December 02, 2016

Adoption News Roundup

Hello, friends!

We hope your week is going wonderfully. Here are a few reads that have caught our eye this week…hopefully they provoke a bit, make you think, and/or give you a burst of inspiration and a smile.

Some thoughts on getting through the holidays as you wait to adopt.

What can your kids learn from volunteering?

How to survive your first few years of the adoption journey…

Should you spy on your kids?

Adoption doesn’t have to be unaffordable.

On going from one to two children, and the insanity and ease of it all.

You’ve always wanted to adopt…”but?” This adoptive father puts all your adoption “buts” to the test!

Looking for some holiday crafts for you and your kids to play around with? Love these DIY Advent calendars! (Not for everyone of course, but they’re cute so we wanted to share).

“What I never expected when I met my birth parents.”

“Mom and I could talk about everything except adoption.”  “In the early 1980’s, adoption was beginning to come out into the open. For the first time, Dad mentioned that adoption records needed to kept sealed for privacy. Communicating about adoption was a closed subject between my parents and me.”