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Little Big Town Reveals Their Kids Want to Start a Band
Kimberly Schlapman's bosom is afloat this vacation season.
The Little Big Town member took portion successful the 24th Annual A Home For The Holiday At The Grove lawsuit successful Los Angeles, which celebrated families whose lives person been changed done adoption. The festive evening had her reflecting connected her ain acquisition arsenic an adoptive parent to her 5-year-old daughter Dolly Grace with husband Steve Schlapman.
"I was conscionable reasoning astir the emotion for my adopted child. It is identical to the emotion I person for my biologic child. There is nary difference," the 52-year-old told E! News connected Nov. 20. "The emotion came instantly, arsenic soon arsenic we laid our eyes connected her. My hubby and I, we fell instantly successful emotion with her."
Kimberly continued, "That's truly each these children need, the children who request foster attraction and adoption, they conscionable request love! A household who wants them and cares for them and makes them their own, that's each they need. There's truthful galore retired there."
The mates are besides parents to girl Daisy Pearl, 15. Kimberly antecedently discussed her struggle to have a 2nd child, saying it was Daisy who truly pushed for a sibling.
"We kept trying, but past erstwhile Daisy was 4, she started begging for a sibling, 'Please, please. I privation a babe member oregon a babe sister,'" she recalled to People successful 2021. "We started trying overmuch harder astatine that point. We did each the aesculapian things, the artificial insemination astatine first, and past successful vitro fertilization arsenic we got much serious."
The Grammy victor shared, "We mislaid the archetypal in vitro. We mislaid the 2nd one. And past my hubby and I conscionable 1 time looked astatine each different and said, possibly God's telling america it's clip to adopt."
In January 2017, the couple announced they had adopted Dolly into their household aft getting a substance astir the babe miss during the holidays. Three years later, Kimberly penned her debut children's publication A Dolly For Christmas—a story astir how her elder girl wanted a sibling truthful atrocious that she wrote a missive to Santa.
"She is our implicit Christmas miracle," Kimberly told People successful 2020. "I deliberation that religion is what got america done each the disappointments—and our love, our immense household enslaved and the emotion we person for each other."
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This Christmas, Kimberly is looking guardant to continuing holiday traditions with her family, including a fun-filled travel to Tennessee.
"We ever extremity our twelvemonth successful East Tennessee successful a spot called Blackberry Farms. We instrumentality our set and unit and kids and families and bash each the Christmas stuff," she told E! News. "The decorating of cookies, we instrumentality cooking classes and we thrust horses and conscionable each the truly amusive stuff. We devour large nutrient and we don't person to navigator it!"
The "Girl Crush" singer added, "So that's the champion gift—you don't person to cleanable it up oregon navigator it!
The 24th Annual A Home For The Holiday At The Grove, hosted by Gloria Estefan, airs Dec. 23 astatine 8 p.m. ET/PT connected the CBS Television Network and volition besides beryllium disposable to watercourse unrecorded and on-demand connected Paramount+.
— Reporting by Amanda Champagne
Watch E! News Mondays done Thursdays astatine 11:30 p.m., lone connected E!.
