November 14, 2020

Have a Safe and Healthy Weekend

We’re thinking of you, dear friends, as COVID cases spike across the country, and we enter into a season marked by community and togetherness. Be well; take care of yourselves and your community. Sending you all our love.

Here are some of our favorite reads this week:

On our blog: where do you start once you’ve decided you want to place your child for adoption? 

Nobody understands your journey more than your peers: find your birth mom community. 

Lessons for white parents raising Black children. 

Chicago Now’s “30 Adoption Portraits in 30 Days” explores widely varying adoption stories. 

From one friend to another: an adoption story. 

These birth mothers are sharing their own words about open adoption. 

Did you find out that your favorite book from childhood didn’t age so well? 

Baylor University demonstrates ways to support the birth mother in your life on her adoption journey. 

Joanna Goddard practices “slow parenting” and shares her tips for getting her family outside during the winter. 

To my son’s birth mother: thank you.