“I’ve never felt more out of control,” Becky told me last night shortly after four kids were read to, prayed with and tucked in. We were six months to a year away from adopting two to four siblings from Ethiopia when our social worker called asking if we’d foster-to-adopt a… Read More
Archive Tag: adoption
The Puzzle I Love
He speaks sentences of five or six words. He can put on his own shoes, get his own glass of water, throw away his trash after dinner, and use the toilet (most of the time) all on his own. He can count to thirty, name animals in pictures, recite his… Read More
The Kid Whisperer Meets S
My mom was the director of a daycare center for 27 years. Then she retired. For something like a week. Maybe two. And went back to work as a teacher’s aid in a public school classroom, loving on kids with various mental and physical setbacks all day. Ask her any… Read More
Second Best At Best
“What do you think of birth parents?” Kim asked. “What do you mean?” “Interpret the question any way you want,” she said. This was just one of dozens of questions Kim, our case worker, asked me during the interview portion of the adoption process. Just before the swimsuit competition but… Read More
Awake
This was our second day with S. And it was even better than the first day. (Wondering who “S” is? Read this.) I won’t tell you the hard stuff in this journey of ours. At least not in real time. And not for a long while. But you should know… Read More
This Much I Can Tell You (Updated)
Update: Yesterday, my site was hacked, causing all kind of weirdness – no one could order a CD, for instance. Coincidence? Nah. But the ever-brilliant Ben Stewart leapt to action, took the site down for a while, got under the hood and fixed it. All better. Take that, hackers. Thanks… Read More