Packing Up and Moving On: What We Wish We Knew 10 Years After Adopting
As we navigate through this mix of excitement and nostalgia, I can't help but think about a few things I wish we had known back when we were fresh to the whole post-adoption scene.
On Grief, Love and Openness
Things don't have to be perfect to be important, meaningful, and worthy and neither do people. I am committed to loving my children so wholly, that I accept every part of their story and everyone who is a part of it.
Form 34: Child’s Consent to Adoption - What I Would Have Done Differently
Think about the trauma that this meeting could have or may have caused my oldest child. Was it necessary? Could it have been done differently?
Adoption and Divorce
Divorce is far from an ideal situation, but as the saying goes: “When Mom is well, the kids are well.”
“Un-Trying” the Holidays
Consider a dictionary definition of the word holiday: “a day of festivity or recreation when no work is done”. Wow. I am fairly certain that if I go with this definition, I have not had a holiday since 2001 (the last year that I was child free).