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The most important thing you will do in preparing for the complicated adoption process is to gather and research the most current information available. Adoption is Extremely Complicated. Don’t do it (without…
First time I have Halloween with my Amarican family I have so much fun. I was a princess in the Halloween. In Russia I never had Halloween, before, but now I…
Two of Emily's sisters; Natalia Anatolievna Moisieva (Now Analise Natasha Simmons) with her sister, Lidia Anatolievna Moisieva at their orphanage in Yekaterinovka, Promorsky Krai, Russia. The first time I signed papers…
Emily with her Dad, John, and Grandfather, Bill, the first time they met. Orphinige kids been mean to me. They told me don’t go to Amarica. Kids from orphinge say that Amarican…
There almost always seems to be a trigger when my wife and I see bad behavior in our adopted children. When two of them get milk, they turn disobedient obstinate argumentative feral. Feral…
I had always understood empathy to be trying to imagine myself in someone else’s shoes, and then trying to understand how it would feel. I got it half right. Empathy was the greatest…
Emily telling Lydia goodbye My family came to visit me then I was in the orphinige. Also after when I was adopted I spent time with my sister Annie and my…
The Moiseyeva/Koshkina family lived in half of this duplex in Fralovka, Russia. This is where Maria Anatolievna Moiseyeva and Vitaly Anatolievich Moiseyev were born. Recently we changed things in this document to…
Finding Faith Finding faith, for me, never comes easy. Maybe it's true… things are always in the last place you look. While I was raised in an active Christian home and…
This is too good for Facebook! If you can’t see anything below, click here to become a registered user of JohnMSimmons.com! One of my favorite photos of my daughters Emily was seven and Annie…
This is too good for Facebook! If you can’t see anything below, click here to become a registered user of JohnMSimmons.com! It warmed my heart to watch history repeat itself With the difficulties that…
This is too good for Facebook! If you can’t see anything below, click here to become a registered user of JohnMSimmons.com! My girls, holding hands. Some things never change This is what I saw…