Maybe your spouse isn’t on board…yet. Maybe your kids are too little. Maybe you can’t afford it. Maybe you’re overwhelmed by the process. There are many reasons families are not ready to dive into the adoption process even if they want to. The good news is that there are a conglomeration of other ways to...
Author: Melissa
Taking the dog garden out
Every year we start seedlings inside and every year they either die before we can get them outside or they don’t survive a week once they get outside. Then we stomp out and buy pre-started plants or just re-sow straight into the ground. We’ve had the most success with sowing into the ground when we...
{#21} Bumps in the road
The adoption journey (specifically the journey of bringing your child home) will be full of bumps, delays, and uncertainties. So be prepared. Does that mean adoption isn’t worth it? NO. Jesus persevered through quite a few “bumps” to get us into His family. Are the bumps fair? NO. But then neither is life in general…at...
Incredibles
They’ve been roaming my house lately. And then dissappearing…as I hear one of them does.
Baseball and Birthday
Yikes! My oldest is officially 8 today! He came into the world determined to know how it worked and hasn’t stopped amazing us since. Baseball is currently running through his head…learning how to be a better batter, finding out he loves catching, keeping up with the Orioles (standings, schedules, and scores)…at least when he’s not...
{#20} Transparency
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about breaking down walls within the adoption community. This week I want to challenge adoptive families to evaluate the walls between them and the rest of the world. An adoptive mom recently posted the following in a transracial adoptive family forum: I had a conversation with a friend recently...
Nothing to Wear A Scarf
If you know me in real life, you know I’m a pretty simple gal when it comes to clothes. I prefer to think of it as “classic” rather than “dated” when I realize I have clothes in my closet with a lifespan older than my kids. Being budget-minded makes it really hard to keep up...
{#19} Attachment is a two-way street
Two hot words in the adoption community: attachment and bonding. There are probably as many differing definitions for each of these as there are licensed psychologists. For our purposes, let’s say bonding is the continuous cycle of a parent meeting the needs of a child in order to build trust. Attachment is the emotional bond...