As many of you know November is National Adoption Month. As a mom who has adopted four this really hits home. Many of you know our story, which I wrote about in my book Adoption Combat Zone. For those of you who don’t know our story…well…get my book. I know there are many good adoption stories.…… Continue reading National Adoption Month
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Are You Being Manipulated?
Typical statement from an adopted teen wanting sympathy This is the part about adoption that gets me angry faster than any other. When family and friends who have known an adoptive parent for years, or in the case of parents and siblings, their entire lives, and those friends and family allow an adoptive child/teen to…… Continue reading Are You Being Manipulated?
Turning up like a bad penny…
I just read a news report out of Utah about a teenage adoptee named Joey who is now in foster care because “multiple families didn’t want him”. Poor Joey. I’m sure before too long someone will step up and rescue the poor orphan teen who only wants a forever family. Honestly, it makes me want…… Continue reading Turning up like a bad penny…
Blind Date!
There once was a beautiful and godly woman who had a heart of gold named Mary. Her friends loved her sweet, gentle, and giving spirit. She was single and everyone knew what Mary really wanted was to be married. To be a wife and mother. She prayed continually for a good man to come into…… Continue reading Blind Date!
Adoption – Legalized Human Trafficking – Part II – Conflict in the Adoption World!
I started writing this post last week and had to walk away. The original post for Legalized Human Trafficking garnered just a bit of controversial conversation, some of it hard to hear. Comments from other adoptive parents, for those of us still in adoption PTSD mode, comes across as condescending and a little harsh. That,…… Continue reading Adoption – Legalized Human Trafficking – Part II – Conflict in the Adoption World!
60 and 60 – Crazy Numbers!
I’m 60. It’s weird looking at that number. It seems like such a long time – 60 years. Yet I don’t feel like I’ve lived for 60 years. Then I look back at my life and realize just how much has been packed into it. At the same time I feel far from finished. There…… Continue reading 60 and 60 – Crazy Numbers!
P.S. – After the Book – Viktor Update
If you have read my book (Adoption Combat Zone) you’ll know that towards the end of the book we bailed Viktor out of jail in January 2017 for driving on a suspended license and owing more than $5,000 to three different court jurisdictions. He was in way over his head. This after moving out on…… Continue reading P.S. – After the Book – Viktor Update
Lessons from Jacob – Trust & Patience
Genesis 25:21-23 And Isaac prayed to Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. And Yahweh answered his prayer, and Rebecca his wife conceived. And within the children struggled together, and she said, “If all is right, why am I this way?” So she went to ask Yahweh, and Yahweh said to her, “Two nations…… Continue reading Lessons from Jacob – Trust & Patience
Yahweh Can Use the Flawed and Broken
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get into bed, exhausted, then toss and turn for hours before finally falling asleep. My brain just goes and goes. Thinking of all those things I didn’t finish that day, or topics I want to write about, or someone I was going to call and forgot. Nothing…… Continue reading Yahweh Can Use the Flawed and Broken