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A Letter to My Daughter’s Other Mom
26 March 2018
We found her. Finally. After nearly 20 years and an international investigation, we found our daughter’s birth mom. So I’m sitting here on a Tuesday, at my desk, with paper and a pen and a view of the rainy Oregon foothills trying to decide what to say to a mama across the ocean. A mama in Vietnam who shares my child. A mama who’s waited and wondered and longed for news. A … Continue Reading “A Letter to My Daughter’s Other Mom”
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Why It’s Wrong to Ask Adoptive Families for Additional Proof of Adoption
CAUTION: I’ve got my Adoptive Mama panties in a bunch today. Buckle up, folks, ‘cause off we go!
The crux of the matter is this: it’s not okay for insurance companies in the United States of America to require adoptive families to provide adoption paperwork as proof of legal dependency when the family can provide a state-issued birth certificate, instead, which already lists the child’s adoptive parents as the legal parents, is infinitely more simple … Continue Reading “Why It’s Wrong to Ask Adoptive Families for Additional Proof of Adoption”
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Foster Mother: A Family and Imperfection Writing Contest Winning Entry by Dawn Reed
A Family and Imperfection Writing Contest
Winning EntryFoster Mother
by Dawn ReedIt has been four years since I witnessed the moment. Four years of considering its consequence. Four years of trying to describe the meeting with Trent’s foster mother, and the word that I keep returning to is “powerful”.
In the fall of 2009, my youngest son had expressed a desire to meet his “Korean mommy from the pictures” (his foster mother). After … Continue Reading “Foster Mother: A Family and Imperfection Writing Contest Winning Entry by Dawn Reed”
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Who Are You? A Family and Imperfection Writing Contest Winner by Lora Lyon
A Family and Imperfection Writing Contest
Winning EntryWho Are You?
by Lora LyonTwo years ago, a stranger walked in to our life.
Or, more correctly, we walked in to hers.
In a tiny office in Odessa, Ukraine I became a mother for the 5th time when a five-and-a-half year old girl with brown pigtails and big blue eyes regarded us cautiously, but with a hint of hope in her eyes. I remember … Continue Reading “Who Are You? A Family and Imperfection Writing Contest Winner by Lora Lyon”
