I'm glad you are here!

Welcome! – we’re both here - finally! I have had this blog on a mental to-do list for a l-o-n-g time now mainly because while I know there are a lot of blogs out there on adoption, I’ve feel compelled to share our story and the resources we’ve found helpful. As the days go by I find myself finding more and more good resources that I believe others can use. Looking back, I wish there had been someone who could have helped us along the way in our adoption journey - on different topics I plan on blogging about.


We chose adoption literally because it kept coming up again and again in conversation and in circumstance. We had friends who’d adopted their daughter, another friend was adopted at a week old and two of my husband’s colleagues adopted as well. Really, adoption was a reoccurring conversation in our house. We made an appointment with a local agency and went into the meeting prepared to leave our application if we felt comfortable doing so. We did. We left hopeful and excited about what was to come. A few bumps and more hoops than we’d ever expected, we came home with our daughter (an older child adoption) September 25, 2008. I remember driving her to our home after picking her up at her foster parents’ home, and I wanted to shout at the top of my lungs, “We’re your new parents, I am your mom… We love you! Things are going to be ok!” Things were ok, but it wasn’t as smooth as I could have hoped (we had extreme highs and extreme lows), but in the end – and our story is still going – M is teaching us more than we’d ever expected. In many ways she is impacting us more than we are her. Ultimately though, we are all learning from one another.

So, come along! Join me on our journey from here and I promise to share the resources we found helpful and I hope that in return, you will share things you’ve found helpful and together we can make a difference in a child's life.

Abby


NW Adoptive Mom

PS

Oh, and to help you through the week, I am going to be posting Misms (after our daughter), telling some of her more humorous moments…let’s talk again soon.