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... Read More →
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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... Read More →
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.... Read More →
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... Read More →
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... Read More →
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... Read More →
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... Read More →
My Sister, Other, We Find
[I hate to tell her story first. But Emily’s version is a little complicated to understand without some background that kind of gives it away. I... Read More →
To Sing Frogs Epilogue
Epilogue Time Marches On In September of 2011 I returned to visit Russia as I do from time to time. During my stay the region was... Read More →
To Sing Frogs Chapter 45c
Friday morning found a somber group around the breakfast table. We pretended to be Read More →
To Sing Frogs Chapter 45b
Thursday evening was more like a dream than an event. The villa was packed. It was as much a Read More →
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