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The Memory Keeper’s Son

The Memory Keeper’s Son
I just looked at my oldest child’s baby book for the first time since we finalized his adoption. I hadn’t really thought about looking at it – one of the kids just pulled it off the bookshelf and plopped it in my lap. As I sat there flipping the pages, I was flooded with memories...
March 8th, 2010 | Domestic, Feature, Foster Care | Read More

Were they Orphans? Does it Really Matter Graff?

Save the Children and Unicef both believe that children are better off in their home countries. Save the Children has gone so far as to say that international adoption can actually  “exacerbate the problem it hopes to solve…the very existence of orphanages encourages poor parents to abandon...
February 25th, 2010 | Advocate, Domestic, Feature, Health | Read More

Financing An Adoption

Financing An Adoption
A few months ago, I naively wrote a quick post about HelpUs Adopt.org. They were doing a fundraiser for their adoption grants, and wanted to get the word out about a bracelet that had been designed for the cause. I wasn’t expecting the response that short post got. It seems that in between the time...
February 23rd, 2010 | Domestic, Feature | Read More

Archiving an Adoption Story

I have no idea how interested either one of my children will be in their own adoption stories. I don’t know if they will seek answers to questions I don’t have the answers to, or what kind of relationship they will develop with their birth families once it is their relationship to maintain,...
February 3rd, 2010 | Domestic, Health, Special Needs | Read More

Open Book

Open Book
This morning I took my daughter for a breakfast date at Panera with some friends. Just a few minutes after sitting down, a curious man (probably in his 30s) cut straight to the chase and asked if my daughter was adopted. I told him she was and then just turned my attention back to my friends and our...
February 1st, 2010 | Domestic, Feature | Read More

On The Outside

Two Fridays ago, as I dropped off yet another immigration packet update at our agency, I stumbled into an adoption placement. The director of my agency and I shared smiles during the paperwork hand-off as a young couple became parents for the first time, just a few feet from me. During my brief, two-minute...
January 25th, 2010 | Domestic | Read More

Miracle on Social Network: Facebook Adoption Group Finds Family in Record Time

Miracle on Social Network: Facebook Adoption Group Finds Family in Record Time
Adoption Search Facebook Style! I watched a miracle happen on Facebook.  Just now. It was amazing. A friend of mine, who is an adoptee, put together a Facebook group asking for help finding her birth family. Yesterday. By now there are 259 members of the group. All from different parts of the adoption...
January 19th, 2010 | Domestic, Feature, First-Moms | Read More

A Breakdown of Adoption Fees

A Breakdown of Adoption Fees
The other day, I was writing a check. It happened to be a payment to the adoption agency, the last one I needed to send in regards to our son’s placement with us. Macey saw me working and asked what I was doing. “Writing a check.” “Oh. You’re making mail?” “Yes.” “Who’s getting the...
January 17th, 2010 | Domestic, Feature | Read More

Sarah Jessica Parker: Twins with a Surrogate

The news is everywhere today…People Magazine, Huffington Post, the LA Times…Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick will welcome twin girls via a Gestational Surrogate later this summer. For a couple recently in the news with rumors of  affair I do hope this was not a hasty decision...
December 23rd, 2009 | Domestic | Read More

He Answered with a Rainstorm: Thankfullness for Family

I remember the prayers I used to say, staring out the window at the heat waves rising from the pavement.  The summer dirt opened up, parched and begging for rain.  I peered down deep and wondered if a penny dropped in the cracks would fall out in China.  I heard the grown-ups talking about failing...
November 23rd, 2009 | Domestic | Read More
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