Posts Tagged ‘Korea’

Sunday Showcase-Positive Stereotyping is Not Always Positive

We missed our Sunday Showcase last week because of the Carnival. We’re back this week with a fabulous article from Uncharted Parent. She originally gave me this post, How Much of Your Child’s Birth Culture Should You Incorporate into Your Home?, to showcase but after reading this one I couldn’t...

March 7th, 2010 | Culture, Korea, Sunday Showcase | Read More

Choosing Love

I still remember the biggest fight Aaron and I have ever had as if it was yesterday. It was the one time I almost uttered the word “divorce”, something I swore I would never do unless I was serious. We had only been married a year and we had been trying to have a baby for that whole time...

February 7th, 2010 | Feature, Korea | Read More

Cultural Exchange, or so I Thought

This post is about the exchange student we have living with us, the one that is driving me crazy and refuses to become a member of our family no matter what is said or done for her. I was so excited for her to come. It would open up so many opportunities for us – we would be able to learn about...

January 10th, 2010 | Feature, Korea | Read More

Only God – Only God….

This may be the only post I do publicly about the genetic lottery that my daughter won (or as some other people look at it the random lottery that she won) but my daughter has a disorder simply known as TSC (more about TSC after the jump). And in case you are wondering this is not a good lottery to...

January 7th, 2010 | Feature | Read More

Cultural Exchange – One plus One does not equal two

One plus one does not always equal two…yeah my husband would tell me I am wrong, you know the math whiz would say tell me again how you came up with that but really I am serious. See I have been trying to figure out for some time how we are going to raise children who love two different cultures...

December 4th, 2009 | Feature, Korea | 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

Please Help Us Find A Cure

I have written a few times on here about TSC (tuberous sclerosis complex)- the genetic disorder Little Princess has and everyone has always been great about it! Now I am going to ask you to sponsor me as I walk to find a cure for TSC…the walk is May 30th in the St. Louis area. The event is “Step...

November 8th, 2009 | Feature, Health, Special Needs | Read More

One year later…

I remember writing this post (I did edit it a bit this time…) on October 23, 2008: So does anyone here know Annie – the musical – and that song with the line “Yesterday was plain awful” well that is going through my head now. Why you ask…well yesterday (October 21, 2008) was plain...

November 4th, 2009 | Feature, Korea | Read More

Leaving My Children – Or so I thought… (September 22, 2009)

I am mad…beyond mad because no matter how much I try to educate people on our situation no one listens. For almost a year, I have kept my children with us everywhere we went from church to family events. If the kids MUST be left with someone and one or the other set of grandparents are not...

September 22nd, 2009 | Feature, Korea | Read More

Across the Generations

I remember the very first time I ever considered adopting a child. It didn’t happen for me inside an impersonal doctor’s office or while I prayed in church during a particularly moving sermon referencing James 1:27. It didn’t happen for me while I stared at red-inked hearts scattered...

September 11th, 2009 | China, Feature, Korea | Read More