The Adoption Option

[...] time of year for us. June 8th was Jesse's official Gotcha Day. We said good-bye to the Thai Red Cross and took him into our home forever. Yesterday marked the 2nd anniversary of this event! TWO [...]

[...] sound like a broken record here, but...once again I was reminded how lucky we are to have the Thai Red Cross as part of Jesse's adoption story. And how grateful we are to his birth mother for having a [...]

[...] . Jesse and his new girlfriend. Good thing we live fairly close! Jesse and his buddy - another Thai Red Cross kid! [...]

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[...] to read about me? My life? Feel free to chime in if there are still people out there - but this old blog might get some new life pretty soon. [...]

[...] who have now become my friends. I don't think anyone will be making a movie out of this old blog of mine, but I think I served a good purpose by telling my story and helping others navigate [...]

[...] bid farewell this fine blog. This website was started to share my experiences in the adoption process and gain support during a time in my life I felt very along and isolated. It has [...]

[...] removed from. I started this blog as an outlet for the emotional ups and downs of the adoption process. A way to get the thoughts out of my head without having to verbally inflict them on [...]

[...] - Watching Jesse interact with families that looked like ours was priceless. There were Thai kids, white kids, Chinese kids, and a Guatemalan kid....there were birth siblings, adopted [...]

[...] know what we want to do just haven't actually booked anything. And I'm still working on the Thai Family Reunion - hope those registration forms start coming in soon! Jesse is all registered for [...]

[...] , I'm not sure everyone out there knew about my planning this giant event called the Thai Family Reunion. It's a weekend held every other year for families with children from Thailand. Each [...]

[...] hear about our progress and the struggles and then to finally witness our successes. But our adoption journey is over. Now I'm just a mom of two boys - I have ups and downs and wishes and hopes but do [...]

[...] world and allowing me to in turn support them during their adoption processes. However - my adoption journey is over. And although, I have little doubt that my friends would still be interested in my [...]

So, since I don't blog very often, I'm not sure everyone out there knew about my planning this giant event called the Thai Family Reunion. It's a week [...]

[...] really happened). And watching Jesse....although in all honesty I was so busy most of the weekend Courtney and Jim did a lot of Jesse watching for me!....jeez nice parenting right?.....anyway - [...]

[...] And I thought last year was bad..... Tomorrow Ian will start 1st grade. I can't believe he's old enough to be a big kid, staying in school all [...]