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5 Tips for Establishing Boundaries After an Adoption Reunion

5 Tips for Establishing Boundaries After an Adoption Reunion

We, as adoptees, did not choose to be adopted... but our adoption reunion gives us the opportunity to make our own choices about our adoption for the first time.

National Adoption Awareness Month 2017

National Adoption Awareness Month 2017

The first of November marks the beginning of National Adoption Month... but why should you care?

Two Words That Changed Everything

Two Words That Changed Everything

I got out my laptop and sat on a barstool in my kitchen, browsing Facebook and practicing the best self-control I could.  I have a little brother.  I typed in his name and a profile appeared of a teenager from my hometown.  Not just from my hometown, but from my high school.  I clicked on his page, and my jaw dropped

God, Master of Plot Twists

God, Master of Plot Twists

 I didn't walk into that radio station looking for a job.  I walked in there to talk about what God has called me to talk about: adoption and foster care.  I walked in there to bring awareness to Walk for the Waiting, and to start a conversation about the orphan crisis going on in our very own backyard.  And then, in walks God, opening exquisite doors like that's what He does or something.