It is odd to think about child care for your future child–most women may check out child care options when they are expecting, and if that is the case, they have an anticipated due date and an anticipated date when they will need to have their child enrolled child care. Exploring child care for an “unknown” child–before you have been matched with a potential placement, feels odd. But a little leg work early on can reduce stress later on.

It’s funny– for  all of the open adoption stories I’ve heard/read, for every 5 where the adoptive family is in touch and/or has a relationship with the birth mom, there’s usually only one of those …

Here in Central Indiana, school’s out for the summer. In other places, the countdown is on until the last day of school.
Some children will have summer school, others will have weeks of scheduled camps. Many …

Awhile back we had an interesting year of MaM being diagnosed with multiple food allergies via blood test. A year later, she was retested using a scratch test, and everything came back negative. Shortly thereafter, …

For the time being though, it is my job (and my husband’s) to develop and maintain a relationship with the members of the birth families who are interested in doing so.

When I became a mom, I wondered when Macey would start to understand and anticipate holidays. I wondered when she would start remembering holidays from one year to the next. I now have my answer. …

Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe book  Baby Smarts: Games for Playing and Learning by Jackie Silberg is a simple, no-nonsense book with useful information. It outlines developmental milestones for babies 0-12 months of age, …

Sunday I opened the newspaper to another heart breaking story. Another story of another child killed either intentionally or accidentally at a home where the Department of Child Services has already been asked to become …

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 …

Adoption entered our lives in a very personal way five years ago this month. Five years ago, my husband and I walked out of our RE’s office for the last time. He had handed us …