I’d like to start this April Month-in-Review with a word about March. Most of you know that my co-blogger Ed Paul left. However he was a prolific writer here so there are many blogs in our archives to enjoy—check some out!
When Ed left, Rachel Whitmire (who wrote for the adoption blog before either Ed or I did) was ready to come back from her leave of absence–during which she picked up her toddler son Jayden from Guatemala! She has about ten blogs in the adoption blog in late March describing aspects of her journey and new motherhood. Check them out!
But the maddening, unpredictable, and wonderful rush of adoption goes on—Rachel is again on a leave of absence as the process heats up for the adoption of Lillian, a seven-year-old with a hearing impairment who waits in Liberia. Our thoughts are with her and we look forward to hearing her adoption story.
Now for the April blog entries: In Turning Down a Referral I share how we discovered, painfully, that the special needs of a little girl we wanted to adopt were just too much for us at that time.
In To Travel or Not to Travel, I shared that although I expected traveling vs. using an escort to be less disruptive for our daughter, the real benefit was to us, in seeing where she lived and how she was loved.
On Easter, I dared to ask how I’ll talk to my children someday if sharing our beliefs on God’s view of premarital sex makes them conclude that they were somehow not part of God’s plan. I wrote how I think of our children as Easter Children because they are God’s way of making a mistake into a miracle.
Last month I wrote a series on children’s books featuring adopted children.
(See below for links.) This month I profile adoption memoirs and informative books for adults in Books for Adults on Adoption from Korea and China and on Adult books on Adoption from Other Countries and on International Adoption in General.
I write about using children’s books (not specifically about adoption) to reassure adopted children of your love and give them a sense of what it means to love “forever”.
I told how the Adoption Tax Credit can in effect take $10,000 off the cost of adoption.
In Adopt a Child, or a Whale? I wonder if adoptive parents are making a mountain out of a molehill when we complain about “adopt-a-zoo-animal” –type programs, but then wonder what they say about the permanence of adoption.
Please see these related blogs:
Kids’ Books on Domestic Adoption and General Adoption Themes
Kids’ Books Starring Internationally Adopted Kids
Children’s Books on Adoption from China
Adoption Books for Children: Focus on Korea and Vietnam