community and resource for families of special needs children from China
Trust is a funny thing. You kind of don’t notice it, until it is gone… or was never there. I think the sword and shield is the universal symbol for “I don’t trust you yet!” Me: Okay Ping, we have to run into my work for a second, then we will go home. Ping: Okay. [...]
Last Sunday we celebrated five years since our oldest child was placed in my arms in a hot room in southern China. That means that I’m precisely five years and six days into this glorious adventure called motherhood. The learning curve was vicious at first, but I’ve come a long way. I feel that I [...]
4 out of 5 arguments are started over Barbie Dolls… G: Daddy! DADDY! Ping is trying to take my barbie doll!Me: What? Ping, are you trying to take G’s doll?Ping: No!Me: Really? Because I see her doll in your hand.Ping: No!Me: Ping, I can see that you have G’s doll. Don’t lie to your Daddy.Ping: [...]
Today’s guest post is by our first contributor who isn’t a mama… he is a baba. Adrian is father to four children, his youngest daughter adopted from China, and blogs at Forever Family. ____________________________________________________________________ I know there are some stories of adoption out there, where the bonding between child and parent(s) is instant and wonderful! [...]
OK, I’ll jump in with both feet here. Attachment is hard work. There, I said it. Now that we have that (or rather now that I have it) on the table, I will just jump in with both feet. But first, a bit of housekeeping as I like to call it on my blog. No, [...]
A guest post, contributed by KJ Dell’Antonia (aka Lola Granola). KJDA is a writer (for numerous publications) and is mother to four children. Her youngest, Rory, was adopted from China in July 2009. She blogs about life at Raising Devils. It has been a rough trip, these last six or seven months, and there were [...]
This summer will mark the 5th and 4th anniversaries of our girls adoptions and, as of this writing, I’ve never spent one single night away from them. Okay, that’s not entirely true. I did spend the night at the hospital with Maddy when she had her surgery and Gwen stayed home with Daddy. It wasn’t [...]
I was scrolling back through the photos … photos I was given by someone, someone who cares about our daughter. I saw a detail I never noticed before. I think I have always stopped at her face. It says so much, too much for a little girl of 2 years old to understand. So much [...]
Six months after we came home from China with our first daughter (Gwen), someone on our Agency’s message board announced their 2nd referral: A cute baby with a beaming smile and a very minor cleft palate. A few days later, they updated to say that they’d refused the referral because she was only 2 weeks [...]
Kayla is a home school mom who loves to read, write, cook, and travel. She lives in East Asia with … [Read More...]
I remember seeing him on my friend’s blog. I emailed her about him and asked a couple … [Read More...]
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