Open Adoption

Open adoption parenting: what I hope my children say one day

June 1, 2010

Open adoption bloggers are meeting at the roundtable to ponder these questions: Imagine your child as an adult describing their open adoption experience. What do you hope they will be able to say about you? How did you view their other parents? In what ways did you support their relationship with them? June 1, 2031 [...]

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And now there are four

May 12, 2010

Even though I’ve been a mom now for ten Mother’s Days, this most recent one brought a first as well as a completion. For the tenth year in a row, Tessa’s first mom called and we wished each other Happy Mother’s Day. For the third year in a row, Tessa’s first dad texted me Happy [...]

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How I embraced open adoption

May 4, 2010

Back when I wrote about my daughter’s reunion with her birth father, a reader asked about openness in adoption: Do you feel threatened at all (even though you don’t show it)? Do you wish YOU shared Tessa’s traits? Sure, it can seem so simple, but it isn’t really is it? Kami’s question about being a [...]

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In print

April 29, 2010

On Facebook a few months back  I cryptically updated about some good news I’d received. But I tend to not believe in the COMING of good luck; I trust only in the ARRIVAL of good luck. So I couldn’t be too specific about what the news was. But yesterday the proof arrived in the mailbox. [...]

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What if?

April 23, 2010

What if I hadn’t ended up with the children I have? The thought is an unsettling one. The adoption road is multi-forked with countless paths not taken. Indeed, all of one’s life is (each time you choose one thing you forgo the other things), but adoption tends to make a family especially aware of untrod [...]

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When you have more than two parents…

March 26, 2010

In my last post, I interviewed Cynthia of The Night Kitchen as part of the Open Adoption Bloggers Interview Project. Now I’d like to share here HER interview with ME, which you can also find on her blog. I am getting very close to forgiving her for asking me that last, very tough question. But [...]

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