Open Adoption Workshop

If you’re wondering if open adoption is right for you, and you’re in the Colorado area, register for this upcoming workshop, given by Lori , who is a member of our adoption forums, along with her daughters birthmother. Thinking About Open Adoption? “Just adopt.” you’ve heard, as if it’s no big deal. But it is. It’s common for couples looking into domestic infant adoption to feel...

Adoption on HallmarkChannel.com

HallmarkChannel.com is featuring several different adoption stories called “Adoption: Real Families, Real Stories”. There’s thirteen different videos, each featuring different adoption stories. Have a box of tissues handy. My daughters & I have been enjoying them! Share

Successful Adoption Travel

The Top 10 Secrets of Successful Adoption Travel by Carrie Howard The adoption trip is a defining moment in a family’s life, the event that brings parent and child together at last. Virtually all adoptive parents travel to meet their new child, to a nearby city, to another state, or to a distant country. The adoption trip is a defining moment in a family’s life, the event that brings parent and child together at last....

Adoption Poems

These would be a great addition to an adoption lifebook. You can also print one out in a nice font, frame it and hang it near your front door.   ~ Our Family Tree ~ We’ve added to our family tree A stronger one to make A child from another plant Has become our new namesake. Just as a limb is grafted From one tree to another, It alters and improves the plant Making it, uniquely, like no other. Our family tree has...

What Do You Want People To Know About Adoption?

I asked the wonderful mamas at the adoption support forum on Maya’s Mom what they wanted people to know about adoption. Here’s what they had to say. (I’ll update this post as more replies come in) 1: Adoption is not second best, second choice or a last resort to parenthood. It is simply an alternate route I dreamt of adopting as a little girl just as I dreamt of being pregnant. Both of my dreams came true....

13 Ideas For Celebrating An Adoption Anniversary

  Are you looking for ways to celebrate or acknowledge the anniversary of your finalization day? 1: Lighting candles to honor those who made the adoption possible. 2: Family activities such as a picnic or a day at an amusement park. 3: Purchasing a gift that represents the child’s birth heritage such as the country they were born in. 4: Display or fly the flag of the child’s birth country in the front yard. 5:...

Adoption Lifebooks

The Life Book Story: Vera Fahlberg It is difficult to grow up to be a psychologically-healthy adult without having had to one’s own history. Traditionally, the family is the repository of knowledge about the child. Children separated from their families of origin do not have daily access to this source of information about their personal histories. It becomes more difficult for them to develop a strong sense of self...

Adoption Forums

To celebrate our recent move from ezboard to our own server, we’re having our very first contest over at our adoption forums! While I try and figure out the best way to transfer five years worth of postsfrom ezboard to our new forums, we still have a brand new place to fill and this contest is being run with that in mind.There’s more information about the contest at the adoption forums, but basically the member...

Adoption Forums

Our new adoption forums are ready for you to join! When the Forever Parents adoption forums was first created in 2002, we started on the msn boards, but quickly out grew them and moved to ezboard in 2003, where we’ve been…until last week. We’ve joined the big leagues and are hosting our own forum (phpBB) on a shared (for now-maybe a dedicated one will be in our future) server (host gator). Our adoption...

29 Adoptions in Seattle Finalized on National Adop...

Court finalizes 29 adoptions By PAUL NYHAN P-I REPORTER Most parents meet their children in the delivery room, a few even earlier in their dreams, but Kymberli Nelson met her daughter Maci in the emergency room. Three years ago, a foster care coordinator called Nelson to ask if she would take on the severely malnourished baby girl, though only if Maci survived the night. Nelson didn’t hesitate, driving her Cadillac to...

Presidential Proclamation for 2007 National Adopti...

2007 President’s Proclamation National Adoption Month, 2007 During National Adoption Month, we recognize the adoptive and foster families who have shared their homes and hearts with children in need, and we encourage more Americans to consider adopting young people of all ages. Families who adopt show the generous spirit of our Nation. Every child desires a permanent home, and when parents adopt a child to love as their...

Adoption Poems

Any of these would look great in your child’s adoption lifebook or framed and on their wall. ************************** My heart felt something missing. At the time, I didn’t know that “something” Would become my reason for living. I don’t know why our life together began so far apart. How could I have known A faraway land held the missing beat of my heart? From distant places with...

National Adoption Month

Hello…I’ll be back to regular posting and what better way to start than to blog about National Adoption Awareness Month and National Adoption Day on November 17. On National Adoption Day 2007 – Saturday, November 17 – an unprecedented number of courts and communities across the nation will come together to finalize thousands of adoptions of children from foster care and to celebrate all families who adopt....

Adoption Quotes

Here are more great adoption quotes. They can be hung in a nice frame, maybe stenciled on a child’s wall or used as part of your child’s adoption lifebook. To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing. -Rosie O’Donnell My adoption was treated as a celebration. -Michael Reagan I...

Adoption Lifebooks

Adoption Scrapbooks: by Vera Raposo Unless someone has experienced the entire adoption process firsthand, no one can truly appreciate what is involved in this long haul. Some couples know right from the start that they will adopt. Others however don’t begin the application process until after years of disappointment. Either way, the end result – a beautiful child – makes the journey all worthwhile. The gift of a...

Adoption Poems

Here’s a few adoption poems that would be great framed and hung in your child’s room or in their adoption lifebook. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My child, I carried you in my heart before you were even born And dared to dream that you were real.My child, I carried your picture with me since the day I received it, And dared to love a child I was yet to meet. My child, I carried you in my arms at last, and gazed in...

Adoption Poems

These poems would make a great addition to your child’s adoption lifebook! You first came to us in an envelope With letters, forms and such Just two tiny little pictures With nothing warm to touch. You grew in our imagination In our hearts and in our minds. You brought us greater joy Than we ever thought we’d find. A phone call started labor pains Which lasted ’til we met Strangers brought together A day we...

Katherine Heigl Should Think Before She Speaks

Katherine Heigl, from Grey’s Anatomy, told USA Today that she has ruled out having biological children, saying that she’s always planned to adopt. That’s great…I love when people want to adopt. I wish more people would. But this next remark pisses me off. “I’m done with the whole idea of having my own children”. Does Katherine think when when she adopts they won’t be her...

Gay Couple Who Sued Adoption.com, Settle

As a follow-up to the store about the gay couple who sued adoption.com, they have settled their lawsuit. Under the terms of a settlement, ParentProfiles.com, a sister company to Adoption.com, cannot post profiles of California residents “unless the service is made equally available to all California residents qualified to adopt in California.” That means the defendants have a choice: to either “treat...

Adoption Myths

According to Six Common Adoption Myths Dispelled, we should “become educated about adoption and it will help you be equipped to separate adoption facts from fiction”. They list the six myths as; 1. There are no healthy infants available for adoption in the U.S. 2. It takes years to complete an adoption. 3. Single people can’t adopt. 4. Birth mothers are typically teens. 5. Infants available for adoption in the...

Adoption Lifebooks

Thirteen Things to include in an adoption lifebook 1. Information on where your child was born. I requested information on the visitors website where my children were born.2. Print out a “On the day you were born” from this site. 3. Photographs of those who were involved such as case workers, agency staff, foster parents, etc. 4. Photographs of birthfamily, if you have it. 5. A page of your thoughts when you...