What Does Adoption Mean to You?
It’s November, which means it’s National Adoption Awareness Month. What are you doing to celebrate? In honor of this very important month, I talked to several people whose lives…
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A Sensitive Way to Address Our Son’s Behavior Problems?
Thank you to those of you who have responded to my last post about the important, agonizing struggles of earning our newly adopted son's trust. I'm pleased to report that, in…
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Attachment and Adjustment: The Hard Work of Adoption
The honeymoon is over. My husband, Jeremiah, and our two daughters have comfortably settled into their individual roles of being members of our blended family of five. But Dylan, now…
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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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The Upside to Visibility
I’m the kind of person who’s mortified at the thought of being sung to on birthdays in public. I halfheartedly tried to convince my husband, Jeremiah, to elope because I…
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Adoption Attachment: Coping With Our Infant Son’s Grieving Process
I will never be able to fully explain the feelings I had as we finalized our adoption in Korea and as my husband, Jeremiah, and I spent the first few hours with our infant…
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Meeting Our Son in Korea
Last time, I told you about how our family is doing now—how our son, Dylan, home now from Korea for a month, and I are madly in love. That still…
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Falling in Love After Adopting
This isn’t what I expected would happen when we brought our infant son, Dylan, home from South Korea. Let me explain. I'm a parent-by-the-book type. I don't mean that I…
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Love, Not Looks, Defines a Family
Eighteen months ago, as we rushed to and from the set of required adoption seminars and group sessions—topics ranging from physical development to emotional attachment and international adoption to the…
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Discovering Unexpected Adoption-Related Themes in Disney Movies
Today, a copy of Disney's Tangled will arrive at our apartment. Having seen it and fallen in love with it when it came out in theaters, my two girls are…
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