ADOPTION DAY is finally here. On January 30th my husband Dr.
Philip Terry-Smith adopted our 17 year old LGBT son.
When I became HIV positive I thought to myself, “I will
never have a child”. I cried so much over this every time I thought about
it. Every time I saw a child with their parent
playing, walking hand in hand, giggling, just being a family it hurt, it hurt
me to my soul.
When my husband asked me to marry him, I said yes but I have
provisions. I stated that I would like
to have children. I made a command decision
in my life that I would have kids. I
also said that I need a man that would want to have children with me. My husband (THANK THE GODS) agreed that
children would be a part of our future.
I can honestly say our son has come such a long way being
with us. When he first came to us he was
15 years old he was not what I expected a 15 year old to be. But then I had to realize I did not raise
this child; so I made it my goal to make him a little more refined and to bring
more structure and discipline into his life.
He has a story and I’m not the one to tell it. So I will briefly say that this young man has
been through the ringer. But now that he
has a loving and supportive family he is stronger than before.
Phil, my son and I went to court and we have legally made
him ours. He will forever be ours and I wouldn’t
want it any other way
