Family talks growing to 15 after adopting 9
At 6:40 a.m. in rural Arkansas, the Hawthorn family is normally waking up — and it’s no small ordeal. Enough kids to fill a baseball team live in their bustling, makeshift five-bedroom home. Kyndal, Lacey, Layna, Arria, and Addiley — five sisters — are book-ended by their two brothers, Dawson and Nixson. All seven were unrelated to sibling toddlers Korgen and Haizlee until the nine became family when they were adopted out of foster care. Terri and Mike Hawthorn are high school sweethearts, have been married 36 years and had already raised four biological kids before becoming mom and dad to this extended brood. Mike, 57, makes a living in landscaping. It’s his wife, Terri, 54, whose full-time job is to care for the children. “I never get a day off,” she told “Nightline.” “When I’m not feeling well, the house falls apart. If I don't do the rooms daily… within two days you can’t see the carpet.” The Hawthorns have a history of welcoming strangers into their home. While raising...