Belles-Silcock Family Life

For some of our children, our family is their first family. Prior to joining our family they may have lived in hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages or group homes. Other children have had multiple family experiences. Some have been abusive and other have simply "not worked out." Many of the boys joined our family through the state foster care system, other through international adoptions, still others through disrupted adoptions, finally a few through private adoptions. Our children have come from all over the world with many different life experiences, as well as, a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. It is our job then, as their forever mom and dad, to bring all of these strangers together and form a well-bonded and loving family.

Jim and I want our children to understand that they are part of a family now and forever. To deepen that understanding we have developed our own family traditions that always incorporate positive traditions that the boys bring to this family from their family of birth or other previous placements. We also use family photo albums, home movies, and this web site to strengthen the family bond.

This section will give you a glimpse of our family life in pictures. We hope you will see that despite our size and our various adoption stories, we are a family in the true definition of the word. Information about each of the boys can be found by clicking their name on the home page.
 

Christmas 2007