The Truth of Adoption … From a Jana’s perspective

  I honestly don’t know what to write about so I’m just going to speak as my brain travels down the roads of my mind…   I'm sitting here with a cup of coffee..what do I see? I see a cup of fresh brewed coffee and truly also a tea. Think about it… hot water, solid substance, combined creating a fresh dark caffeinated beverage?? Sounds amazing right? For me I love the bitter taste coffee gives…it’s more awakening. I also love it cold, hot, with milk or without…you can honestly use coffee as a base for any magical creation to share with others while talking about how busy life is. Enjoying the company of just a normal human being.  You ever just think about how certain people are more enjoyable than others? We all have those people that are either too much of a bore or too much energy. Me I find myself enjoying sitting alone. Because my brain is so creative as I get these ideas and thoughts flowing all as one creating a world of reality. I am enough sometimes for myself...

  Why was I adopted?  Many should be aware of the uprise in hard cold drug usage everywhere, especially here on the range. If you have heard of the Iron Range, you probably heard ‘drugs’ in that same conversation. The realty of the difficult lives here on the range only become more real hearing from an individual who has had to suffer through the real challenges of living on the Iron Range. This is the story on how the use of substances caused my adoption My biological mother Jamie Elaine Olson is an example of how it starts and how it can be beat but its easier said than done. When she was in her mid teens she started her journey with just being curious about  Methamphetamine after being on A dderall for her ADHD. There being a more intense feeling, she became obsessed with wanting that same high she got the first time. This lead to the  extreme  amounts used of other drugs too along with  alcohol. For almost twenty years she actively fought the ...

    My adopted name is Jana Holiday Hays. My birth name is Jana Elaine Olson. I was born on  February 20, 2002.  I am now nineteen years old and living a quiet life as a janitor. I have four beautiful male cats Chico, Chase, Charlie, and Salem. We live in a basement studio apartment in Virginia, Minnesota. I was born on the range but grew up with my adopted family twenty-five miles north of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. When  I  turned 18,  I  moved out to try and  reconnect  with my biological family.  I am a just a girl trying to make a life on my own… creating the next part of my story.  I  have a little brother who was born on September 12, 2004. His name is Zachery Garshwiler Hays but his birth name was Zachery Stephen Olson.  At this moment he is still under the care of our adopted parents John and Julie Holiday Hays. He moved out to a shelter three months ago in Grand Rapids Minnesota. They could not give him the at...