Counting their blessings: Tim and Ann Wachter have a lot to be thankful for on Thanksgiving as they watch their daughter Jill, 2, kiss their recent surprise, Sandra Victoria, in Franklin on Thursday. Among the 15 or so friends and relatives who gathered at their Franklin home for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday were two new additions — daughters Jill Margaret Qiao, whom they adopted in February in China and who turned 2 on Thursday, and Sandra Victoria, who was born to them on Nov. 3.
A rewarding option: Adoptions of foreign children to parents in the United States have increased every year from 1992, when there were fewer than 6,500, to 2003 when there were more than 21,500, according to statistics from the U.S. State Department.
Family opens home, hearts to five children: Greg and Deana Maurer of rural Oronogo have many reasons to be thankful this week—nine reasons to be exact. Already parents of four children, approximately 10 years ago, the Maurers began exploring if international or domestic adoptions was a viable way to expand their family. Since the initial decision the couple have welcomed five children into their family
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