Adopted: for the Life of Me

I was home sick last night. As I curled on my couch, flipping through channels, I stopped at my local PBS station  because my cable box told me the program was called “Adopted: for the Life of Me”. There was no more program information available, but I stop for anything labeled adoption, even for just [...]

Friday Fast Five - Children's Books

(I know, I missed the first Friday – sorry!)

We read a LOT of books in our house. Lots and lots and lots. In fact when we were still in Florida when Abby was an infant, we took a trip to a bookstore and simply *had* to buy her a book. It wasn’t fair for us [...]

Review – American Family Collection of Fabrics

I got an email last week from the owner of this awesome etsy shop. The shop owner is an adoptive mom and also a rocking textile designer who has created a line of fabrics to celebrate families of all different stripes. As she told me in an email, “I am a textile designer and mama [...]

Book Review: 100 First Words

Title: 100 First Words

Author: Roger Priddy

Get It Here: 100 First Words

This isn’t an adoption book – it’s just a kids book – but it’s a fantastic option for multi-racial families.

There are tons of big board books along the same lines as this one, but this book just does it better. It has big, colorful, simple [...]

Book Review: Why I Chose You

Title: Why I Chose You: 100 Reasons Why Adopting You Made Us A Family

Author: Gregory E. Lang

Buy it Here: Why I Chose You (100 Reasons)

I found this book on a read-and-return bookshelf in a hotel lobby 1000 miles from my house. I was attending a conference that I hadn’t attended since Abby was born, in [...]

Five Favorite New to Adoption Resources

Five of Our Favorite Adoption Resources

New to adoption and don’t know where to start looking for information?  Here are our five favorite resources:

1.  The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Adoption by Christine Adamec

Nothing personal!  This book is a great starting point when you just have no idea which way to go.  International or Domestic or Foster/Adopt?  [...]