I was visiting today with a friend whom I have have not seen since high school when the topic of politics came up. Actually, the topic of Sarah Palin came up because we were talking about how teenage girls today need a positive role model and young mothers need to see good family values (and […]
On Saturday, Wendy Piersall challenged her readers to write a post in 5 minutes or less…and to inspire readers in that amount of time. So, today I will take that challenge. Right now it is 12: 25.
I begin this post by telling all of you that it is okay to be in therapy, that it […]
Most nights AJ settles into bed pretty easily. In fact, most recently he has been so tired that he has asked to go to bed, put his own pajamas on, and put himself into bed.
But sometimes he reverts back to that cuddle stage and calls out for me after I have given him kisses and […]
Some of us adoptive parents (who have experienced infertility and come to adoption because of this) assume that after adopting a child our grief over infertility will diminish because we have a child. However, Faith points out that it is not always the case.
I was surprised to learn that adoption did not take away my […]
About two weeks ago I took my cell phone into the store to see if they had a new charger for me because mine had broken after months of falling from its lovely perch atop the plug-in.
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On our first trip to Russia to meet AJ we were able to spend about 9 hours with him over three days and each moment was precious. He began to take to us after that first day and we learned so much about him in that short time period. We have a lot to learn […]
How do you choose a name for an adopted child? Do you keep their birth name, change it entirely, give them a name representative of their culture or ethnicity, or do you allow them to chose?
Tags: , Adoption, birth family, birth-mother, chosing, culture, ethnicity, names
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I have been working on this post all day and I have been hesitant to click the publish button because I don’t know how it will be perceived. Words are very unpredictable. But I am taking the chance because I do want my voice to be heard; I just don’t want to be misunderstood.
Adoption has […]
From A Birth Project:
According to a BBC report, a group of ‘charity workers’ located in Chad were arrested on the tarmark of the airport with an airplane full of about 103 children. The group denies they planned to sell the children for adoption, instead claiming they were sending them to ‘host families’ at a nice […]
We have now officially approved the US Embassy to conduct DNA testing on our future son and his birth mother. This, to us, is a huge step and it happened quite quickly after submitting our POA (Power of Attorney). The Child’s Dossier has also been completed and they are gearing up to submit everything to […]
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