My husband and I are the proud parents of five children: one birth son and four who we adopted. Would I adopt children that were born drug addicted, mentally challenged, children with ADHD and Fetal Alcohol Disorder? And, knowing what I know now, I say yes.

It has been an exciting year for Nightlight Christian Adoptions of South Carolina. As you know in April of 2009 Carolina Hope was acquired by Nightlight of California.

We would like to thank all of you who voted for Nightlight in the Chase Community Giving Campaign. The votes have been counted, and Nightlight did not finish in the top 100.

Nightlight is collecting photos from our adoptive families for an online Christmas Card Family Album.

I’m writing to let you know that we have learned of an infant boy waiting for adoption from China on the special needs list. He is 10 months old and has cleft lip and palate.

Merry Christmas! If you would like to have your Christmas photo shared, please send us an email (KathrynD@nightlight.org) granting your permission to put the photo on our web site, along with your digital photo.

This morning, Nightlight passed the 700 votes mark in the Chase Community Giving Campaign that I blogged about 2 days ago.

Testimony of Bones Anthony, a Ugandan Christian orphaned as an infant. When my twin brother and I were 3 months old, our mother came home very drunk and wanting to commit suicide. She took the pair of us, her youngest kids, and headed for the river. Fortunately, other people followed her and rescued us.

You can help Nightlight compete to win a $25,000 donation from Chase Bank – simply by voting for us on Facebook!