We recently listen to an old Focus on the Family series on parenting and homeschooling. Where Dr. Dobson was interviewing Lisa Whelchel, the author of Creative Correction and actress that played Blair on on the 1980′s sitcom Facts of Life. In the interview she talked about her reason for homeschooling, not all the auxillary reasons …
Play seems so natural, so second nature. We often comment how; “When we were kids (fill in the blank).” We weren’t inhibited with lack of creativity. We played in the woods, climbed trees, rode bikes to burger king by ourselves. Were the days really that much safer? Were we just more acutely aware? or Were …
Yesterday, I wrote about the realities of adopting older children. Today, I want to write about the added challenge of adopting multiple children at once. -2 Challenges of multiple child adoption!- To compound the challenges of older children, adopting more than 1 child presents it’s own set of challenges and benefits. Being school age and …
Sticking with the analogy of clay and adoption… I continue with this thought from yesterdays post. We have seen that it takes more and more time to shape, bend, guide and reshape. Because their little bodies, hearts and minds have more to overcome because of their prior circumstances. They get dried faster than the well …
For those that don’t keep up with Adoption world life. The month of November is celebrated in America as the National Adoption Month. This month’s posts for me will focus on adoption. Most basic adoption questions have been answered in other posts related to adoption on this site (search “Adoption”), so this month I will …
Well today has been quite a day. Supermom woke up super early this morning and corralled the two youngest ones off with her to the dentist. We are trying to get our bi-annual checkups completed. I followed them to the dentist with the oldest. Now, a trip to the dentist is always a bummer deal …
Supermom and I were driving to the city the other day when she read an update on her phone from one of the adoption forums she keeps up with. In it, it declared something that made us sad. In december of 2010 the Adoption Tax Credit is set to phase out. For those that are …
Children are some of the most resilient things I know. When people abuse children I believe God’s heart truly breaks. Sometimes when I consider what we are going through as it relates to our children, I want to excuse it away with, “…well, they’re adopted!” Sometimes, we don’t know what to do! How do you …
This is by far one of the best reasons to adopt. Today we picked up my mother and little brother from the airport. We brought them to our house and settled in for the night. We tucked the kids into bed and began to wind down, when supermom says, “Honey, we (means ME) should turn …
Over the last couple of weeks supermom and I have been keeping close eyes on a subject that is dear to our hearts….No, not the "economic" crisis we seem to be in, (we’ll talk about that in later posts) but the tragedy of our agency. When seraching for adoption agencies, a couple years …