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What Your Adoption Journey Needs Most This Year
Being on the journey to adopt requires so much of us physically, mentally, and emotionally. The adoption home study alone can feel like it requires more documentation than taking out a mortgage or buying a brand-new car. As I check my email today, I once again see our social worker has contacted me...
17 Things To Do If You Hope To Adopt In 2017
Choosing adoption can be overwhelming and confusing, rendering many hopeful parents to be paralyzed with fear and indecisiveness. If you are considering adopting in 2017, here are 17 things you need to be doing right now:
1: Consider Why You Want To Adopt
Adopting is a big decision and requires a lo...
Our First Year Home After Our Adoption
You never know what the New Year will bring. For us, it was the start of our new life together as a family. It was a cold day in January, and the trees in our yard were gently covered with a fresh blanket of snow. But unlike the typical winter days of the past, this one was special. This was the day...
A Prayer For Adoptive Parents
Being a parent is an amazing, challenging, awesome, and exhausting blessing. No matter how moms become moms and dads become dads – parenting is a full-time job with hours that never end.
When someone becomes a parent through adoption – all the blessings and challenges of being a parent exist, but th...
Eight Ways to Love Your Child’s Birth Parents
I’m a mom of four children, each with an open adoption with their birth family. Open adoption is intricate, and sometimes families get so lost in details that they forget about the joys that come with the gift of openness. With some planning and thoughtfulness, you can extend love to your children’s...
Ten Adoption Themed Children’s Picture Books, Just in Time for Valentine’s Day
As a mom-by-adoption to four children, we have tons of adoption picture books in our home. They open the door to conversation, encouraging our children to ask questions, and help them to navigate through their feelings.
Valentine’s Day presents the perfect opportunity to add to your child’s library...
Should You Work With An Adoption Agency?
Paperwork. Home studies. Meetings with expectant parents. Adoption can certainly be a daunting task. So who do you turn to for help navigating the process? Should you work with an adoption agency or opt for an independent adoption through an attorney? Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of workin...
Before You Give Up Your Adoption Search
My husband and I recently renewed our home study for yet another year. We are not signed on with an agency because we just do not have the funds. In three years we have had only one match . . . yet, we are not ready to give up searching for our child we long to bring home.
I will admit, however, tha...
Five Practical Ways You Can Bond With Your Newly Adopted Baby
When we adopted our first child, it was a whirlwind experience. We had been waiting fourteen months when we got a phone call saying we had been chosen to adopt a baby girl who was already born. We quickly called an adoption attorney, packed up our car, and drove four hours to our daughter’s birth ci...
Preparing (Or Not) For Adoption
I knew a couple once who packed extensively as they waited eagerly for the call. They filled three large suitcases with baby clothes, diapers, and enough clothes for themselves to last a good six months. Then they placed their stuffed suitcases by their front door “because we might not have time to...
Questions To Ask Potential Birth Mothers
Your phone rings. It’s the call you’ve been waiting for: An expectant mother considering adoption would like to meet with you. Your heart races with both excitement and fear. Could this be it? Will this meeting lead to a match? And even more important, what will you say to her?
A meeting with a pot...
Adoptee & Birth Parent Writers You Must Read When You’re Adopting
The adoption triad (birth parents, the adoptee, and the adoptive parents) really cannot exist without the other. Once an adoption placement takes place, the three parties are intricately woven for life, regardless of the level of contact. Each piece of the triangle depends upon the other, because wi...