Articles By: Gillian

Meeting Her

I’m scheduled to meet the little girl we are adopting from Eastern Europe in two weeks.  Tuesday morning, the awaited email arrived with an invitation to travel to complete the adoption. I sat in front of my computer; the house quiet, kids already dropped off at school, my husband typing away on...
October 6th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Anger?

Anger?
The most surprising part so far about having our daughter home is my struggle with anger.  And standing in line behind anger in the department store of my mind is guilt.   I didn’t think anger was going to be one of the emotions I would experience after our daughter, Evangeline, was adopted from...
September 26th, 2009 | Feature, Special Needs | Read More

Like Observing Wildlife

Like Observing Wildlife
This first night I spent with my freshly adopted daughter reminded me a bit of watching wild life at the zoo. We were staying at my mother-in-law’s apartment in Kiev, Ukraine and three weeks prior to that night our visits were limited to two daytime hour intervals at her baby orphanage located outside...
August 25th, 2009 | Feature, Special Needs | Read More

Joining the adoption club

Until a year ago, I never seriously thought about adoption for our family. My husband and I talked on and off through the years about it but always in general terms. “Wouldn’t it be great to adopt someday.” “What a worth while thing to do.” Then one day I was on a site called Reece’s Rainbow,...
June 28th, 2009 | Feature, Special Needs | Read More

Paper pregnancy is for real

When we committed to adopt a little girl from Eastern Europe, the idea of a child actually being at the end of insurmountable paperwork and meetings and money was quite unbelievable.  I heard from other mom that the process would be a lot of work; forms to fill out, meetings with a social worker, medical...
June 16th, 2009 | Feature, Special Needs | Read More