ISSUES

I want to adopt and know that we should. Before I got married I told my then fiance that during our life we needed to adopt a baby. When we discovered that we had some infertility problems we thought that was God’s way of telling us it was time to adopt. When I went to [...]

We’re at that point when we need to make the call to an adoption agency to get the ball rolling. So last week I called the local LDS Family Services and asked the man 1,800,000 or so questions. I was looking forward to that phone call for almost a month and I naively thought I [...]

We all have those days when we just do not want to hear it! I know you have your opinion but please just keep it to yourself. I get like that a lot when I’m around my mother. She is the type of person who will tell anyone exactly how it is in the bluntest [...]

I’ve spent the last week at home with my parents for Mothers’ Day. My mom had the week off of work so we’ve been able to spend a lot of time together and talk about my childhood and my children. I told her that the doctor thinks the possibility of birthing more children would be [...]

Is there such a thing as “selfish adoption”? I am a believer that there are no deeds that are selfless. I don’t mean that there aren’t people who do things who do things out of the goodness of their hearts because I do believe that nice people exist. I just know that even if you’re [...]

After my last post I started thinking about how sometimes children don’t always end up the way we’d like. I think most, if not all, parents dream that their children all grow up to be intelligent, financially stable people who marry a wonderful person and lives happily ever after. I’m fairly confident that Timothy McVeigh’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In part one, I talked about how hurtful it can be to have adoption nay-sayers in your life, and in part two, I discussed ways we can remind ourselves that we’re doing the right thing, even in the face of negativity.
This section is all about talking through those unsolicited, negative comments!
If you’re like me, you’ve [...]