The state of Oklahoma keeps records of how many people obtain drivers licenses and are plumbers, but not adoptions.

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This is my understanding of how the adoption process works at this time! I cannot promise that things will not change as we go but this is my current understanding! The easiest way …

Recently I have seen a rise in the number of articles, Facebook posts, and even tweets claiming to define what Sensory Processing Disorder is.  This should be good news, and it is — mostly.  But, …

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 his keyboard at work, the dishwasher having finished its final rinse. I was stunned, after working towards this goal for so long. All I could do was blink.

We’re going to meet her.

Whenever I sit to write, I am already at the middle of it. It’s the beginning that always befuddles me. I never know where to start.
That is because, in this conversation at least, there is …

Yesterday, as I dragged my now five-and-a-half-year-old Tongginator into a local coffee shop, a man surprised me from behind, asking quite bluntly, “Where is she from?” I turned and looked at him for a minute with a raised eyebrow before sharing the name of our town, then adding, “but she was born in China” so that I could avoid the dreaded “But where is she really from?”

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.

Our daughter found it much less stressful to watch an edited version of our China adoption trip video, set to music, which she soon named her “China baby movie.” This started our quest to find songs that fit an adoption themed video. I’ve compiled a list below – some I love, some not so much – that seem to be favorites among the adoptive parent community.

Republished by Blog Post PromoterI wrote an interesting letter yesterday.  An orphanage caring for  HIV+ children recently partnered with an adoption agency that was happy to work with them and eager to find families …

Because we didn’t choose Korea – we choose Vietnam and when Vietnam closed we took it very hard and let our social worker lead us to Korea for all the wrong reasons and the right reasons. Then Little Man and Little Princess happened – not because either of us were looking for them.