In the last post I addressed sharing an adoption story with a young child. In this post, I want to share my experience with talking about adoption with slightly older kids. My two older adopted kids were 4 and 6 when they joined our family, and 5 and 7 when they were adopted. They are now 8 and 10. My 10 …
Dear Teachers,
It’s the end of another school year and it’s been a wild one. I know we all see how important teachers are! I could spend hours, days, and many tears gushing over how much I love teachers. Not because of our current learning situation but because their love for my kids changed my life. We have always been blessed with …
Navigating the sibling relationships
There are so many things that I look back on and wish I could have done differently those first several months when we added three additional kiddos to our home. However, if there is something that I feel like we did well it was how we navigated the sibling relationships in our home. We gave all the kids space… lots …
Attaching and bonding as an adoptive parent
Over the past three years, with foster and now 3 adopted kids, I feel like grace has been my word; the thing that keeps me going. Grace. Grace that allows myself to feel space and mercy in situations where I could so easily feel heaps of guilt. Don’t get me wrong, there are so many magical moments. There are moments …
The Bible & Adoption
I think about adoption daily. Literally every single day adoption thoughts swirl inside my head. I work in the adoption field. I’m part of adoption groups on social media. I have three adopted children. I think about adoption every single day. Every. Day. It’s ingrained into the very fabric of my being. I once heard the phrase at a …