LDS Adoption

I am a licensed special education teacher and I loved every second of my job! I’m currently taking time off to raise our children, but one day I hope to return to the classroom. I was always told that I must be a “special type of person” to take care of the students that I [...]

I honestly hope that I’m not crazy enough to have over one thousand fears about raising children, including adoption, but I may just be. I do tend to overanalyze situations and find the worst case scenario in most things sadly. In my defense, life never seems to come out as bad as I imagine so [...]

It’s that time of year when I get to be reminded of how little income our family truly makes. But I always feel better when I file our taxes and find out how much money we will receive as a return from the federal, and state, government. Before the money is deposited into our checking [...]

I’m going to start off by saying I’m not the typical LDS woman. Yes I did go to a LDS college and marry my FHE brother, but I can’t say my great grandpa crossed the plains in a wagon either. I became a member of the LDS church when I was almost 17 so a [...]

In the June 16, 2007 issue of “Church News” is an adoption story that touched my heart. The Ozair and Rosicler Ribeiro family of Brazil already had three biological children when Ozair, a fireman, helped rescue a premature infant boy who’d been abandoned in a sewage ditch. The baby spent 45 days in the [...]

In a previous post, I wrote about meshing the China my mind imagined and the real China I’ve come to know and love. I struggled with the poverty I witnessed in our daughter’s home province, but determined that I would do something to help.
When the time came for us to visit Haiti, [...]

When our family vacations, we typically either pay through the nose for large family suites at hotels, or we book two rooms (always hoping for adjacent rooms but rarely getting them) and deal with the inconvenience of having our family and belongings split up.
Last week, however, we stayed in a rental vacation home [...]

In my last post, I wrote about “comedienne” Chelsea Handler’s comments about Angelina Jolie’s adoptions – specifically why she chose to adopt internationally, and why she changed her Vietnamese son’s name to Pax. (Did ya notice how I put “comedienne” in quotes? Yeah. That’s because she’s not so funny.)
Anyway, for some time [...]

Adopting internationally has changed me in ways I hadn’t anticipated. When we first decided to adopt from China, I had a very limited understanding of how everything would work and how I would be affected. Understandably, I suppose, I thought only about the child we would be adopting and how blessed our family [...]

Did you happen to catch tonight’s “Late Show with Jay Leno?” If you did, then you probably caught guest Chelsea Handler’s comments about Angelina Jolie and her adoptions, not to mention her [obnoxious] racist innuendo about Asians being bad drivers and Vietnamese being good at doing nails.
If you didn’t see it, I’ll summarize and [...]