Category: adoption
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From Disappointment to Hope: Trusting God’s Love
My son asked for some of my candy bar. I gave him a piece of it. He responded with. “I love you mom.” My question for him was, “Do you still love me when I say no?” See I’ve found his love to feel more than a bit conditional. I…
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Exploring Birth Country: A Family’s Adoption Journey
Our family is preparing to take a trip to our child’s birth country for the first time since adoption of our daughter ten years ago. As soon as our daughter was old enough to talk, she wanted to go back to her birth country and see and experience everything we…
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Building Bonds: The Benefits of Contacting Birth Families
This post is for foster parents and/or adoptive parents who do have the option for birth family relationships. I know some adopted children are unfortunately not given any birth family information or option for contact. Children in those circumstances still need to be able to honor their lost family and…
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From Heartbreak to Happiness: My Foster Care Story
Just the other day: I was busy getting my youngest ready for a field trip to a local pumpkin patch. I was thinking only of getting our lunches together, and getting out the door on time. As I drove, it hit me. I’ve been to this pumpkin patch before. The…
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I am a plan B mom.
On this day in 2015 I danced with Anne Marie to the sound of a lady singing karaoke, as that lady did every night of the week while we were in Nanjing, China. A whole group of ladies would join in, and they would sing and dance for hours into…
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Sound of Hope: The True Pain, but also the HOPE found on the road of Fostering and Adoption
My husband, my two oldest children (13, and 12 years old), my parents, my in-laws, a close friend, and myself went to the early release of this movie, in June. I don’t know what it would feel like to watch that movie not having walked the road we have walked,…
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You’re adopted. The talk.
How do you tell your child that they were adopted? When do you tell your child that they were adopted? How much will they understand? What’s the right age? I seek to offer some advice and food for thought when it comes to answering these big questions. I am not…
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Just keep talking to Jesus
You guys ever have so many conflicting thoughts swirling and end up feeling exhausted and without an answer to the madness? Cool. Me too. I’ve found when I turn on the praise and worship, get in the presence of God through reading the Bible, or just stop talking to myself…
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God break my heart for what breaks yours.
I’ve prayed this often. I guess I might have thought God would just give me eyes to see what I wasn’t seeing. However, he instead gave me children that I would love with my whole being, and then allow me to see the troubles they face without them having done…
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Is there an antidote to fear?
I’ve been prone to be overcome by fear for as long as I can remember. When I was a little girl up until even a teen, if I needed to be left for any amount of time I was anxious. Extremely anxious. I always imagined my parents were dead, and…
The Road to You 