A+A is a blog about our experiences on the road to becoming parents through adoption. We’re adopting through the World Association for Children and Parents (WACAP), through their AAI Program. As a white couple who is adopting an African American child, expect to see reflections on, and links to,...

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome affects 1 or 2 out of every 1000 births and it’s a completely preventable disorder. But, with the United States in one of the worst recessions in history, more and more people have been turning to drinking to ease depression. Experts recognize losing a job as one of the...

I have to track down a picture of this chair for you because it really is hideous. It’s lime green. Seriously. Lime Green. Lime as in Jello lime. We call it the Pickel chair for obvious reasons and it is the most comfortable chair in the house. It was actually my grandmother’s chair although...

Are you going to BlogHer 2010 for the first time? We would love to see you there! Maybe we’ll even meet you all for a drink! Sign up your site here so we can all find each other online (and on twitter) and follow each other until BlogHer! [Translate]

We missed our Sunday Showcase last week because of the Carnival. We’re back this week with a fabulous article from Uncharted Parent. She originally gave me this post,  How Much of Your Child’s Birth Culture Should You Incorporate into Your Home?, to showcase but after reading this one I couldn’t...

Mabel’s Labels is searching for a new blogger (I totally want the gig!) Electrical storms are going to wipe out the Internet (perhaps forever). You have one day to write about your passions: what do you want to say to the blogosphere in 300 words? All I really need to know I learned on the Internet… Play...

I didn’t know what the topic for this carnival was going to be until today when I read our newest writer’s post; Little Bigots at Basketball. It hurt my heart to read it. Then, I read Tonggu Momma’s post on Chinese Food. Seriously, what kind of parents are we raising? My family lives...

Today marks the start of our Sunday Showcase and we’re starting off with a bang. Stacey, the author of Any Mommy Out There, was originally slated to be a Grown in My Heart writer but, as she puts it, she’s a tad flaky. She has, however, kept up with our super secret Yahoo Group. And she...

Are you headed to BlogHer 2010 this year? because we’ve just gone and done a big thing. Big. Huge. Unprecedented for GIMH. Yes. We submitted a proposal for a Room of Your Own at BlogHer 2010. But, you won’t get to see us all (Marcie Pickelsimer, Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy, Carissa Haning,...

Are you a Blogger? Do you want to be featured on Grown in My Heart? Let us know! Every Sunday we’ll be featuring one of you on our new Sunday Showcase! Contact Us with the following information… 1. Blog name 2. URL 3.  BEST adoption blog post 4. Short Bio Right now we have at least 10 submissions...