Arkansas couple who fostered 80 children in the past adopt set of seven siblings just in time for Christmas
An Arkansas couple with four children of their own and who had housed more than 80 foster kids in the past made Christmas special for a set of seven siblings — by adopting them.
While Terri and Michael Hawthorn had only just legally adopted one-year-old Korgen and three-year-old Haizlee this past April, they toiled to ensure that they could adopt seven other siblings who were not related to the toddlers.
Terri and Michael of Hot Springs had first fostered two of the seven siblings, 10-year-old twins, and then eventually decided they wanted to adopt them, as well as their five other siblings. The Daily Mail reports that on December 3, after several months of anxious waiting, the papers for the adoption finally went through, making the siblings the new extensions of the rapidly growing family.