“God has never let me down,” says Jen Bricker in her new book Everything is Possible. Anytime I become discouraged or faced with an overwhelming trial, all I have to do is look back through my life to see how He has brought me through countless trials and tribulations…
Pursuing the Giver instead of the gift. Being thankful for His Presence, not just His presents. Happy Thanksgiving!
Have you ever felt like you were being suffocated or crushed by the emotions you face concerning unanswered prayer? Need to see a light at the tunnel’s end?
“MOM. THANK YOU FOR NEVER GIVING UP ON ME!” This phrase and two encouraging verses might be just what you need to hear today if you are parenting a child who is discouraged, broken hearted, grieving, or suffering from RAD or FASD.
Happy Becoming Family Day! See also: Our Journey — Nine Year Pregnancy
Two days ago the daily prompt “The Heat is On” intrigued me. It even mentioned depicting pressure. Most of us do not wish to be seen as weak or “giving up” when things become more challenging. We want to persevere. There are times in our lives that we face big trials, times when we do…
One of my kids’ favorite books growing up was the story of little nut brown hare in Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram. Today’s daily prompt, Come Fly with Me, reminded me of two things: 1) That story and (2)The story of my daughter. The prompt suggests sharing a…
Handbook on Thriving as an Adoptive Family by David and Renee Sanford. The chapter headings are: Welcome Home, Attachment and Bonding, Sibling and Extended Family Relationships, Developing a Support Network, Nurture and Discipline, Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers, Elementary Age and Middle Childhood, Adolescence, Loss and Grief, Ethnic Identity, Early Childhood Trauma, Sexual Abuse, Drug and Alcohol Effects, Physical Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, When an Adoption Disrupts or Dissolves.
A poem / prose about fathers and daughters written from the perspective of an adopted girl to her dad.
“Mom, are we there yet?” If you are a mom of a child of speaking age, you have probably heard this more than you can count. I know about long journeys all too well. I’ve been on really long trans-Atlantic flights. I’ve taken cross-country road trips lasting a couple of weeks. I’ve been on ferryboats…
nspired by the poem “I Like You” by Sandol Stoddard Warburg, I wrote this poem collaborating with my daughter, told as if she were speaking to me. After reading it together, she hugged me and said the part that is now the last stanza of this poem. My high-school English teacher introduced me to the poem “I Like You,” which is now available as a book.
Many well-meaning people ask adoptive mothers if the child who does not resemble them is their “real” child. From time-to-time an adopted child will even say to his/her mother, “You’re not my REAL Mother!” By real both mean biological. With Mother’s Day weekend approaching, my daughter and I chose fun books from the library on mothers. I chose to review one of them–the one about adoptive mothers. You’re Not My REAL Mother! by Molly Friedrich
By Delana H. Stewart “Who is this person I call Mom and why doesn’t she look like me?” Here is an excerpt from an article I wrote last Mother’s Day about why Mother’s Day can be a difficult season for the adoptee (and her family). You can read the full article by clicking here. Our…
See also: An Adoption Bundle
Jessie suffered from Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and does an excellent job of helping readers get inside the head of a child who has suffered RAD. Parents or foster-carers or teachers who work with kids who are or have been in foster care or orphanages will benefit from reading this book. He addresses many issues, such as: abandonment, grief, longing for a parent to return, reuniting with biological parents, anger, manipulation, bedwetting, lying, stealing, fear, loneliness, cutting, destroying things, and so much more.
–Delana H. Stewart If you read the title with no inflection, it sounds like the phrase, “What’re you waiting for, let’s go!” But this is “What are you WAITING for?” More than a year ago, I wrote a post called “A Season of Waiting.” In it, I wrote of persisting in prayer and a particular…
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If you have friends or family members who are going through the adoption process, here are some of the best things you can do for them…
If you know someone in the adoption process, or if you are adopting (or have recently adopted) check out my Nine Year Pregnancy blog as I have just introduced an adoption journal that will make a great Valentine gift! http://nineyearpregnancy.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/unique-adoption-journal/ Want a Free Copy? Enter a contest Feb 5-14, 2013 to win a free copy…
Adoptees want their adoptive parents to prepare by…
The Magi waited for the coming Messiah and followed the star. We waited for a little girl and followed our hearts. After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the…
Today is National Adoption Awareness Day and November is National Adoption Awareness month. As a part of this emphasis, I joined over 100 other bloggers in the 2012 Adoption Blogger Interview Project hosted by the blog Production, Not Reproduction. Check out my interview of fellow adoption blogger Erin Polis on my Nine Year Pregnancy blog…
A special emphasis is given in many churches on the need to adopt children. I have adopted a child, and I do believe that adoption can be a wonderful way to start or add to your family. But, there are reasons why you should adopt and reasons why you should not adopt.
Adoption Today’s Daily Prompt: Pick a random word and do Google image search on it. Check out the eleventh picture it brings up. Write about whatever that image brings to mind. The eleventh picture Google images brought up perfectly tells a story in imagery that I told with words in my book Nine Year…
If you are in the adoption process or have adopted, or if you know someone who has adopted, they may be interested in submitting their story to my Nine Year Pregnancy blog. I am also interested in the stories of adult adoptees who have a story to share about waiting for a reunion or a…
