Posts Tagged ‘birthparents’

Looking Back To See What’s In Front Of You

I’ve played out the end of this surrogacy journey over and over in my head. I planned and prepared very early on to be sad when it was done, and got ripped a new one on a certain surrogacy “support” site for stating that expectation out loud. How dare I? It seemed that the upset was not over that...

December 29th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Sam’s Sister: a Book About Open Adoption

Sam’s Sister, by Juliet C. Bond is a book we have read many times in our house. In fact, I could probably read it without actually looking at the words. The story opens with Rosa, a young girl, wondering why her mom is so easily upset these days. Her mom shares with her that she is going to have...

November 17th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

And Now For Something Completely Different..

This is about adoption, I swear. It’s a conceptual piece, roll with it. Pat fell right out of the berth and onto the floor, the same as every morning. The hard floor and constant motion took away any bit of escape that sleep had afforded her. She crawled into the tiny bathroom, there was...

October 25th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Open to Open Adoption

As I turned into the parking lot, my palms were sweating and my stomach in knots. We were meeting them; the expectant couple who’d picked our profile from the many others on file with our agency. They’d picked our profile, and they wanted to meet us before the baby was born. They wanted to meet...

October 4th, 2009 | Domestic, Feature | Read More

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

On Saturday night, people across Asia will celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival or 中秋节 (Zhōngqiūjié) in Mandarin. This holiday always occurs during the Autumnal Equinox, so people often refer to it as the Moon Festival, since the moon appears bigger, brighter and closer to earth at this time of...

October 1st, 2009 | China, Feature | Read More

On the Second Time Around

Junior turns one this month. Our lives are so different now than they were a year ago. The joys this boy has brought us can’t be quantified. People are often surprised when they learn that our children have the same birth mother. The really curious ones press a little further and want to know if...

July 10th, 2009 | Domestic, Feature | Read More

Lightning Can Strike Twice – a domestic adoption story

I remember as a child getting my father a really cool $5 tie or some other cool trinket I made at school that really served no other purpose then to say what you don’t say the rest of the year. Thanks. Now the role has been reversed and I am on the receiving end of the “great one day only gifts.”...

June 19th, 2009 | Domestic, Feature | Read More

Some words of advice….

For some time now I have wanted to post on what to say and what not to say to adoptive parents both before they receive their child and after they return with their child….as well as things NOT to say in front of the children. So I thought today would be as good a day as any to do that. This is...

June 3rd, 2009 | Feature, Health | Read More