Adoption and Name Changing (the philosophy)
When people find out three of my children are adopted, they will often ask about their names. Did we keep their birth names? How did we decide? There are lots of theories about adoption and names...
View ArticleAfrican Babies Don’t Cry?
A couple different times I have managed to run across this article that claims that “African babies don’t cry”. The author (an African doctor and mother) explains how whenever an African baby cries...
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Baby Holding- whose needs are being met?
You don’t have to know much about me to know that African orphans are close to my heart. My oldest son spent most of his first year of life in an orphanage in Liberia. He was small and sick when we...
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Baby Holding- does the good outweigh the bad?
(I’m so glad to have Melodie share her perspective on this topic. You can ready my introductory thoughts here.) Guest Post by Melodie Kejr Read more of her writing at her blog. Holding the precious...
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“But don’t you want kids of your own?”
This is an excerpt from a guest post of mine over at Fireflies and JellyBeans. I never thought I’d do a guest post at a crafting blog, but the ladies who run it are both adoptive parents and wanted to...
View ArticleConfession: I lock my car doors
“There are very few African American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. There are very few African...
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Domestic/International Adoption or Fostering? Both.
The adoption journey is intensely personal. Each family has to decide what they are best qualified to do and what resources they have available to them when they begin to research their options. For...
View ArticleAdoption Ethics and the Pendulum Swing
If you are involved in the world of international adoption, you will notice that recently the idea of “adoption ethics” has been getting much more attention. This is a good thing. As badly as potential...
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Don’t be Color Blind
We’ve been talking a lot about race at our house since Josh is out of school for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Well, the reality is that we talk about race a lot at our house all the time without it...
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Oh, to Grace how great a debtor
I realize when most people make the decision to become foster parents, they struggle with the idea of loving a child and letting them go. Who wants to sign up for that? How can you really love a child...
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The Kind of Mom They Made Me
I have a serious issue with baking bread. In my mind the world is divided into two kinds of women: those who bake bread and those who don’t. I have happily been in the “those who don’t” category for...
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Adoption, Roller Coasters and Risky Love
We took our kids to an amusement park over the summer. We had three kids that were tall enough to ride whatever they wanted and three that were only tall enough to ride the little kid rides. This works...
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