Adoption Lessons: Watching for Opportunities to Teach
Lessons of permanency are adoption lessons that I want cemented into the hearts of my children. They have a family, no matter what. I love Memorial Day Weekend I know all…
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Home and Family Have Brought me Happiness
It’s not houses, cars, manicured lawns or air conditioning that makes a home. “Home” is intangible but it is one of the greatest feelings we can ever have. Home and Family…
Adoption Love: It’s Complicated
If we focus on adoption love, rather than justifying our actions, we will be able to help children to learn how to have successful family lives. So when is Love the Enemy?…
Adoption Identity: The Complex Creation Puzzle
Adoption identity is often influenced by the child’s interpretation of who was at fault for the failure of their first family. The Truth. The Whole Truth. And Nothing but the Truth. Think…
Special Needs Adoption. It’s Not Just the Family and Child
Special Needs adoption adds an element of inconvenience to families, but I have never seen an inconvenience that is so much fun. It Wasn’t Just Our Family Adopting Jack. It Was Everyone.…
Family Wishes: The Family You Always Wanted
The failures in my future wife’s historical family settings had taught her by default, the things that she would use to construct her own list of family wishes. I Just Wouldn’t be…
Children's Adoption Emotions
In our home, adoption emotions are never wrong. You have the right to feel any way you feel. Dad… I miss my first mom. I used to hate her. Is that OK?…
My Sister, Other, We Find
I told my mom from the Amarica that we need to find a baby from the orphinige. I keep saying that we need to find baby, but that Sarah. And also it’s…
Complicated Adoption Process. Preparation: Part 3
The most important thing you will do in preparing for the complicated adoption process is to gather and research the most current information available. Part 3 of: Adoption is Extremely Complicated. Don’t…
Dreams of a Child for a Better Life
When I was a little girl, I used to dream of a better life. I wanted to be able to have amazing food. I wanted to live in a warm house and…
Complicated Adoption Process. Preparation: Part 2
The most important thing you will do in preparing for the complicated adoption process is to gather and research the most current information available. Part 2 of: Adoption is Extremely Complicated. Don’t…
Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it everyday. You have to fight for happiness.
If I had magic wand I would help children. And also help my sister Lidia and my mom Oksana. I would help my sisters and brothers to have good mom Oksana to…