I recently read an article on social media written by a first mother sketching out the story of how she came to re-adopt the daughter she placed for adoption eighteen years earlier. For those of us in the adoption sphere it’s a fascinating and bizarre tale. I won’t attempt to recap it; if you haven’t … Read More
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No More Excuses
Lifetime Healing’s prompt today for Adoption Awareness Month is “Excuses”. And boy, Adoptive parents, this one is for us. Please bear with me while I rant a bit. Because this has gone on long enough, and while I’m frustrated with these conversations, I will not stop having them because I will not stop advocating for … Read More
Fake
Lifetime Healing’s sixth Instagram prompt for Adoption Awareness Month is the word “Fake”. I am both struggling with these prompts and loving them. I was really wrestling with what to share for this prompt because this is something I am struggling with right now. As I was thinking about the prompt and going through our … Read More
Visiting Birth Countries
We are heading back to Taiwan in October and it’s been interesting hearing the questions and comments that people have about that. Many people have questions about what we are going to do. Some people think it’s awesome that we’re traveling trans-continentally with two 5 year olds. Some people want to know what our girls … Read More
I’m Listening
I am interested all things adoption, so I automatically feel connected to people in the adoption triad. I am always trying to get my hands on books for kids and adults, relating to adoption. Basically, in a community when adoption is uncommon, social media is all about adoption for me! I need to know there are … Read More
Adoption T to Z
Finishing up with T-Z. If you missed out on the previous posts, check out the last few posts. Transracial: Transracial Adoption describes any family where the adoptees and adoptive parents are of different races. These families are beautiful but these relationships also add to the complexity of adoption since many times adoptees feel alone in … Read More
Adoption P to S
Continuing on with Adoption A-Z posts, here are letters P to S. I knew I was long winded, but man, I really need to learn how to be more concise… I can’t just say what I mean quickly? I hope you are enjoying these and learning something about adoption as well. Writing is one of … Read More
Adoption J to O
Wow, here I thought I might be able to post all my alphabet adoption posts for Adoption Awareness Month in 4ish blog posts, but (not surprisingly) I talk too much. As I shared in the last few posts, I took on a challenge from a birth mom to come up with one word pertaining to adoption each … Read More
Adoption F to I
Here is my second post for Adoption Awareness Month 2017. As I shared in the last post, I took on the A-Z challenge by birth mother, Ashley Mitchell to choose a word pertaining to adoption to describe each day in November and I have compiled them here to share with you. Apparently I am long … Read More
Adoption A to… E?
November is Adoption awareness month! So I took on the A-Z challenge by birth mother, Ashley Mitchell of Big Tough Girl and Lifetime Healing, LLC to share a word pertaining to adoption from my point of view each day. Some were more challenging than others but I made it! I wanted to compile them here for … Read More