The Miracle of Adoption
After my husband and I had our first child, I marveled at the miracle of birth. Before we brought home our daughter, adopted from Ethiopia, I had not thought about…
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The Perfect Blend
It's been almost three months—seriously, three months?—since we brought our son, Dylan, home from Korea, and if it's seemed to you that I've been writing on my blog on AdoptiveFamiliesCircle…
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“Can’t You Have Kids Of Your Own?”
“Wow, he is so little. How old is he?” asked a stranger sitting next to us in a waiting room at a pediatrician’s office in Florida, the state we'd traveled…
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Farewell, Fire Truck: Milestones of Becoming a Family
We've been working on clutter clearing at our house recently. I asked my son, Gobez, adopted from Ethiopia, to go through his room and pull out anything he no longer…
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Family Reunion: Meeting the Biological Siblings for the First Time
After a full day of traveling to the little Indiana town where our daughter, Beth (now 2), was born, our first open-adoption visit with our daughter's biological family is about…
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“Why Do You Have an Open Adoption?”
"Do you want to join my friend Molly and me for a girls’ night out, dinner and a few drinks?” my friend Sarah asked me not too long ago. "Yes!…
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Farewell to The Yin and the Yang
One year and nine months ago, I posted the first entry of The Yin and the Yang on AdoptiveFamiliesCircle. The post, titled "Best Laid Plans," introduced our family formed by…
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Behind the Numbers on Children Waiting in Foster Care
From middle school through college, I remember teachers often used statistics as a weapon to persuade my peers and me to take, or not take, a particular action. For example,…
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How Much Did It Cost for You to Get Your Son?
"How much did it cost for you to get your son?" There it was again. Recently, my neighbor Sally asked me one of those questions that my husband and I are so…
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Family Reunion With Biological Mom, Part I
My husband, Tony; our daughter, Beth; and I are on our way to catch our flight at Newark for our first family reunion with our daughter’s biological mother, Kim. However,…
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