Thank You Schenectady Gazette

Thank you to Marcy Velte a reporter for the Schenectady Gazette, she did a wonderful article about our book in the local newspaper. Here is just a little taste of the great job she did.



“If I’m from China, where are they from?”

It was a question that sparked an idea for Jane and John Sardos. Why not write a children’s book about adoption?

Their adopted daughter Jaynie was asking the question about her four older brothers, all born to their parents biologically. Since her new family integrated Chinese culture into their day-to-day lives since she arrived in the United States at 13 months old, she always knew where she came from and her own heritage. What she didn’t know is where the rest of her family came from.

“At that time she really just assumed that we were all born somewhere else,” Jane Sardos said. “When she was little she went through a stage where she thought all the babies she saw came from China.”

Her parents eventually explained that Jaynie’s brothers came from “mommy’s tummy.” The Rotterdam couple traveled all the way to China for her because years after deciding their family was through growing, they changed their minds.

Thanks again!