Our Adoption Adventure

Are you considering stepping out into the world of adoption?  Here are the posts I’ve written over the years, telling how we ended up adopting six kids when we already had four by birth, along with thoughts about issues we and other families face along the adoption journey.

Our Adoption Story

• 1998, 2000 Our boys from Korea  Our first son | Our second son
• 2004-2005 Our little girls from Ethiopia  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
• 2007 Our older girls from Ethiopia Prologue | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4| Part 5 | Part 6
• 2009 Korea Homeland Trip  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9

Money Issues

• Adoption: How we afforded it (No, we’re not rich!)

Attachment and Behavior Issues

• What to do when your baby is anxious
• Helping adopted children attach (notes from a Karyn Purvis seminar)
• Real Hope for Healing (notes from a Karyn Purvis seminar)
• Parenting Hurt Kids
• Keeping the good moments good
• When loving is hard
• Shades of Grey
• Parenting:  Hard Stuff
• Homes of the Broken
• New Every Morning

Life with Adopted Kids

• How adoption affects siblings
• Homeschooling newly adopted kids
• Homeschooling kids for whom English is a second language
• Adoptive Breastfeeding, Part 1
• Adoptive Breastfeeding, Part 2
• The Truth about HIV

Christians and the Adoption Movement

• James 1:27 and the Church
• Adoption and Faith (John Piper)