ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The routine is familiar for any parent — up early trying not to run late. Getting three kids out the door can be a chore.
Making it to this point, Atlanta News First anchor Blair Miller did not follow the same familiar path as most families of five. Atlanta News First Anchor Tracye Hutchins spoke with Miller and his husband Johnathan about being parents.
“For me, I think I knew that was always a goal, and I was going to let nothing stand in the way of me being a dad,” Johnathon said.
But Blair had his doubts.
“I always was the one who said we can’t have kids. How would we possibly have kids? What would that look like?” he said. “It was more me being hung up with being on TV and trying. How do you live that life, but also have a family at the same time?’”
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The couple is now raising three boys who are part of the same family, but each has their own adoption story. Jameson, the youngest, was born in Massachusetts and Cash was born in North Carolina. While 12-year-old Zeke was born in California, his adoption was private, involving multiple agencies.
“We got matched through the agency here in Atlanta, through a birth mom in Bakersfield, California, and that was like late June, and she called us on July 7 and said, ‘I’m in labor,’” Johnathon explains.
Then came Cash. His adoption was through a family acquaintance: the mother of the Miller’s Godchild.
“She had called us and said, ‘I need help. I need you guys to come help and take care of him. She was in a situation where she couldn’t care for him right then,’” Blair said.
The couple worked to get legal custody and became a family of four. Little did Blair and Jonathan realize, they weren’t done yet.
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Following a move to Boston, they met a three-year-old boy who had been neglected and abandoned and needed love, too.
“We went into a foster home where there were maybe 12 to 15 babies and kids in cribs, and it was dark, and we walked in and said, ‘This is Jameson, this is your son.’ He just looked up and just jumped into our arms and we walked out with him and sat in the car, and at the moment the car, he said, he goes, ‘You’re my dads,’ and it was just like, gosh, you know? What a moment,” Blair said.
Every moment is precious for this family of five — especially the time spent together.
“If you ask me, did I think we would be raising three boys today? Absolutely not. I didn’t think that’s how it was in the cards for us, but I’m so glad it is,” Johnathon said.
For the Millers, their adoption journeys took several different paths, never knowing where they would lead.
“I always say to people, open, go through the door. Just go through the door. The rest will happen. If you really want that, that’s what will happen,” Blair said.
“There’s so many kids out there, there is a need. And if that’s something that someone wants to do, they should absolutely do it,” Johnathan added.
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