I visited with my daughter-to-be for six weeks before she moved in with me. It was supposed to be a time for her to begin getting used to the idea of moving to a new family. I’m actually fairly sure there was no preparing her for the huge change that was to come. I, on [...]
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New adoptive parent? When feeling out of control, focus on food.
Any of you out there adopt older children who you struggled to get to eat anything that didn’t come handed out a drive-through window in a greasy bag?
I had a multitude of challenges when my daughter finally moved in with me—her anger at leaving her beloved foster parents powering most of them—but the fact that [...]
Hopping Mad
Here’s what Rev. Jason J. McGuire, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, had to say about the marriage equality vote yesterday in the New York Senate (and no, I’m not linking to those people):
Today’s vote results from the efforts made by a bipartisan, multiracial alliance united in support of the proposition that marriage [...]
The Beginnings….
Have you ever heard of an “accidental adoption”?
Okay, you’re probably thinking there’s no such thing.
After all, in order to adopt you must do a variety of things that you can hardly do without meaning to. Things like showing caseworkers your home. Leaving your fingerprints at the local police station for posterity. Clearing out the bedroom [...]