#219: Elsie’s Adoption Story

A Beautiful Mess Podcast

Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week we're doing an episode that has been requested for years, and Elsie is finally feel ready to share it. This is Elsie's adoption story episode. She is going to share the story of how she ended up adopting two children from China.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the A Beautiful Mus podcast, Your Cozy Comfort Listen.
0:09.2	This week we're doing an episode that has been requested for years and I finally feel ready to share it.
0:14.1	This is our adoption story episode.
0:17.0	I'm going to share the story of how we ended up adopting two children from China.
0:21.0	Yeah.
0:22.0	I'm excited. Yeah. Yeah. I'm excited. Yeah, so I'll see. I can't believe we haven't done this before.
0:27.0	Mm-hmm. I know why because it's scary. It's scary for me. It's just kind of a big topic.
0:32.8	She thinks she's going to piss someone off. I don't understand that, honestly.
0:37.0	I just...
0:38.0	Every story of your children is different, you know, whether it's adoption or birth or whatever.
0:43.0	They're all different, like, I don't know.
0:45.1	That is like the greatest takeaway, Emma just said it, like to remember that all adoptions are
0:52.3	different. And I'm not trying to speak for anyone else but I do kind of
0:56.4	think I'm excited to share our story because obviously it's like one of the
1:00.8	greatest things that's ever happened in my life.
1:03.4	Yeah, I feel ready now finally.
1:05.8	I'm gonna start with a disclaimer.
1:07.4	You had to know.
1:08.4	You had to know.
1:09.4	You had to know. Right?
1:10.4	So all we ever do.
1:11.4	Okay, so before I jump in, I feel like it is important for me to acknowledge that adoption is a complicated and even kind of a messed up subject.
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