Every year, I look forward to putting up my tree and cranking the Christmas music in mid-November. I don’t know many people who love Christmas music, especially new Christmas music, as much as I do. This year after a really challenging and isolating fall, “Seasons” by Hillsong has become my mantra. It’s gorgeous, and the … Read More
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Why I’m a SAHP
I am a stay-at-home-parent (SAHP), but I work one afternoon and evening a week. My kids go to a day home for about 5 hours on that day, and occasionally go another day if I need extra childcare. I know this is not everyone’s choice, or not everyone is able to choose this even if … 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
Good and Hard
It has been just over a year since the adoption of our daughter, Cora, was completed and she was finally able to come home to our family. It has been a hard year but a good year. I don’t think I really understood how those two could work together. Or how true it is when … Read More
Embracing Complexity
November is Adoption Awareness Month. As an active participant and student in the adoption community, I experience an onslaught of differing opinions on adoption during the month. And I have purposely tried to minimize my voice in the adoption community in order to make more room for adoptees and birthparents to be heard. On this … Read More
Happiest 3rd Birthday
Today was such a good day. Today our sweet, darling girl turned 3- IN OUR HOUSE! 365 days ago she turned 2 NOT in our house and it was so hard. It was so sad for us that we had prayed with complete faith that she would be home and God still said “no”. Sad … Read More
Change and Identity
Today I dropped my oldest child off at her very first day of preschool. I was not as emotional as I was afraid I would be. Just very excited for her and a little nervous that she would not love it as much as I thought she would. Even though I had no tears, I … Read More
Home From Taiwan
Exactly one month ago, we arrived back in Canada as a family of four and, after 846 days, I traded a symbol of anticipation for another symbol- one of Hope and Grace. I put this black bracelet on my wrist on November 1, 2013. We had just begun the process of adopting from Taiwan and attended … Read More