This past year has been a really terrific experience for me. The opportunity to blog here has been a good one over all, with quite a bit shared about myself, as well as learned from others.

As I was looking back over my post for 2007, I began thinking about those that I am especially proud of, and those that I feel I was successful in capturing what I wanted to say. There are quite a few, and I wanted to take the opportunity to link back to them here, just in case you might have missed some of them.

Of course my kids are very important to me, and I blog about them... more

That’s right, today is my one year anniversary of blogging at Adoptionblogs.com, as hard as it might be for even me to believe! In place of the usual New Year’s eve party last December 31st, I was home watching the ball descend at Time’s Square on television, and posting my very first blog entry. I admit that I missed the ringing in of the new year because I was so anxious to get started on what I hoped would be a very exciting adventure sharing... more

I know I have commented before about some fellow adoptive parents, who feel they have the ability to totally understand the birthparent experience, and how much that attitude bugs me. I have been told time and time again, by the few who think they have it all figured out, how some of the rest of us just don’t “get it." As if some adoptive parents could ever really have a handle on what birthparents go through! My own belief is that no way do I know what it feels like to be a birthparent,... more

Recently, Heather refreshed the memory of her readers, by clearly sharing her core views about adoption. For those who might be a bit “hard of reading”, they were in bold so the point could be easily grasped. I was not surprised by anything there, her views have remained the same as they were years ago when she wrote a publication for the organization C.U.B., “What you should know if you are considering adoption for your baby”.

At... more

Last night I had a wonderful phone conversation with my friend and co-blogger Coley about her BirthMom Buds event this weekend. By all accounts it was an emotional, healing, supportive event, enjoyed by all the moms who attended. I send Kudos to my dear friend for being such a great person, a super friend to so many, and a mom both her children, placed and parented, can truly be proud of!

If you have never heard of BirthMom Buds I encourage a visit to the website... more

When you finally welcome a child through adoption like most parents you will experience a huge, almost undescribable surge of pride. Believe me you will want to show and tell the whole world how great your kids are, and who could blame you!

I remember in May, 2003 when my girls Danika and Cierra were 5 ½ years and 10 mons respectively I must have snapped a dozen pictures one day on our front porch, but their wonderful, giggly smiles in one particular photo was so sweet that I mailed it off to Adoptive Families Magazine for a possibility... more

Ok, today it hit me that I am quickly running out of month here!

I have been sick in some way or another so much these first two months blogging that I now find myself way, way behind. I am in high hopes that spring (which is just around the corner?) will bring some better health and a reawakening of my tired brain cells. I can tell you I am getting flustered though. I know full well I have beaten the uneventful “Dr. Phil Show” like a dead horse to get a post here and a post there and I am running out of clever, witty, informative stuff... more

Ok, time to fess up. I am one sick puppy.

I am not doing the things I so grandly planned when I began blogging here just yet. I also came down with some weird, viral thingy the same day I started that just will NOT let go of me. I am totally miserable!

So I have been stuck here on my couch attempting to muddle through this first week in a new year. I have put out a few posts that I thought were pretty... more

Return to Korea is a blog written by an adopted woman who, like the title suggests, is going back to the country she was born in. She’ll be there for three weeks experiencing the culture and hoping to reunite with her birth family.

This blog does not focus on open adoption, but I found it interesting and thought I’d share.

You can read her daily posts here.

Open adoption is a new idea to some pre-adoptive parents (and maybe some post-adoptive parents too). It can be a scary concept when all you’ve known is closed adoption.

It takes research and education to understand the benefits of open adoption and some soul searching to know if it’s the right fit for your family.

Read about one pre-adoptive woman’s experience here.