It’s Explore Adoption Day in Florida
Today is Explore Adoption Day in Florida. Gov. Charlie Crist declared it so to celebrate families who've adopted from foster care and to encourage other families to consider it. From my little family's...
View ArticleFamily photo fiascos: Closed eyes, bad hair and a pint-sized caped crusader
I love to take photos, which often means I am not in them. My husband doesn't like to be photographed, so I take pictures mostly of the kids. We almost never get a family photo. In the last year, the...
View ArticleGrey’s star Katherine Heigl adopting baby from Korea
Looks like another Grey's Anatomy actress is going to join the mommy club: Katherine Heigl and her husband are adopting a 10-month-old girl from Korea, she said on the Ellen DeGeneres show. Heigl said...
View ArticleWorld AIDS Day, and an adoption story “you’ll never forget”
Today is World AIDS Day, an international event designed to raise awareness and money to combat AIDS and HIV. It's why Twitter has "gone red," changing the color of its homepage for the first time to...
View ArticleFoster care adoption (and being taken in by another Mom’s amazing heart)
Sometimes when you’re reading blogs, you stumble on one that just grabs you and makes you keep reading — clicking on this post and that, searching the archives — as you try to catch up with the...
View ArticleSandra Bullock adopts newborn son
Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock is the proud mother of a new son, according to reports. Louis Bardo Bullock, was born three and a half months ago in New Orleans. Bullock, 45, and her estranged...
View ArticleSingle parenting by choice
As a single parent, there are times when my hair isn’t washed for days on end and the dust bunnies under my couch decide to hibernate for the winter. Glamorous, I know. Getting to work and getting my...
View ArticleSheryl Crow adopts another baby
Grammy-winning singer Sheryl Crow says she’s adopted another baby. “Hey Everybody! I have some exciting news to share with you guys. Wyatt has a new little brother! Levi James was born April 30th,”...
View ArticleMy son wants me to adopt him
Peter My youngest son, Peter, met this little girl at a party who told him that she was special and unique because she was adopted. Her parents had picked her to be in their family. Lovely. Except...
View ArticleEnding shame and secrecy about infertility
via Redbook magazineEach year, thousands of American women seek medical attention after realizing that their efforts to conceive a child naturally have been unsuccessful. Many bear the scars of their...
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