle of adoption. Facing multiple questions of not only how to be a new parent and father, but how am I going to explain to these children that they are adopted and what that means. He found himself in a search for direction at the library, multiple seminars and educational classes and found them to be of little help. The one fact they repeated that was helpful was to always use the proper terms and keep them short and simple. Having a ranch and visiting frequently with the children he found them to be enamored with the cattle and the experiences of raising them. Every night before his kids went to bed, he made up stories and they would continue the stories every day at bedtime. One night he decided to make up a story about a baby calf whose mother couldn't take care of him and she went through the pasture looking for another Mommy to adopt her newborn baby. Upon request by his boys he found himself repeating the story on a nightly basis. When his boys were old enough to ask why they had different skin, why their eyes were a different color and why they didn't look the same as he did he found himself with a simple answer, because you are adopted. They instantly related it to the story and never questioned what adoption was, his love for them, the love of their birth mother and the circumstances as to why they were adopted. Because of their response and total comfort with adoption he decided he should write and share the story with other adoptive parents.