After you wake up 1,000s of days and hope that today is the day that your children will love you…and it’s not…it all starts to build up. It’s not that I’ve turned against my kids – but I often feel more like a sandbox warrior posed for the next threat than a mom. Then I realize I’m letting their illness win. I need to show them that I can ‘win’ and they can still be safe. I have to be better at choosing the battles I MUST win.

I don’t feel like I’m a pessimist, but as I read back over so much of what I write about our family, I sound really depressed.  Or at least, I sound like I want to …

My son came home last night.  It’s been six weeks since I last saw him.  I’m really reaching right now to find the right angle for writing about this.  But, the truth is more boring.  …

Adoptive parents are a diverse crowd, and our children are just as diverse, so I don’t know that it’s completely fair to create a list of specific dos and don’ts and say “THIS is what love in adoption MUST look like.” But… but… some overall concepts are universally true. While we may not agree on every single detail, and I may not be right on every single point, I do believe that sharing my list – the things that God has placed on my heart – will help you think more about God’s Truth when it comes to your own call to adopt.

My son Kembe has been with us for five months now.   His adopt took three years, and we made frequent visits to Haiti to get to know him. Whenever we visited, we used to laugh …

I have been made aware – numerous time lately – that I baby my children.  This comes a complete shock to me because I feel like a very ‘independence’ preaching mom.  I always knew that …

Well, my fifteen minutes on The View is up. Despite a slightly mortifying gaffe, I was glad to share a bit of our adoption story on a national media outlet.  Leading …

I had lunch with a group of friends yesterday.  This is not just any random group – but a hastily assembled bunch of moms, met in various fashions and all moms through adoption.  There are …

Co-morbid doesn’t sound like a good word and really, it isn’t.  In the medical world that I live in, it means overlapping or happening together.  Many children/adults with RAD (reactive attachment disorder) are mis-diagnosed or …

I am passing the torch. Last month I was interviewed for the featured writer post. So, this month it is my turn to interview one of our writers. I had the honor to interview Marcie Pickelsimer—our spirited, …