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Talking About My Daughter’s Birth Story

Our two-year-old daughter is still a bit too young to understand the complexities of adoption, but that doesn’t stop us from speaking about adoption on a regular basis. It helps…
- Posted by Kristy Hartley-Galbraith to Adoption: Not Just My Profession, My Life 2 months, 3 weeks ago | 0 Comments | Post a reply
Reflections on My Daughter’s Second Birthday

Today is a special day. Our daughter, R, is turning two. Today has also brought with it a lot of reflection. Not a day goes by when I don’t think…
- Posted by Kristy Hartley-Galbraith to Adoption: Not Just My Profession, My Life 3 months ago | 0 Comments | Post a reply
Interview with Lucky Bastard Filmmaker and Adoptee, Elijah Thomas

Elijah Thomas was adopted at three months old and grew up in a closed adoption. When he was 18, he met his birth mother for the first time. When he…
- Posted by Barbara Herel to Improv Mom 5 months ago | 0 Comments | Post a reply
3 Ways I Am #RockingMotherhood

First, let me send out a shoutout to TheMomproviser blogger, Ambar Chavez, for cluing me in about the #RockingMotherhood challenge and making me write, ha! OK, here are three ways…
- Posted by Barbara Herel to Improv Mom 5 months, 2 weeks ago | 0 Comments | Post a reply
An Adoptive Mom’s Movie Review of Lion

Okay, this post isn’t actually a review of the Oscar-nominated movie Lion. It’s more like—here’s what deeply moved this adoptive mama after watching, tissue box in hand, the true story…
- Posted by Barbara Herel to Improv Mom 7 months ago | 2 Comments | Post a reply
6 Adoption Questions from Hopeful Adoptive Parents

Now that I’m seven-plus years into parenting a child who was adopted from infancy, I intimately know the complexity of being an adoptive family. Although I’m positive I’ll never stop…
- Posted by Barbara Herel to Improv Mom 11 months ago | 0 Comments | Post a reply
Love Makes a Family

Many families here are used to getting intrusive questions, especially if you adopted transracially. I know my family has over the years since adopting from Ethiopia. Recently, I saw a…
- Posted by Ellenore Angelidis to Melting Pot Family 1 year ago | 2 Comments | Post a reply
Winging It

I tend to throw my entire being into situations. I feel first, ask questions later—which is basically how I have been approaching my open adoption from the start. Yep, just…
- Posted by Barbara Herel to Improv Mom 1 year, 1 month ago | 0 Comments | Post a reply
Listen to Your Mother

There’s a little storytelling showcase that is gaining a lot of national attention—it’s called Listen to Your Mother (LTYM). I’m happy to be part of it and would be extra…
- Posted by Barbara Herel to Improv Mom 1 year, 1 month ago | 0 Comments | Post a reply
Moments of Sadness Brought Me Closer to My Child’s Birth Parents

The world of adoption is filled with the voices of adoptive parents, and less so with adoptees’ and birth parents’ perspectives. Because of this, it is common to hear about…
- Posted by Kristy Hartley-Galbraith to Adoption: Not Just My Profession, My Life 1 year, 3 months ago | 2 Comments | Post a reply
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