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Lessons Learned: Part 3 Adoptees
Over the years my son has done much to educate his parents, all of us. One of the first lessons he taught us was that the things that we each worried about the most – worried him the least! For years...
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Never Saying Goodbye – Part 1
One of the key benefits to an open adoption is that a relationship is formed between adoptive and birth families, so a “Goodbye” at the hospital isn’t really a goodbye, it’s more like a “see you...
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Never Saying Goodbye – Part 2
I was so scared the morning we were to meet. Mom came along, she had been there the last time I saw Joe, she had kissed him goodbye too. When we arrived, my heart began racing as I saw them step out of...
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He’s My Brother!
“Your picture is in his room,” his mother had wrote. As usual, the questions I was too afraid to ask were the ones she sensed and answered before they were even asked. My son’s adoptive mother wrote to...
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Traditions and Reminisence
Every year since he was born, Tara, myself and Phoenix, along with my oldest son get together and have a small visit. I bring him presents, to say happy birthday with, and I watch my boys play...
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Hook Me up to Some Electrodes, I’m Ready to Adopt!
In college I studied psychology and got my degree in sociology. I’m the kind of nerd that chooses to still study that kind of stuff even though I’m no longer in school, there’s no test coming up, and...
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Extended Birth-Families Need to Heal Too
This post is an addition to my last post entitled “Hook Me Up To Some Electrodes, I’m ready for adoption…” Our second adoption was night and day different from our first adoption when it came to the...
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Drawing a Line Between Family and Family
I peel the top half of a banana and hold it out to my little boy. The little man, who is about two months shy of his second birthday, claps his hands and takes it from me with a smile. He bites off the...
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Making Promises in Adoption
“I’m going to vote for him because he reaches across the aisle,” some people say. I hate politics. I hate it but I can’t help but follow it. Following politics is one of those chores that I do because...
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Unexpected Disapointment
Open adoption use to scare me. I did not want to talk about it, find out any information about it, and I most certainly did not want to have one. I, of course, believed all the stereotypical gossip...
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