Parenting Tips for Adoptive Parents of Adopted Children

Most adoptive parents adopt to expand their family because they have love and a home to share with a child.  When I started my adoption proces

Many of us are familiar with the question, posed jokingly, “Where’s the instruction manual?” when it comes to a newborn baby, and first-time

Congratulations, and welcome to your adoption journey! Though every adoption is unique, this one is yours, and hopefully, this guide will give you

I think fondly of the birth moms I know. The many women who have grown a child deep inside them, delivered the child, and entrusted that child to n

Does anyone remember the old Jeff Foxworthy bit about “You might be a redneck”? Like, “If you mow your lawn and find three trucks up on cinde

I believe that mothers have this inexplicable gift of just knowing. It is the eyes-on-the-back-of-my-head theory. Ancient Romans believed we are bu

6:00 a.m.: Wake up. No, really wake up. I don’t care that you were up until 3 a.m. with the baby who was crying for mommy (ya know, the mommy who

One of my favorite quotes is, “However motherhood comes to you, it is a miracle”. I have never found truer words floating around the internet.

I will never forget the day I approached my mother and shared with her that we were going to begin the adoption process. With a stunned look on her

We live in a digital age. Most of us have at our fingertips technology that our grandparents’ generation didn’t dream of. The world has gotten