For adoptive parents and kids, the focus just always seems to be on the birth mother. That is the way it has been for my daughter and myself. My daughter has never once ever expressed interest or had questions about her birth father. She has had over the years asked to meet her birth mother […]
Thankful for My Daughter’s Birth Mother’s Mature Decision
I never met my daughter’s birth mom. Not that I didn’t want to, she just chose not to meet me. I am sure it was not an easy decision to let another woman raise her baby girl but every day since the day I found I was going to be a mom I thank her […]
5 Helpful Tips for Those Thinking of Adoption #Adoption
5 Tips for Those Thinking of Adoption Friends and family are always introducing me to people that are interested in adopting. Certainly, the requirements have changed in recent years, whether you are adopting internationally or domestically, but the pre-work hasn’t changed. And for the most part, even if you use several agencies, there is little […]
The Call that Changed My Life Forever #Adoption
But it’s only Tuesday, … And so it began, a morning like so many before, staring wistfully out my window at the Statue of Liberty. I began to run through all the items on my to do list
3 Tips to Handling Awkward Adoption Questions – Growing Up Adopted
Tips to Handle Awkward Adoption Questions Where are you from? Where’s your father? How come you don’t look like your mom? Why didn’t your mom want you? Did it cost a lot of money to adopt you? Is she really adopted? Is her dad tall? These are just some of the awkward questions that have […]
Spence – Chapin Offers Post-Adoption Workshops
Spence- Chapin is a well-know adoption agency in New York City and throughout the country. While I worked with Adoption Arc in Philadelphia, Spence-Chapin is also known for offering parents post -adoption workshops. As any adoptive parent knows, adopting is an on-going developmental and learning process that doesn’t stop once you bring your child home. […]
I am not the babysitter
I am not the Babysitter One of the unspoken but extremely visible New York occurrences is the number of black nannies that populate the city. I have always found this fascinating phenomenon that we truly have not come that far from days before slavery was abolished. Rich white folks with black nannies. Anyone with eyes […]
4 Tips for New Single Mom Sandra Bullock
As Sandra Bullock to the long list of celebrities who adopt. Of course, if you have been living under a rock, we all know that Sandra Bullock is now the proud mom of a baby boy, Louis Bardo Bullock. As you can surmise from my blog name (duh), I am also a single mom. I […]
Sandra Bullock adopts a baby boy – From one adoptive single mom to another Congrats
Photo courtesy of People Magazine Imagine everyone’s surprise (or shock) this morning to the news that Sandra Bullock adopted a baby boy. I actually cried when I saw the People cover, I was so excited for her. I know, I know, I am talking about her like I know her but it says something about […]
Jillian Michael’s Offensive and Misguided Adoption Quote
Jillian Michaels needs a course in why one adopts. Last year, I met Jillian Michaels at an event promoting her fitness dvds and while hey, I met her for only a few minutes, you could tell she was committed to being fit. So it does not come as a surprise that she does not want […]