My daughter at 3 months (all earlier photos are on film) Adoption Tale – Adopting as a Single Woman It’s been awhile since I have done a adoption post and wanted to revisit it on a ongoing basis. Today’s post recounts the day I found I was going to be a mom. It’s a long […]
Adoption Tale – Is She Really Adopted
Recently, one of my daughter’s classmates came up to me and asked “Is she really adopted?” “Yes,” I said and off she went. Of course, I am thinking to myself, Noisy brat. Her mother then commented that she thought it was amazing that my daughter is so comfortable with saying it to people. In some respects, […]
November is National Adoption Month
As someone who became a family through adoption, this is a topic near and dear to my heart. Everyone is different but I am hoping that if you are interested in adoption that you follow up with AdoptUsKids (http://www.adoptuskids.org) as an option in becoming a family. The mission of AdoptUsKids is to recruit and connect […]
Adoption Tale – Buy Buy Baby: Saviour or Nightmare
Going backwards in time, I wanted to provide you with a story about the preparations before I went to pick up up my daughter at the adoption agency. This story takes place on Friday, 3 days after I was told that I was going to become a mother. Yes, they called on Tuesday and wanted […]
5 Things to Consider Adopting as a Single Woman
When people find out that I adopted, they have a whole host of questions for me. I suppose the reason is that it is fairly uncommon to find a single African-American women adopting on their own. I don’t exactly fit the stereotype, right? For the most part, I am pretty comfortable about answering questions. I […]
Adoption Agency Celebration Was A Breeze – No more birth mother questions
Last week, I mentioned that my daughter wanted to know if her birth mother was coming to the 15th Celebration of the Adoption Arc, the agency where I adopted my daughter from. Lo and behold, there was not one follow up question all weekend. Funny, right. My instinct tells me she was so excited about […]
Is My Birth Mother Coming?
We are off to Philadelphia this weekend to attend the 15th Anniversary Celebration of Adoption Arc, the agency where I adopted my daughter. My daughter knows she is adopted and has several friends who are also adopted so I don’t think she feels alone in her situation but I thought this event would be a […]
Upcoming Posts on Adoption
If you haven’t read my about page, you are most likely unaware that my daughter is adopted. I adopted my daughter when she just two weeks old. She is now 6 1/2 years old. We are reaching a critical development stage where questions about her birth parents are intermittently popping up. Because of our family’s […]
