List/Grid Adopt & Foster Subscribe RSS feed of category Adopt & Foster
Some Advice For Talking With An Adoptive Parent
If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that I am a transracial, adoptive mom. In many circles a transracial family is also known as a conspicuous family given that the parents are usually one ethnicity and the child another. In our case, my husband and I are Caucasian and our son, The Littlest E, is Ethiopian. I’ve been a mom now for 18 months and along the way have had a number of conversations…
The Gift Of Adoption
November is National Adoption Month and, since my life was touched by adoption when we brought our son home with us from Ethiopia fifteen months ago, I felt it important to write about the precious gift that is adoption. I was calculating how long The Littlest E has been with us and can’t believe it’s only been fifteen months. It seems like he’s been with us forever, and I mean that in the best of…
Reflections On Family
Today, August 2, 2011, marks the year anniversary of the day we took custody of our son, The Littlest E, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In the adoptive world people often refer to this day as “Gotcha Day.” We like to call it our Family Day because it was the day we became a family. I’ve been reflecting a lot on what family means to me, and thought it only fitting to share those reflections on…
Why International Adoption?
I want to say right off the bat that I am in favor of family formation by any legal means, whether it is biologically, through Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), domestic or international adoption or foster care. Every couple has their own path to becoming parents. I believe people who want to be parents, eventually become parents, though sometimes it may not be in the way they had initially imagined. As with many other couples, adoption…
Our First Moments As Parents
I became a mom just a little over 10 months ago at the age of 45. Our journey to be a family took 6½ years that began with trying the old fashioned way, then trying Assisted Reproductive Technology, then attempting to adopt a baby from China (which went on and on and on). Finally, we ended up adopting The Littlest E (for Elliott) from Ethiopia. I thought a good introduction would be to share my/our…
LET’S CONNECT