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Three young brothers found a new loving family when a Massachusetts couple welcomed them into their home with open arms.
In 2017, KC and Lena Currie, of Sudbury, met their son Joey at an event sponsored by Children’s Friend, an affiliate of the nonprofit organization, Seven Hills Foundation, in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts.
“We saw a picture of Joey and Children’s Friend mentioned [it] would be a good match,” Lena told Good Morning America. “He was 18 months old at the time.”
In early 2018, after fostering Joey, the Curries adopted him. He’s now three-years-old.
One year later, they adopted Joey’s biological brothers, Logan, 2 and Noah, 1, on Nov. 23 — National Adoption Day.
Logan was living with another foster family at the time. He was supposed to be adopted by that family but the arrangement fell through.
Now, the three brothers are together under one roof with KC and Lena, who are lovingly known as Mama and Mommy.
“A lot of times Joey says, ‘Hey, Mommy-Mama’ — he’ll settle for either one,” Lena told GMA.
“It was nice to check off a box and make it true to the world,” KC said. “We are their family.”
“It was our gut-feeling,” KC said about their decision to adopt Joey’s brothers. “We were going to end up saying yes because keeping the brothers together was really important to us. When they’re older and have questions, they’ll have each other to lean on and experience that ride together.”
Veronica Listerud, director of adoption and family services at Children’s Friend, told GMA that the organization was thrilled the Curries opened their hearts to not only Joey, but his brothers as well.
“It’s what you want to see happen,” Listerud said.”They’re a wonderful family. They’re flexible — they really understand the kids’ needs, the importance of maintaining sibling relationships and the long-term impact of that.”
KC and Lena say they are looking forward to the boys having more dance parties, celebrating the holidays and watching the three grow up together.
“It’s the first year and first holiday where it’s all permanent and true,” Lena said.
KC chimed in, “Now we can start dreaming about grade school, sports and all those fun things.”
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