Posts Tagged ‘domestic-adoption’

101 Best Adoption, Loss and Infertility Blogs

Back in 2008 when I wrote at A Child Chosen, I created a list that has since become one of my most popular posts. The Best of the Best: Top 50 Adoption Blogs has continued to circulate the web since I left b5media but some of those blogs have gone by the wayside and some have done so well the writers...

February 4th, 2010 | Carnival, 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

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

Arranging Childcare

Depending on the employment situation of you and your spouse, you may not be parents for very long before it is time to find child care for your newly placed/adopted child. While the last thing you may want to do while cuddling your child and welcoming him home is think about leaving him, daycare is...

December 25th, 2009 | Feature | 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

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

New Research Encourages Going Beyond Culture Camp

The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute just released the executive summary of its recent research study entitled Beyond Culture Camp: Promoting Healthy Identity Formation in Adoption. I’m so excited to see this published study because, although the results aren’t really all that new if...

November 13th, 2009 | Feature, Korea | Read More

Everyday Gifts

The more I write here, the more you will learn about our particular open adoption situation. Each adoptive family and each birth family has a unique relationship, and ours is no exception. Most of our children’s biological families live within about a 30 miles of us. We are worlds apart, but...

October 11th, 2009 | Domestic, Feature | Read More

Don’t call me Mother – a memoir

I just finished reading (in record time) a memoir entitled Don’t Call Me Mother by Elizabeth Elias. The story wraps from her youth and concludes with her healing from PAD (post adoption depression). Elizabeth’s writing style quickly pulls you into her world and I found myself understanding...

October 7th, 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